Special Operations Executive: Difference between revisions

In a way the SOE's experience of [[World War II]] was closer to the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] image then that of the rest of British intelligence, for they were expected to look for trouble more often and, it being wartime and all, they really did have a Licence to Kill. Aside from normal [[Jurisdiction Friction]] that could cause a headache as the MI6 could be working on an op for a long time and then the SOE would blow something up and lure cops to the neighborhood forcing everyone underground. However their somewhat more cinematic image very few even of the SOE had eighty women in a two hour movie (given that a lot of them, the radio-operators particularity, ''were'' women that would have been even cooler) or engaged in car chases that destroyed two dozen cars on a regular basis. And it is not clear that many SOE agents would have worried about whether their drink was shaken or stirred. Sometimes [[Real Life]] can be boring.

 

 

After [[World War II]] the SOE was abolished and its resources were absorbed by the main body of [[MI 6]].