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	Vera Atkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vera Atkins (June 16, 1908 - June 24, 2000) was a british Intelligence Officer during World War II.
		It is widely believed that Ian Flemming based the James Bond charcter Miss Moneypenny on Atkins.
		She was born Vera Maria Rosenberg in Bucharest, Romania, on 16 June 1908.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vera_Atkins (236 words)

	Vera Atkins
		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 Hastings, Sussex.
		Atkins was widely believed to have inspired the character of Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond series.
		Atkins was born Vera Maria Rosenberg in Bucharest, Romania, and went to London with her parents in 1933, where she adopted her mother's last name.
	www.mishalov.com /Atkins.html (897 words)

	Atkins
		Atkins was born in Devon, England, UK, and died November 21, 1797 in Braunton, Devon, England, UK.
		Atkins, born March 22, 1816 in Devon, England, UK; died October 24, 1889 in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.
		Atkins, born November 01, 1868 in North Dorchester, Ontario, Canada; died November 01, 1954 in Sweaburg, Ontario, Canada.
	j_atkins0.tripod.com (2287 words)

	Vera Atkins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Vera Atkins was born Vera Maria Rosenberg in (National capital and largest city of Romania in southeastern Romania) Bucharest, (A Balkan republic in southeastern Europe) Romania, on 16th June, 1908.
		Her family emigrated to (A division of the United Kingdom) England in 1933 but after a couple of years moved to (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France.
		She enrolled at the (A university in Paris; intellectual center of France) Sorbonne in (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris to study modern languages before attending finishing school at (A city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial center) Lausanne.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/ve/vera_atkins.htm (291 words)

	Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Atkins was the principal assistant to Major Maurice Buckmaster, director of the French section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), set up by Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze" by sabotage and subversion.
		Born in 1908 to an English mother and Romanian father, Vera Atkins was brought up in Bucharest before moving to England with her parents in 1933.
		Vera Atkins was demobilised in 1947, and moved to Winchelsea in East Sussex, where, until her death in 2000 at the age of 92, she lived just across the Channel from the country whose liberation she had done so much to aid.
	www.iamheart.org /articles/noor-un-nisa4.html (1404 words)

	SocietyGuardian.co.uk \| Society Guardian \| Keeping faith with trust
		Atkins merely recalls how unusual it was that he picked at his fingernails throughout her interview for the Portsmouth job.
		Vera Atkins was the driving force at the Special Operations Executive during the second world war, running covert operations in France.
		Atkins says its demotion to two stars was reasonable, caused by a faulty IT system that has since been rectified.
	society.guardian.co.uk /societyguardian/story/0,,1325422,00.html (1416 words)

	Daughters of Yael - Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE
		Vera Atkins recalls one of Denise's final pre-mission briefings at a commonly frequented secret location used on such occasions, in an SOE flat at 6, Orchard Court, Portman Square (30) as well as the final kitting-out in authentic tailor made French clothes (31).
		Vera Atkins (39) said that it was clear there had been a betrayal - and they knew immediately she was captured by a message from their agents - but it would never be known now who was involved unless it was possible to scour the German documents on the issue.
		Present were Vera Atkins, Francis Cammaerts DSO (senior SOE officer in France), Brian Stonehouse, Leo Marks (SOE Chef de Codage) with representatives from the FANY (WTS), WAAF (WRAF), the sister of Lillian Rolfe, the daughter of Violette Szabo, Judge John de Cunha (a prosecutor at Nuremburg) and several former members of the French Resistance.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/ww2/sugar2.html (8197 words)

	Vera Atkins
		After the war Atkins spent a year interrogating German officials and guards who worked at the concentration camps to discover what had happened to the 118 special agents that had not returned to Britain.
		Atkins, who retired to Winchelsea, Sussex, never wrote her memoirs but gave numerous interviews to those writing about the history of the Special Operations Executive.
		Vera Atkins, the heart and brain of the Baker Street Irregulars' French Section, was a young and highly organized woman with a misleadingly innocent smile and an eagle eye for detail.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SOEatkins.htm (1356 words)

	News \| Selected agents
		Vera Atkins was born in Bucharest, Romania, on 16 June 1908.
		Atkins returned to England when France was invaded in May 1940.
		The file includes numerous duplicate photographs of Atkins, recommendations for awards, general personnel correspondence, and copies of the interrogation and investigation reports filed by Atkins after her work looking into the fate of lost SOE F section agents.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /releases/2003/may12/selectedagents.htm (2375 words)

	Portal - Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Vera Atkins, who recruited, trained and monitored the SOE agents, was Principle Assistant to Buckmaster.
		Vera Atkins went to Germany to trace these and found out what happened to 117 of them.
		Spymaster Vera Atkins who accompanied her to the airfield recalled later that one of the pilots had a book by the bedside called ‘Remarkable Women’.
	www.arecordofwomen.com /Profiles/Profile.2003-07-10.2952/profile_view (2609 words)

	Gaby's Literature Review & Comment (Oct. 2004)
		These results suggest that the Atkins diet may be beneficial for patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy, particularly younger patients.
		Although previous studies have shown that aloe vera extracts have antiinflammatory activity, this is the first study to provide scientific support for aloe vera as a treatment for ulcerative colitis.
		Oral aloe vera appears to be safe, and this treatment should be considered as part of a comprehensive approach to the treatment of ulcerative colitis.
	www.townsendletter.com /Oct2004/litreview1004.htm (2558 words)

	Krystyna Skarbek
		Fluent in the French language, she was assigned to SOE's F Section and given the name Christine Granville under which she became most commonly known.
		Vera Atkins, assistant to the head of F Section, knew Krystyna Skarbek well.
		She was said by SOE's Vera Atkins to have had a great appetite for love and laughter but, restless by nature, she missed the excitement of her wartime life.
	usapedia.com /k/krystyna-skarbek.html (788 words)

	Women British SOE agents executed at Natzweiler-Struthof (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		After the war, the SOE was disbanded, but Vera Atkins, a member of the SOE, did an independent investigation to determine the fate of the 118 agents who were missing, including the women agents pictured above.
		She showed Galitzine the names of the missing women SOE agents, but he didn't recognize any of the names; they were not in the records that he had found at Natzweiler.
		However, Galitzine told Atkins about the Karlsruhe prison where the records showed that 3 English women had been imprisoned for several months before being sent to an unnamed concentration camp on July 6, 1944.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Natzweiler/SOEagents.html (1648 words)

	ipedia.com: Special Operations Executive Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Vera Atkins (1908-2000), assistant to Buckmaster, was the soul of the SOE, so much so that many thought she actually ran the organisation.
		Author Ian Fleming, who knew both Maurice Buckmaster and Vera Atkins, is reputed to have used at least parts of them to create "M", and "Miss Moneypenny" in his James Bond books.
		In his first Bond novel, Fleming is said to have based the "Vesper Lynd" character on the beautiful SOE agent, Christine Granville.
	www.ipedia.com /special_operations_executive.html (961 words)

	Don't Quote Me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		She always shuddered at Hoess's reaction to her suggestion that 1.5 million people had been killed in Auschwitz.
		Atkins pushed to be assigned to investigate each of the 118 cases.
		I reached him in that paper's newsroom, fuming over what he perceived to be the unfairness of the "Editors' Note" but otherwise unscathed.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/00/07/20/DON_T_QUOTE_ME.html (1404 words)

	Apocripha News - Conspiracy, Espionage, Internet, Technology and Paranormal activieties. » Secrets and lies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Helm has left the ranks of professional foreign correspondents to become a major writer with her book, A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE, which explores the mores and manner of sending Special Operations Executive agents into France.
		Helm travels to Bulgaria, the Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe to tell the story of Vera Atkins, who became second in command of the French section of the SOE.
		Atkins accompanied every woman to the airfields of southern England and made sure the labels on their clothes matched those worn by women in occupied France.
	apo.apocripha.com /2005/09/03/secrets-and-lies (1209 words)

	AP Online: Obituaries in the News@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		LONDON (AP) -- Vera Atkins, the World War II British spymaster who inspired the efficient and unflappable Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond novels, died Saturday.
		Born Vera Maria Rosenberg in Bucharest in 1908, she moved to England in 1933, later adopting the surname of her English mother.
		Atkins was educated at the Sorbonne, and her knowledge of France led to her recruitment into the French section of Britain's Special Operations Executive, the organization responsible for supporting the resistance in...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:29623470&refid=ip_almanac_hf (176 words)

	British Military Tribunal held at Wuppertal. Germany in 1946 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The evidence for the prosecution had been gathered by Major Bill Barkworth of the SAS War Crimes Investigation team and Vera Atkins, a Squadron Officer of the British SOE, who had interrogated the Natzweiler staff and some of the prisoners, who were also SOE agents.
		His testimony neatly complemented, like an adjacent piece of a jigsaw puzzle, what Vera Atkins had heard from Dr. Guérisse, who had recognized Andrée Borrel and had managed to exchange a few words with another one of of the women before she disappeared.
		According to Rita Kramer, the author of "Flames in the Field," when Straub was interrogated by Vera Atkins, he still had scars on his face from the scratches inflicted by Andrée Borrel.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Natzweiler/SOEagents5.html (2346 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		However, after the war was over she found it difficult to adapt to the routine of everyday life.
		Since her death, it has been speculated by some that because author Ian Fleming used the beautiful Krystyna as the basis for the double agent, "Vesper Lynd" in his first James Bond novel, that Krystyna herself may have actually been a double agent.
		On his passing in 1988, Andrzej Kowerski's body was brought back to London to be interred next to her.
	pardus.info /index.php?title=Christine_Granville (884 words)

	IOL: UK reveals secrets of World War 2 spy network
		The full story of their heroism and that of hundreds of their male counterparts is to become public this week when the National Archives releases a huge stash of secret documents.
		She is often said to have been the model for Miss Moneypenny in the Bond films.
		Atkins was the principal assistant to Maurice Buckmaster, director of the French section of the Special Operations Executive, set up to "set Europe ablaze" by sabotage and subversion.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=24&art_id=vn20030512065620632C371900&set_id=1 (585 words)

	Vera Atkins
		Vera: A Special force of nature; Critic's choice.
		VERA RULE laments her passing and celebrates the greatest of them all - Eve Arden.(Features) (The Independent Sunday (London, England))
		Immune to the Atkins factor: the natural health credentials of yogurt are beating off concerns about carbohydrates, aided by light options.(Yogurts And Pot Desserts) (Grocer)
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0873005.html (229 words)

	Spymistress, Arcade Publishing
		Vera Atkins was an attractive young woman with smoky eyes and lustrous fl hair.
		Recruited at the age of 25 by legendary spymaster Sir William Stephenson—who came to be known as the “Man Called Intrepid”—Vera ran countless perilous missions on her own in the 1930s.
		With her fierce intelligence, blunt manner, personal courage, and exceptional informants, she quickly rose to the leadership echelon in the Special Operations Executive, a covert intelligence agency formed by Winston Churchill.
	www.arcadepub.com /Book/index.cfm?GCOI=55970100880590 (202 words)

	Britain’s spy agency protected top Nazi war criminal
		The papers belonged to Vera Atkins, a senior officer of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), Britain’s secret wartime body.
		After the war she mounted a one-woman investigation into the fate of her agents behind enemy lines.
		The Atkins documents have been corroborated by newly declassified secret papers in the British and American National Archives.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/uk_spy_agency_protected_top_nazi_war_criminal.htm (469 words)

	The National Archives \| National Register of Archives \| Browse the combined corporate and business indexes
		Atkin, James Richard (1867-1944) Baron Atkin, judge (2)
		Atkins, Samuel (1657-1706) Chief Clerk at the Admiralty (1)
		Atkins, Vera May (1908-2000) Vera Maria Rosenberg, Squadron Officer (1)
	www.nra.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/browser/person/page/person_AT.htm (413 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials - 2000 Year in Review
		Hafez Assad, 69, president of Syria, steadfast champion of Arab nationalism and anti-Zionism who ruled his country as a dictator for three decades while transforming it into a regional power; of a heart attack, June 10, Damascus, Syria.
		C.D. Atkins, 86, who in the 1940s co-invented frozen concentrated orange juice with a process that retained its flavor and Vitamin C level, thus revolutionizing the Florida citrus industry; June 3, Winter Haven, Florida.
		Vera Atkins, 92, World War II spymaster who recruited, trained and supervised the 400 British saboteurs who parachuted into France to disrupt Nazi occupation forces and was believed to have inspired the unflappable Miss Moneypenny of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels; June 24, Hastings, Sussex, England.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/year.in.review/story/obits (6235 words)

	Arcade Publishing
		Written with great stylistic flourish, McLynn’s full embrace of his subject’s life, which benefits from exhaustive research resulting in a comprehensive picture of the Napoleon era, is a rich reading experience.
		In the real world of spies, Vera Atkins was the boss.
		A fast-paced look at the ways in which human history has been decided by the unaccountable whim of nature.
	www.arcadepub.com /catalog/index.cfm?category_id=347 (418 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		I also don't think I've read a book that deals so graphically with the twin horrors of the Gestapo and SS (at least, outside the context of the holocaust).
		It's very readable, but the chapters on Vera Atkins are instantly forgettable..
		and although the exploits of Atkins provides a good framework for the book, she doesn't come across as a particularly interesting or likeable person.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0316724971 (675 words)

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