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July 25, 2009
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Spies like them
The fiction created a romanticism around spies which attracted many people to work for the service.
Among them was Daphne Park, who joined in the 1940s and rose to become a controller at MI6.
"I suppose it did start with reading [Rudyard Kipling's] Kim, reading John Buchan and reading Sapper and Bulldog Drummond and I think from a quite early age I did want to go into intelligence. I didn't know what kind or how it would be. But I always wanted it."
As well as attracting individuals to sign up for desk jobs, the daring antics of fictional spies also helped MI6 in its core work of recruiting agents - people willing to spy for the service and pass on secrets.
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Spies like them
Posted by thdyck on July 25, 2009
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