One of Fleming's neighbours in Jamaica, and later his lover, was Blanche Blackwell, mother of Chris Blackwell of Island Records ; Fleming used Blanche as the model for Pussy Galore, although the name " Pussy " came from Mrs " Pussy " Deakin, formerly Livia Stela, an SOE agent and friend of his wife's.

After giving a keynote speech at the State-Owned Enterprise ( SOE ) executives ' conference on 5 January 2007, he was notably absent at the Central Conference on Financial Affairs later on that month.

Benoist would later return to France on a second mission, lasting from October 1943 to February 1944, after which he returned to London for a short time before going back to France in March to work in the Nantes area with fellow SOE agent Denise Bloch.

Déricourt himself claimed later that SOE agents were deliberately sacrificed to distract attention from the Allied invasion plans.

Fifty years later to the day, the Valençay SOE Memorial, originally known as the " Spirit of Partnership ," was dedicated in honour of the 104 members of SOE's F Section who died for the liberation of France.

In December 1942 Agazarian arrived in Paris to join the newly formed Prosper network of the SOE and was joined later by his wife Francine.

Some months later, she happened to meet Squadron Leader William Simpson, who worked part-time for SOE and with whom she discussed her desire to return to France and take part in resistance work.

De Chastelain was born in 1937 in Bucharest, Romania, to Alfred Gardyne de Chastelain, a Scottish oil engineer then working in Bucharest for British Petroleum, ( and later an agent of SOE ) and Marion Elizabeth de Chastelain, an American.

Operation Gunnerside was later evaluated by SOE as the most successful act of sabotage in all of World War II.

They later contributed to the successful Operation Gunnerside in February 1943, when a small team of Norwegian SOE agents were parachuted into the area and demolished much of the Vemork plant.

A book giving an account of the SOE Operation in Romania was written by one member of the team, Ivor Porter, later a British Ambassador ( Operation Autonomous: With SOE in Wartime Rumania, Chatto and Windus, 1989 ).

In 1956, McKenna won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film, A Town Like Alice and two years later was nominated for Best Actress again for her role as the World War II SOE agent Violette Szabo, in 1958's Carve Her Name with Pride.

Although she and Edmund had intended to marry, Edmund died before they could do so and she later married an SOE officer, settling in England.

He served in the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) with Colin Gubbins and would later be appointed Commandant of one of the Secret Intelligence Service ’ s schools.

SOE apologized for this abrupt change in policy and reinstated the option for an additional week after which it was removed permanently.

Executives initially had very low expectations for EverQuest but in 2000, following the surprising continued success and unparalleled profits of EverQuest, Sony reorganized Verant Interactive into Sony Online Entertainment ( SOE ) with Smedley retaining control of the company.

In May 2004, Woody Hearn of GU Comics called for all EverQuest gamers to boycott the Omens of War expansion in an effort to force SOE to address existing issues with the game rather than release another " quick-fire " expansion.

The original use of Nobel 808 not supplied by the SOE was for sabotage of German installations and railways in Occupied Europe.

During World War II it was extensively used by the British Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) for sabotage missions.

The samples of explosive brought to the U. S. by the Tizard Mission had already been packaged by the SOE ready for dropping to the French Resistance and were therefore labelled in French, as Explosif Plastique.

After an assessment for fluency in the French language and a series of interviews, she was inducted into SOE.

Her wireless reports to SOE headquarters on the local factories producing war materials for the Germans were important in establishing Allied bombing targets.

A recent biography of Vera Atkins, the intelligence officer for the French section of SOE, notes that that there was a great deal of confusion about what happened to Szabo-the story was revised four times-and states that the Sten gun incident " was probably a fabrication ".

As one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, Ensign Szabo is listed on the Valençay SOE Memorial.

He tried to get the clearance for an antifascist uprising in Sardinia, which the SOE supported at some stage but did not receive approval from the Foreign Office.

The Maquis heavily relied on airdrops of weapons and explosives from the British SOE, SOE parachuted agents in with wireless sets ( for radio communication ) and dropping containers with various munitions including, but not limited to Sten guns, Pencil detonators, plastic explosives, Welrod pistols ( a silenced specialized assassination weapon favored by covert operatives ) and assorted small arms ( pistols, rifles and sub-machine guns ).

In general, SOE used invisible inks as a back-up method of communication, for when more secure communication techniques were unavailable.

When Leo Marks was appointed codes officer of the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) in London during World War II, he very quickly recognized the weakness of the technique, and the consequent damage to agents and to their organizations on the Continent, and began to press for changes.

* Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks, HarperCollins ( 1998 ) ISBN 0-00-255944-7 ; Marks was the Head of Codes at SOE and this book is an account of his struggle to introduce better encryption for use by field agents ; it contains more than 20 previously unpublished code poems by Marks, as well as descriptions of how they were used and by whom.

In 1946, SIS absorbed the " rump " remnant of the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ), dispersing the latter's personnel and equipment between its operational divisions or " controllerates " and new Directorates for Training and Development and for War Planning.

* George Dupre, who claimed that he worked for the SOE and the French Resistance during World War II.

The scheme called for the SOE to parachute a German-speaking Pole and a British sniper into the area surrounding the compound, wearing German army uniforms.

In 1943, she enlisted in the British army in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force as an Aircraftwoman 2nd Class and began her training in Egypt as a paratrooper for the British Special Operations Executive ( SOE ).

He also fell for Bardet's offer to provide new forged identity papers for the British SOE agents working with him, and allowed photographs of the agents to be supplied to Bardet for that purpose.

Verant from 1999 to 2001 and SOE from 2001 to 14 January 2004 issued formal statements giving some indications of the number of EQ subscriptions and peak numbers of players online at any given moment.

On June 6, 2012, SOE removed the ability to buy game subscription time with Station Cash without any warning to players.

Two SOE servers were set up to better support players in ( or simply closer to ) Europe: Antonius Bayle and Kane Bayle.

SOE maintains a Memory Book for former players.

EQEmulator is not associated with Sony or SOE, however, EQEmu players must still purchase a ( legal ) copy of EverQuest.

Sony Online Entertainment ( SOE ) banned players who possessed duped currency.

On Mar 12 2009, SOE announced that it would add its LiveGamer Exchange RMT ( real money trading ) service to Vanguard, which allows trading game money, items, and whole characters between players, for real money.

DoN is an expansion from SOE that includes mostly missions given out by an NPC that are completed by a group of players, in instanced zones.

Station Exchange is the official Sony Online Entertainment auction service that provides players a secure method of buying and selling the right to use in game coin, items and characters in accordance with SOE ’ s license agreement, rules and guidelines.