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How did spies get messages home?
These days you think of electronic messaging -- instant messaging. But in the past, there were other ways of passing information of course - and some of them were rather clever.
Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller commissioned our security correspondent Gordon Corera to look at the role pigeons played in carrying intelligence in the World War II. His research started at her former family home.
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