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On January 3 this year, all of six weeks ago, I wrote a feature on the US spies at the Croughton airbase in Northamptonshire.
In the article I wrote about Anne Sacoolas, the woman who driving on the wrong side of the road when she knocked 19-year-old Harry Dunn off his motorbike and killed him.
What I actually said about Anne Sacoolas was this: “It isn’t even known if she is just a family member. Local speculation on and off the base suggests she might have been just as much of a spook as her husband.”
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