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She could have left with the Polish armed forces.

Many of the women did, but Zoe decided that she could most effectively serve her country by remaining inside Poland and helping to set up the fledgling Polish resistance.

Welcome to True Spies, Tradecraft, Part 1.

You could feel like this paper was almost burning a hole in his chest.

Just the magnitude of the information that he was being given was pretty dramatic.

In this episode of True Spies, we're looking at some of the best examples of Tradecraft

to have graced our series this year.

As regular listeners will know, tradecraft refers to the techniques, methods and technologies

used in espionage. So let's begin with something classic, gadgets.

We've all grown up on the James Bond films, Fleming's novels. We love it.

And I just assumed he had a really colourful imagination. But, you know, when you start diving into the MI9 files, you think Ian Fleming has actually drawn on real-life events.

This is Helen Fry, an intelligence historian and author of MI9,

a history of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War II.

She was our guide in the true spy's double-header, MI9 Unmasked.

We're all familiar with Q, the cantankerous quartermaster for James Bond's MI6,

always handy with an invisible car or an exploding pen.

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