The following list of forty-one agents is taken from M.R.D. Thirty-nine female SOE agents were trained in Britain. Of that number, "A few highly accomplished and gallant were agents operating in France or Yugoslavia." Foot cautioned that "On these few there is a large popular literature, almost all of it worthless and much of it about the wrong people." The declassification of SOE documents beginning in the 1990s permitted more accurate assessments of agents and their accomplishments.įemale SOE F Section agents in France Įstimates of the number of F Section female agents vary. Foot, said that the staff of SOE consisted of about 10,000 men and 3,000 women. In 1981, the official historian of the SOE, Michael R. Most of SOE's female agents worked in France. SOE's objectives were to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe (and later, also in occupied Southeast Asia) against the Axis powers, and to aid local resistance movements. The following is a list of female agents who served in the field for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II.
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