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The [[Special Operations Executive]] (SOE) was a British agency operating during the Second World War, with responsibility for 'special operations' including psychological warfare, assassinations and paramilitary activities.<ref>Stephen Dorril, MI6, Touchstone 2002, p.103.</ref>
 
The [[Special Operations Executive]] (SOE) was a British agency operating during the Second World War, with responsibility for 'special operations' including psychological warfare, assassinations and paramilitary activities.<ref>Stephen Dorril, MI6, Touchstone 2002, p.103.</ref>
  
SOE was established in in July 1940 by consolidating [[Section D]] of [[MI6]] with [[MI R]], a War Office guerrilla warfare research group and a covert propaganda unit, [[Department EH]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44, Brassey's, 1999, p.13.</ref>
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SOE was established in in July 1940 by consolidating [[Section D]] of [[MI6]] with [[Military Intelligence Research|MI R]], a War Office guerrilla warfare research group and a covert propaganda unit, [[Department EH]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44, Brassey's, 1999, p.13.</ref>
  
 
Initially, SOE had three sections, [[SO.1 (SOE)|SO.1]] for propaganda, [[SO.2]] for dirty tricks, and [[SO.3]] for planning. A year later SO.1 was separated to become the [[Political Warfare Executive]] under [[Rex Leeper]] and [[Robert Bruce Lockhart]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44, Brassey's, 1999, p.13</ref>
 
Initially, SOE had three sections, [[SO.1 (SOE)|SO.1]] for propaganda, [[SO.2]] for dirty tricks, and [[SO.3]] for planning. A year later SO.1 was separated to become the [[Political Warfare Executive]] under [[Rex Leeper]] and [[Robert Bruce Lockhart]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44, Brassey's, 1999, p.13</ref>
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==People==
 
==People==
*[[Colin Gubbins]] - Executive Director
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===Executive Officers (CD)===
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*[[Gladwyn Jebb]] - 1941-42
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*Sir [[Frank Nelson]]
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*Sir [[Charles Jocelyn Hambro|Charles Hambro]]
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*[[Colin Gubbins]] 1943-46
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==Resources==
 
==Resources==
 
*[http://www.64-baker-street.org/ 64 Baker Street] Website on 'The Women of the Special Operations Executive', accessed 30 March 2009.
 
*[http://www.64-baker-street.org/ 64 Baker Street] Website on 'The Women of the Special Operations Executive', accessed 30 March 2009.
 
*Spartacus Educational [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWsoe.htm Special Operations Executive], accessed 30 March 2009
 
*Spartacus Educational [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWsoe.htm Special Operations Executive], accessed 30 March 2009
 
*Obituaries, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/SOE/ Special Operations Executive], The Times
 
*Obituaries, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/SOE/ Special Operations Executive], The Times
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*National Archives [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/new_releases_feb2002_SOE_recs.pdf Special Operations Executive Records Release 8th Feb 2002 (pdf)]
  
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 19:38, 24 April 2010

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British agency operating during the Second World War, with responsibility for 'special operations' including psychological warfare, assassinations and paramilitary activities.[1]

SOE was established in in July 1940 by consolidating Section D of MI6 with MI R, a War Office guerrilla warfare research group and a covert propaganda unit, Department EH.[2]

Initially, SOE had three sections, SO.1 for propaganda, SO.2 for dirty tricks, and SO.3 for planning. A year later SO.1 was separated to become the Political Warfare Executive under Rex Leeper and Robert Bruce Lockhart.[3]


People

Executive Officers (CD)

Resources

Notes

  1. Stephen Dorril, MI6, Touchstone 2002, p.103.
  2. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44, Brassey's, 1999, p.13.
  3. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44, Brassey's, 1999, p.13