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    • Vera May Atkins CBE (15 June 1908 – 24 June 2000) 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. See more

    Early life

    Atkins was born Vera May Rosenberg in Galați, Kingdom of Romania, to Max Rosenberg (d. 1932), a German-Jewish father, … See more

    First missions of the Second World War

    The Polish Cipher Bureau broke Germany's Enigma ciphers from 1932 on, using Enigma-machine reconstructions which they also gave to their British and French allies, following a July 1939 Warsaw conference at which they … See more

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    BornVera May Rosenberg · 15 June 1908 · Galați, Kingdom of Romania
    Died24 June 2000 (aged 92) · Hastings, Sussex, England
    Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
    RelativesRudolf Vrba (cousin)
    Special Operations Executive (SOE)

    Though not a British national, in February 1941 Atkins joined the French section of the SOE as a secretary. She was soon made assistant to section head Colonel Maurice Buckmaster, and became a de facto intelligenc… See more

    Controversy

    Controversy has lasted in certain circles as to how and why clues that one of F section's main spy networks had been penetrated by the Germans were not picked up, and Buckmaster and Atkins failed to pul… See more

    Search for F Section's missing agents

    After the liberation of France and the allied victory in Europe, Atkins went to both France, and later to Germany for four days, where she was determined to uncover the fates of the fifty-one still unaccounted for F Section agents, … See more

    After the Second World War

    Atkins was demobilised in 1947, and although nominated for an MBE, was not awarded a decoration in the postwar honours lists.
    Atkins went to work for UNESCO's Central Bureau for … See more

    Honours and decorations

    Atkins was appointed CBE in the 1997 Birthday Honours. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1948 and made a Knight of the Legion of Honour by the French government in 1987.
    In 2022, a … See more

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