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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 ...
Short film about Vera Atkins, Intelligence Officer with Special Operations Executive, during World War II. She was involved deeply in the secret work of inserting secret agents into Occupied France, and was particularly responsible for the welfare of the female agents - her 'girls'. Using original sound recordings of an interview with Vera ...
When Vera Atkins died in 2000, her family made all of her papers available to Sarah Helm, an investigative journalist who in 2005 produced an exhaustively researched biography which also benefited from the release of hitherto classified documents. It left little for scholars to discover although much for them to discuss.
20 de oct. de 2023 · Vera Atkins was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer during the Second World War. Throughout the war, Atkins had recruited and trained hundreds of secret agents to fight the Nazis for Britain’s Special Operations Executive. Atkins was known for being tough and showed little emotion. She was also very caring about her recruits.
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.
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.
