The girl next door who became a spy

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Carol Loo slipped into uniform and helped rewrite Malaysia’s counter‑insurgency playbook.   Read More:  https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/2025/06/10/the-girl-next-door-who-became-a-spy   Free Malaysia Today is an independent, bi-lingual news portal with a focus on Malaysian current affairs.    Subscribe to our channel - http://bit.ly/2Qo08ry   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Check us out at https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com  Follow FMT on Facebook: https://bit.ly/49JJoo5  Follow FMT on Dailymotion: https://bit.ly/2WGITHM  Follow FMT on X: https://bit.ly/48zARSW  Follow FMT on Instagram: https://bit.ly/48Cq76h  Follow FMT on TikTok : https://bit.ly/3uKuQFp  Follow FMT Berita on TikTok: https://bit.ly/48vpnQG  Follow FMT Telegram - https://bit.ly/42VyzMX  Follow FMT LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/42YytEb  Follow FMT Lifestyle on Instagram: https://bit.ly/42WrsUj  Follow FMT on WhatsApp: https://bit.ly/49GMbxW  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Download FMT News App:  Google Play – http://bit.ly/2YSuV46  App Store – https://apple.co/2HNH7gZ  Huawei AppGallery - https://bit.ly/2D2OpNP   #FMTLifestyle #CarolLooLeeFum #FemaleCadets #FirstBatch

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00:00Born into a conservative family, Carol Lulifum was the very image of the girl next door, demure,

00:09studious and dutiful until she defied expectations. At just 20 years old, she secretly applied to

00:17join the Army's first batch of female cadets, hiding it from her family, a bold move that would

00:23eventually reshape the role of women in Malaysia's armed forces. Reversing her surname Lou and

00:30transforming it into 007, Carol embraced the symbol not as a frivolous nickname, but as

00:36a reminder of the precision and resourcefulness required in her secret military role.

00:43While James Bond's world walled around glitzy casinos and high-speed chases, Carol's missions

00:49targeted communist guerrillas in the 1970s and 80s. Barred from frontlines, she worked

00:55behind the scenes to gather, analyze and interpret intelligence on the Communist Party of Malaya,

01:01working closely with police and military officers. This is where her fluency in multiple languages

01:08enable her to cultivate informants within Chinese-speaking communities, including those that sometimes

01:13harbored CPM sympathizers.

01:17On top of this, one of Carol's many achievements was becoming the first female officer and first

01:22intelligence officer to serve in the Armed Forces Defense Operations Room, where she supported

01:27Malbec 7 in Bosnia and Herzegovina with real-time intelligence during UN peacekeeping missions.

01:35Promoted from major in the early 1990s to lefton colonel in 2000, Carol later commanded an

01:41intelligence detachment in the Ministry of Defense before retiring in 2008 after 31 years

01:47of trailblazing service.

01:49Narmtharajah, FMT

01:51Narmtharajah, FMT

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