THEY are best known for getting badges for embroidery, baking or helping the elderly. Working as an undercover spy is probably the last thing you would expect of a Girl Guide.

But now The Sun, in England, can reveal a top-secret document which proves that 90 teenage Guides became spooks working for security service MI5 in the First World War.



It explains in astonishing detail their working conditions, responsibilities, qualifications and pay scales.



All the girls who worked for MI5 between 1914 and 1918 were aged from 14 to 16. Their main role was as 50p-a-week messengers passing on highly classified information.



The teenagers were so trusted by MI5 bosses that they were allowed to relay some of the messages verbally.



At the start of the war Boy Scouts were also used. But it quickly became clear that Girl Guides were more efficient because they were less boisterous and talkative.



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