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b'Britain\\u2019s Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, is James Bond\\u2019s home agency and one of the world\\u2019s most secretive organizations. The British government did not even admit that it existed until the 1990s. Yet, in connection with its centennial year, the service has commissioned an outside scholar to write an official history of its first forty years. Peter chats with Professor Keith Jeffery, the only outsider who has ever seen the MI6 archives and given their penchant for secrecy perhaps the only one who ever will in our lifetimes. Drawing on his new book, The Secret History of MI6, 1909-1949, Professor Jeffery shares \\u201chow it actually was and how it\\u2019s actually done.'