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   Died. 24 June 2000. (2000-06-24) (aged 92) Hastings, Sussex, England. Occupation. SOE F Section intelligence officer. Vera May Atkins CBE (15 June 1908 – 24 June 2000) [1] was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who worked in the France Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War .

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3. allthatsinteresting.com › vera-atkinsVera Atkins, The Spymaster Who Inspired James Bond’s Moneypenny

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   Oct 6, 2021 · Vera Atkins was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who recruited and trained hundreds of secret agents to fight the Nazis in World War II. She also tracked down and honored her missing agents after the war, and influenced the character of Moneypenny in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.

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   Oct 2, 2020 · How Vera Atkins rose the ranks of the SOE Stana Katic as Vera Atkins in 'A Call to Spy' Courtesy of IFC Films. Born Vera Maria Rosenberg in 1908 in Romania, Atkins moved to London in 1933 and ...

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2000/06/27 › worldVera Atkins, 92, Spymaster for British, Dies - The New York Times

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   Jun 27, 2000 · Ms. Atkins was born Vera Maria Rosenberg in Bucharest, Romania, and went to London with her parents in 1933, where she adopted her mother's last name. She studied modern languages at the Sorbonne ...

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   Vera Atkins was born in Romania in 1908 and died in 2000. Her father, Max Rosenberg, was a German-Jewish businessman. Her father, Max Rosenberg, was a German-Jewish businessman. Her mother's family were of East European Jewish origin who had emigrated via London to South Africa .

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   Dec 4, 2007 · Paperback – December 4, 2007. by Sarah Helm (Author) 4.4 1,197 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...

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   Who was Vera Atkins?

   • "Vera Atkins, 92, Spymaster for British, Dies". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 12 August 2021. ^ BBC: Cold Supper. ^ MacNeal 2017, pp. 297–298. ^ Faulder 2020. Binney, Marcus (2002). The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE (1st ed.). London: Coronet Books. ISBN 978-034081840-4. "A Cold Supper behind Harrods".

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   What happened to Vera Atkins?

   • 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.

   Vera Atkins: Incredibly Brave British SOE Squadron Officer of World War

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   What was Vera Atkins contribution to SOE?

   • But Vera Atkins' most notable contribution to SOE came after it was disbanded. Alone, and against the initial opposition of the Foreign Office, MI6 and the War Office, she sought to discover what had happened to the over 100 SOE agents who were still missing.

   A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

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   Why did Vera Atkins leave the SOE?

   • Atkins worked with the SOE until the end of the war. Even though Winston Churchill strongly supported the organization, when he was replaced as prime minister in 1945, it was disbanded. The loss of so many agents during the war haunted Vera Atkins for years. “I could not just abandon their memory,” she later said.

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    Dec 16, 2017 · Vera Atkins was a secretary who became a key member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II. She helped send agents into occupied France, interrogated Nazi war criminals, and fought for the recognition of the SOE agents who died.