This movie was very loosely based on Melita Norwood (the real Red Joan), who was the Soviet Union's longest-serving British spy, having done so for nearly four decades. As a longtime member of the Communist party and a secretary for the Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association in London (which was actually part of a secret nuclear weapons research project with the U.S. called "Tube Alloy"), Norwood copied nuclear secrets from her bosses' office and transmitted them to Moscow. Unlike what the movie's implications, she was a spy from World War II through the Cold War, retiring in the early 1970s, and in 1979 she traveled to Moscow to receive the Soviet Union's Order of the Red Banner.

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