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[Austin Powers] Why did the Agency employ Vanessa (much less assign her to work with Austin Powers) if they knew she was a Fembot?

Was her mother also a Fembot?
gpt
The original Vanessa was not a fembot, but she was tragically killed in a prior mission.  The agency had captured some previous fembots and attempted to reprogram them similiar to how John Connor did to the Terminator. She functioned extremely well in the field (obviously, she was a Fembot) and was programmed to be the perfect agent.

Unfortunately, there was something that the Agency didn't count on...Austin's Mojo.  His Mojo was so powerful that it shorted some of Vanessa's circuits which caused her system to reject the newer program and revert to it's "Kill" programming.