True story behind Red Joan - the KGB spy who leaked British secrets for 40 years
Norwood was the most important British female agent in the whole of the KGB's history as well as the longest-serving of all the Soviet spies in Britain.
Her KGB file gave her a glowing review calling her "committed, reliable and disciplined agent, striving to be of the utmost assistance.
"She handed over a very large number of documents of a scientific and technical nature, and these found practical application."
But what Melita exactly did is up for debate.
The how is known, the what is mostly conjecture, which makes Judi Dench's film a controversial adaptation - it opts for a more romantic take on the tale that has been called everything from "preposterous" to "inaccurate".
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