Special Operations Executive

GPTKB entity

Statements (63)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf British intelligence agency
gptkbp:abbreviation gptkb:SOE
gptkbp:activePeriod 1940–1946
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:director gptkb:Colin_Gubbins
gptkbp:dissolved 15 January 1946
gptkbp:formed July 1940
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:London
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Special Operations Executive
gptkbp:motto gptkb:Set_Europe_Ablaze
gptkbp:notableMember gptkb:Colin_Gubbins
gptkb:Noor_Inayat_Khan
gptkb:Odette_Sansom
gptkb:Vera_Atkins
gptkbp:notableMission gptkb:Operation_Mincemeat
gptkb:Operation_Animals
gptkb:Operation_Anthropoid
gptkb:Operation_Braddock
gptkb:Operation_Bulbasket
gptkb:Operation_Carpetbagger
gptkb:Operation_Chaffinch
gptkb:Operation_Creek
gptkb:Operation_Foxley
gptkb:Operation_Freston
gptkb:Operation_Gaff
gptkb:Operation_Grouse
gptkb:Operation_Gunnerside
gptkb:Operation_Halyard
gptkb:Operation_Harling
gptkb:Operation_Jaywick
gptkb:Operation_Jedburgh
gptkb:Operation_Josephine_B
gptkb:Operation_Musketoon
gptkb:Operation_Outward
gptkb:Operation_Periwig
gptkb:Operation_Postmaster
gptkb:Operation_Rimau
gptkb:Operation_Savanna
gptkb:Operation_Sussex
gptkb:Operation_Swallow
gptkb:intelligence_gathering
assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
covert sabotage operations
supporting French Resistance
training resistance fighters
gptkbp:notableOperation gptkb:Operation_Anthropoid
gptkb:Operation_Harling
gptkb:Operation_Jedburgh
gptkbp:operatesIn gptkb:Africa
gptkb:Asia
gptkb:Europe
gptkb:Middle_East
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:Ministry_of_Economic_Warfare
gptkbp:purpose espionage
reconnaissance
sabotage
support of resistance movements
gptkbp:successor gptkb:MI6
gptkb:Special_Air_Service
gptkb:MI9
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:A._J._Ayer
gptkb:Alfred_Jules_Ayer
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4