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Following the French campaign of 1940, the Special Operations Executive, a [[Spin
Nicknamed, not inaccurately, the "Ministry of Ungentlemenly Warfare", the SOE conducted espionage and sabotage throughout [[World War II]], as well as smuggling supplies to [[La Résistance]] and providing British emisaries to the various [[Rebel Leader|rebel leaders]].
In a way the SOE's experience of [[World War II]] was closer to the [[James Bond (
The SOE was headquartered in London 64 Baker Street (nicknamed the "Baker Street Irregulars") with dozens of training camps throughout the U.K. plus facilities in Singapore, Haifa, and Canada.
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After [[World War II]] the SOE was abolished and its resources were absorbed by the main body of [[MI 6]].
▲=== Appearances of SOE in fiction: ===
== Literature ==
* [[The Laundry Series|The Laundry]] is (in its universe) the only part of SOE that survived, which is only part of why relationships with [[MI 6]] are strained at best.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits]]'' is a week-long [[BBC]] reality miniseries which has ordinary civilians put through a close imitation of the declassified SOE training course, sometimes with surprising results. The show is interspersed with entertaining anecdotes of operations. It is available for Americans on Netflix.
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