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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.
Oct 6, 2021 · A Romanian-born Jew who became a British intelligence officer, Vera May Atkins recruited 400 spies for the Special Operations Executive between 1941 and 1945. Known also for her tenderness, Vera Atkins reportedly accompanied each of her agents in person when they left for their perilous missions.
Jan 9, 2006 · Vera Atkins may have covered up her own past and tried to do the same for some of SOE's failures. But she ensured that a small band of exceptionally brave women were not forgotten. For that she deserves a biography as good as this.
Jun 27, 2000 · Vera Atkins, who recruited, trained and watched over the legendary British secret agents who parachuted into France to sabotage the Nazis in World War II, died on Saturday in...
Oct 2, 2020 · 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 adopted her mother’s maiden name.
The Romanian-born Vera Atkins (Stana Katic) worked for the British Special Operations Executive, known as Churchill’s Secret Army, recruiting women agents at a time when that was a novel...
But in Spymistress, the hitherto unknown Vera Atkins, a covert operations officer, got the sole role, in fact the starring role, in the grand encounter. She took him over.
