About Julia Pirie
Elizabeth Mary Julia Pirie is best known as a British spy who worked for MI5 from the 1950s through her retirement in the 1990s. She was known to her family as Elizabeth, but as Julia by her MI5 colleagues. She was initially recruited to spy on the Communist Party of Great Britain. The Communist Party's relevance had dwindled significantly by 1978 and she was withdrawn from her role there and assigned to other roles by MI5. Pirie was with the first Allied soldiers going into the Nazi's Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which had a profound effect on her. Pirie also joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY).
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