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    Vera May Atkins CBE (15 June 1908 – 24 June 2000) was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who worked in the France Section of the Special Operations...
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  • economist Vera Atkins (1908–2000), Romanian-born British intelligence officer during World War II Vera Baboun (born 1964), Palestinian politician Vera Baeva...
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    the AXN series Absentia that premiered in 2017. In 2019, she played Vera Atkins in A Call to Spy, the film is inspired by the stories of three women...
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    A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII. New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-1-4000-3140-5. Documents Atkins' post-war search for...
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  • F Section; Vera Atkins was his assistant and the section's intelligence officer, with special responsibility for female agents. Vera Atkins, Odette Sansom...
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    Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII. New York City: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-1-4000-3140-5. Documents Atkins' post-war search for...
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    February 1944. On 24 January 1944, Szabo made her will, witnessed by Vera Atkins and Major R. A. Bourne Paterson of SOE, naming her mother, Reine, as...
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    "AnnaSophia Robb Cast In 'Words On Bathroom Walls'; Richie Stephens Joins Vera Atkins Biopic". Deadline. Retrieved April 12, 2024. Billington, Alex (May 17...
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  • first book A Life in Secrets, detailing the life of the secret agent Vera Atkins, was published in 2005. On completing her English studies at the University...
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  • less obvious. Other candidates for Moneypenny's inspiration include Vera Atkins of Special Operations Executive; Paddy Ridsdale, a Naval Intelligence...
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    academic subjects. Le Manoir, in Lausanne, educated British secret agent Vera Atkins (1908–2000) and a sister of the king of the Albanians. It had a private...
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    Straub was sentenced to 13 years in prison. In spite of the efforts of Vera Atkins (F Section's intelligence officer during the war), Olschanezky is not...
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  • mission: conduct sabotage and build a resistance. SOE's "spymistress," Vera Atkins, recruits two unusual candidates: Virginia Hall, an ambitious American...
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  • Agency/Organization/Service Motojiro Akashi 1904  Japan Akashi Kikan Vera Atkins 1944  United Kingdom Special Operations Executive Lavrentiy Beria 1938...
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  • Stevenson. At F Section, Buckmaster worked closely with his assistant Vera Atkins, who was also the section's intelligence officer and a spy mistress....
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    September 1939, British Military Mission 4, which included Colin Gubbins and Vera Atkins, went to Poland, intending to evacuate cipher-breakers Marian Rejewski...
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    had known Skarbek, called her the "bravest of the brave." Spymaster Vera Atkins of the SOE described Skarbek as "very brave, very attractive, but a loner...
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    Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII. New York City: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-1-4000-3140-5. Documents Atkins' post-war search for...
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  • Anton Lesser played code maker Leo Marks and Stephanie Cole played Vera Atkins. Williams, Simon, ed. (2 December 2016). "They're behind you...". RAF...
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  • called the Air Ministry and the duty officer arranged for Vera Atkins to meet her. Atkins then took her home to her father at Brockwell Park. She was...
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  • Kieffer might have been answered by SOE's Vera Atkins, who interviewed Kieffer while he was imprisoned. Atkins was uncustomarily vague about what Kieffer...
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  • ISBN 978-1-85532-526-5. Helm, Sarah (2005). A Life in Secrets: the story of Vera Atkins and the lost agents of SOE. London: Little, Brown and Co. ISBN 0-316-72497-1...
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    A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII. New York, US: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-1-4000-3140-5. Documents Atkins' post-war search for...
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    where they were met by Henri Dericourt. The assistant F Section Head, Vera Atkins, worried about Lefort's poor French accent and Rowden's English looks...
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    Enciclopedică, 1986 p. 39. Stevenson, William (2007). Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II. New York: Arcade Publishing...
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  • and hundreds of their French associates. In fall 1946, SOE spymaster Vera Atkins interviewed Dr. Josef Goetz, formerly an SD officer in Paris and now...
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    Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II. New York City: Arcade Publishing. ISBN 978-1-55970-763-3. Overview of Atkins' activity...
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  • and real events in SOE. It featured David Jason, and Stephanie Cole as Vera Atkins. One of Marks's first challenges was to phase out double transposition...
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    Zennor (died 1888). Special Operations Executive intelligence officer Vera Atkins was cremated after her death and the ashes scattered in the churchyard...
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  • University of London 1949–1962, where his best friend was Guy Atkins (the brother of Vera Atkins), also a scholar of African languages. Another friend and...
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