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LONDON \u2014 Q is becoming C.<\/p>\n

The head of technology and innovation at Britain’s MI6 foreign intelligence agency \u2014 the real-life equivalent of James Bond’s<\/a> gadget-master Q \u2014 has been promoted to the country’s top spy job.<\/p>\n

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And for the first time in the agency’s 116-year history, the MI6 chief \u2014 codename C \u2014 will be a woman.<\/p>\n

It’s a milestone that’s already happened on the silver screen, when Judi Dench played the MI6 chief in several Bond films. (Though her character was known as M, rather than C.)<\/p>\n

Now, real life is catching up with fiction. In a statement late Sunday<\/a>, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that Blaise Metreweli \u2014 the first-ever female MI6 chief \u2014 will assume her new role in the autumn, succeeding Richard Moore, who is retiring.<\/p>\n