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În 1947, după moartea mamei ei, Vera Atkins s-a retras din serviciul activ al intelligence-ului britanic și a lucrat pentru UNESCO, mai întâi ca office manager și apoi ca directoare. În 1961, când a ieșit la pensie, s-a stabilit într-un sat din Anglia. A murit pe 24 iunie 2000, la vârsta de 92 de ani, într-un spital din Hastings ...
From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France.
20 de nov. de 2017 · The real-life drama will center on Vera Atkins, the British intelligence officer who recruited for Winston Churchill and oversaw the secret agents who parachuted into France to sabotage the Nazis.
16 de dic. de 2017 · In 1940 she traveled to the Netherlands with money to bribe an Officer from the German military intelligence or Abwehr. Squadron Officer Vera Atkins in 1946. Her cousin was anxious to escape German-occupied Romania and needed a passport. With help from the Belgian resistance, she got her cousin out and made her way back to Britain.
12 de abr. de 2022 · Vera Atkins, la espía británica. Vera Atkins nació en Rumania el 16 de junio de 1908 y falleció en el año 2000. Fue hija de padre judío alemán y madre británica.
Once rumored to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s Miss Moneypenny, Vera Atkins climbed her way to the top in the Special Operations Executive, or SOE: Britain’s secret service created to help build up, organize, and arm the resistance in the Nazi-occupied countries. Throughout the war, Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored the agents for the SOE’s French Section, which sent ...
Vera Atkins, who never married, covered her life in mystery so that even her closest family knew almost nothing of her past. In A LIFE IN SECRETS Sarah Helm has stripped away Vera's many veils and -- with unprecedented access to official and private papers, and the cooperation of Vera's relatives -- vividly reconstructed an extraordinary life.
