List of Special Operations Executive operations
This is a list of Special Operations Executive operations in World War II.
Albania
Bernard – Albania, partisan supportCameron – Albania, partisan supportConsensus – Albania, partisan supportConsensus II – Albania, partisan supportCooperation – Albania, partisan supportFigure – Albania, partisan supportGunman – Albania, partisan supportPrimus – Albania, partisan supportSapling – Albania, partisan supportSconce – Albania, partisan supportSculptor – Albania, partisan supportSlender – Albania, partisan supportSpillway – Albania, partisan supportSpinster – Albania, partisan supportStables – Albania, partisan supportStepmother – Albania, partisan supportSwifter – Albania, partisan supportVertebrae – Albania, partisan supportAustria
Operation Bongo – Austria, Operation to secure a vault containing many of Europe's art treasures.Clowder – Austria, establishment of an advance post to make contacts in central and eastern Europe, exploiting resistance movements, and looking especially to work in Austria and Germany.Crowd – Austria, 16 March investigation of general conditions of the underground socialist movement in the Sudetenland; fate unknown but thought to have been captured.Danbury – Austria, 13 August sabotage of enemy lines of communication in Drau valley, based at Klagenfurt; eventually returned to Bari.Operation Denver – Austria, 8 May contact with resistance groups in Sudetenland and establishment of communications. All agents lost through betrayal.Drybrook – Austria, 13 August establishment of W/T links in east Tyrol; dropped in error to Germany and returned to UK.Duncery – Austria, 24 April preservation of Zeltweg Aerodrome for the Allies, in the event unnecessary through work of local anti-Nazi groups.Duval – Austria, 16 February to contact underground organisation in Salzburg and assist in sabotage; party captured.Ebensburg – Austria, 8 February organisation of local sabotage with Maquis; capture of Bad Aussee four days before US arrival.Electra – Austria, 23 March to contact the underground socialist movement, Vienna; W/T contact never established.Evansville – Austria, 7 February support to movement in Graz, and arrangement for agents in Italy; believed killed and underground organisation crushed.Greenleaves – Austria, 2 April group based at Klagenfurt; dropped successfully but documents and photos captured; evacuated to Bari.Hamster – Austria, 21 April arming of small resistance groups for attacks on road and rail transport; reported working in Klagenfurt.Haras – Austria, 30 July to join Communist underground in Innsbruck, establish radio links. Unsuccessful, W/T not dropped and agent attacked.Historian – Austria, 24 April attack against communication lines in Klagenfurt.Pyx – Austria, 13 June Klagenfurt to Vienna; for creation of safe houses, contact with the resistance locally, sabotage organisation; delay imposed by partisans and capture of information; eventually return of the party to Bari.Seafront – Austria, 12 October establishment of safe route to Salzburg and encouragement of resistance in Salzburg; dropped to Germany by mistake.Temple – Austria, 13 August establishment of contacts in frontier area; fate unknown.Belgium
Aemilius – Belgium, 3 August 1944, field name Lucie, Rockfort-Marche region.Aeneas – BelgiumAgamemnon – Belgium, January/February 1944, field name Suzanne, Tournai, liaison mission with Cufflinks mission, captured.Agrippa – Belgium, 5 March 1944, field name Brooch, W/T mission.Alarbus – Belgium, 3 June 1944, field name Locket, Ciney/Marche region.Alcibiades – Belgium, 5 August 1944, field name Ida, Halle/Nivelles region, provision of instruction in sabotage.Alsatian – Belgium 21–22 April 1943, Briquet. Mission members killed on impact. Aimed at encouragement of resistance in industry.Antenor – Belgium, field name Tiepin, Gemblaux.Apemantus – Belgium, February/March field name Monique, Beauriang region, liaison with resistance groups.Arboretum – Belgium, agents executed, few details of exact mission.Armadillo – Belgium, 6 August field name Gavotte, Ardennes region.Association – Belgium, infiltration of agent to Belgium through Lisbon; paid off after attempt at usage.Aufidius – Belgium, 1 April filed name Colette, Ciney Marche, liaison mission with chief of zone IV, for organisation of zone, instruction in arms and explosives.Autogyro – Belgium, few details in files, mission cancelled after several failures.Baboon – Belgium, 17 November Political Intelligence Department mission to encourage peasant resistance.Badger – Belgium, February Liège Province region, reception committees, communication with Secret Army; agent deemed 'irresponsible'.Balaklava – Belgium, September–October W/T support to Outcaste at Neufchâteau, discovered by Germans.Balthazar – Belgium, field name Louse, aimed at paralysis of river traffic in Hainaut region, later expanded to cutting of railway routes and destruction of communications in preparation for D-Day, working to Nelly.Bassianus – Belgium, May field name Violette, to work to Nelly, sabotage instruction, including derailment of trains.Bernardo – Belgium, 4–5 July Brussels region, messenger to chief of Secret Army, field name Nina.Bianca – Belgium, 28–29 June field name Diane, sabotage instruction.Borzoi – Belgium, 20 December 1942, Brussels and Tournai, to extend Flemish clandestine press, reception committees; agents escapes to Geneva, March.Brabantio – Belgium, July or August filed name Odette, principal delegate to occupied territory for organisation of sabotage.Buckhound – Belgium, W/T support, Military Zone IV, Brussels.Bullfrog – Belgium, May field name Bullfrog accompanied by Gofer as a signal officer contacts with Secret Army, organisation of reception committees and sabotage groups South of the river Meuse.Caius – Belgium, August field name Stephanie, sabotage instruction to Huguette, Brussels and Liège Province region, captured, escaped.Calf – Belgium, January aimed at the creation of links to secret army, Hainaut, but a possible security breach.Calpurnia – Belgium, July–August field name Courante, W/T support to Huguette group, Hainaut Province.Canidus – Belgium, June W/T to Delphine mission.Canticle – Belgium, March with Duncan, Mastiff, Incomparable; courier, and W/T support arrested; later agents reported to have been beheaded.Caphis – Belgium, January field name Herminie, probably a stage mission, captured.Carical – Belgium, PID mission, based in Liège, Charleroi, Brussels, to destroy records of the Office National du Travail to undermine the use of skilled labour by the German occupiers.Cato – Belgium, July field name Celeste, to provide a messenger link for communications from the Minister of Finance.Cawdor – Belgium, February–March field name Roland, accompanied by Necklace, to provide a courier service.Cayote – Belgium, May for organisation of motor sabotage, Brussels, accompanied by W/T mission Duncan.Celeste – Belgium, July carrying messages from the Belgian Minister of Finance.Chicken – Belgium, August field name Tante Caro, creation of organisation based on passive resistance and sabotage in the Antwerp area.Chiron – Belgium, April field name Sash, W/T mission; arrested.Cimber – Belgium, August field name Yvonne, transmission of microfilmed messages.Civet – Belgium, also known as mission Stanley, report on strength of secret armies at request of Hubert Pierlot.Claribel – Belgium, March preparations for possible use of Belgium by enemy forces as a springboard for the invasion of Britain.Claudius – Belgium, July to contact resistance groups - FIL, Mouvement national belge, Groupe G, and offer financial support.Coal/Turtle – Belgium, January abortive mission to steal German fighter aircraft, Brussels.Collie – Belgium, March mission for SOE and Belgian Sûreté, to contact resistance, organise reception committees; exfiltration of leader of Belgian Legion, but caused a subsequent quarrel between SOE and the Belgian government in exile over interrogation of leader of Belgian Legion.Cominius – Belgium, March–April field name Mitten, Huy, Ardennes region, W/T mission.Conjugal – Belgium, September to organise sabotage and contacts, but captured.Cordelet – Belgium, mission to social and democratic trade unionists, to encourage resistance, and organise a go-slow of Belgian workers in Germany.Coriolanus – Belgium, April–May field name Handbag, W/T mission.Daniel/Marmoset – Belgium, January sabotage organisation for Periwig.Daranus – Belgium, April field name Agnes, investigation of Tybalt/ Claudius mission, information gathering on the efficiency of various groups, re-evaluation of sabotage missions.Dingo (1943) – Belgium, PID mission, to stimulate slow down in production in the industrial areas of Charleroi, possible security breaches by agent.Dolabella – Belgium, July/August field name Ursule, work in organising reception committees with Simone.Donaldbain – Belgium, August field name Foxtrot, W/T mission accompanying Odette mission.Duncan – Belgium, October attempted infiltration of agent to Belgium via Portugal through a staged desertion; contact eventually lost.Emelia – Belgium, August Mrs Olga Jackson, field name Babette, independent propaganda mission for undermining of morale in Brussels, Ghent, Liège, Antwerp, Charleroi; organisation of prostitution circuit aimed at German officers.Enorbarbus – Belgium, field name Polka, W/T support to Constantine mission.Eros – Belgium, August field name Reel, W/T support.Euphronius – Belgium, May field name Arlette, sabotage instruction to Nelly in field, region Bierene.Ferret (1942) – Belgium, plan to evacuate seven agents from Belgium, including Arboretum, presumed captured by Germans.Flaminius – Belgium, October 1943, field name Jacqueline, arrested mid-Flavius (1943) – Belgium, -44, field name Bib Red, W/T mission.Fortinbras – Belgium, field name Bracelet, little detail of mission provided in relevant files.Gibbon (1942) – Belgium, -44, PWE mission, organisation of carrier pigeon communication systems.Glamis – Belgium, April field name Josephine, Huy, Andenne region, adjunct to Service Hotton sabotage group.Gratiano – Belgium, January, field name Ping Pong, W/T operator for Samoyède II, based Brussels.Greyhound – Belgium, -45, organisation of escape routes through France to Spain.Griffon – Belgium, February field name Genon, sent in with W/T mission Badger to Huy region; 2e Bureau agent sent to liaise with secret armies, eventually captured and sent to Dachau.Guineapig – Belgium, October field name Wig, with Flaminius, arrested.Gypsy – Belgium, September 1941, to organise reception committees, VERMILLION courier routes, arrested May.Hecate – Belgium, mid-, W/T mission to Huguette group, based in Brussels.Hector (World War II) – Belgium, Hector 2 captured. Otherwise little detail available in the file.Helenus – Belgium, August field name Jeannine, Brussels, sabotage instructor for Nola.Hillcat – Belgium, August sent with Tybalt, W/T missioni to Hector group.Hireling – Belgium, September arrested shortly after landing, escape, investigation by MI5.Horatio – Belgium, January 1944, field name Glove, Brussels, W/T mission for Hector II and Nelly, arrested May.Hortensius – Belgium, January 1944, field name Valentine, sabotage of waterways, Wanneberg and Brussels region, arrested in April.Iachimo – Belgium, field name Noemie, to contact resistance groups of MNB. No clue in files as to success.Iago – Belgium, January field name Scipio, provision of counter scorch organisation in Antwerp; investigation of security of Hector organisation under recent arrests.Imogen – Belgium, July/August field name Alice, courier for Odette, successful mission.Incomparable – Belgium, March PID propaganda mission, to contact and obtain influence in sabotage organisation; no clue in these files as to its fate.Independence – Belgium, April via Gibraltar; to contact any existing organisations and assess progress, advise on needs. No clue as to outcome.Intersection – Belgium, January captured shortly afterwards, investigation on use by Germans and possible arrest of other agents.Jerboa – Belgium, April Ghent, Sûreté de l'État mission, to limit industrial production, some sabotage of waterways.Junius – Belgium, May/June field name Parasol, W/T mission, possibly arrested.Koala – Belgium, June to stimulate a go-slow action to Beringen coal mines to reduce output, also to prepare sabotage on railways and the Albert Canal.Labrador – Belgium, January 2ieme mission, to organise reception committees; later doubts as to security.Lacquer – Belgium, September sent to liaise with Conjugal organisation.Lamb – Belgium, April/May W/T mission, to the secret army.Lavinia – Belgium, March/April field name Victorine, organisation mission, sabotage against river traffic and locks.Lear – Belgium, August to assist Stanley mission in cooperation with the secret army.Lemur – Belgium, November British officer sent to try to resolveccurrent impasse, to organise reception committees, Ghent region.Lepidus – Belgium, May field name Waltz, W/T mission with Huguette, eventually captured.Ligarius – Belgium, June 1944, field name Margot, liaison with Delphine, sabotage training; arrested July.Lodovico – Belgium, May Namur region, field name Rosalie, sabotage instruction mission.Lucullus – Belgium, January field name Gauntlet, Nivelles, W/T mission.Luculluss – Belgium, March field name Jeanette, shot down.Lynx – Belgium, June Neufchâteau area, W/T mission.M 12/Tiber – Italy, political and military liaison mission; a sparse file suggests activity in Liguria and Genoa.Macduff – Belgium, May with Ibex and Seal, to find reception committees for Civer, to act as an adjunct to mission Stanley.Majordomo – Belgium, January with Mandamus, reports on arrests, including Lacquer agents.Man Friday – Belgium, January contact existing secret organisations, collect political and propaganda information.Mandamus – Belgium, January to organise sabotage, passive resistance, arms dumps, possibly crashed after take-off.Mandrill – Belgium, PID mission to contact Cordier mission for the demoralisation of German support, reception of propaganda, Liège, Brussels, Ghent.Manelaus – Belgium, October liaison mission to chief of zone 1, field name Berthe.Marcius – Belgium, February/March field name Necklace, W/T support to chief Osric; presumed arrested.Mardian – Belgium, July field name Mathilde, to work with Celeste.Marmot – Belgium, September support to existing sabotage movement in Mons, Scheldt region.Mastiff – Belgium, March W/T mission with Incomparable; no reports received.Menas – Belgium, August field name Eugénie, to contact Samoyède II and Stentor organisation.Mencrates – Belgium, April/May field name Hortense, sabotage mission to Nelly.Menenius – Belgium, August field name Simone, organisation of reception committees; arrives too late to fulfil mission.Messala – Belgium, June to regain direction in field of railway dislocation, replace Nelly and organise sabotage structure, field name Huguette.Mink – Belgium, chief steward in Belgian merchant navy, escaping to form sabotage organisation in Antwerp region and await W/T.Mongoose (1942) – Belgium, June to contact secret armies, arrange reception committees; established but no reports received.Montano – Belgium, March reports on Groupe G activities, investigation of Yapok, Fabius and Hector II missions, creation of PWE structure and sabotage central Brussels.Mouse – Belgium, March drops unoccupied France, arrested shortly after landing.Mule – Belgium, April/May Free French recruit, to organise transport and sabotage in Antwerp.Musjid – Belgium, September/October contact organisations in east and west Flanders, creation of reception and sabotage organisations, organiser Aboretum, to be dispatched.Newsagent – Belgium, May with W/T operator Vampire, to organise reception committees and sabotage groups in Antwerp and Limburg.Nicanor – Belgium, January /February field name Therese, support to chief Belgian organisers.Opinion – Belgium, mission to cultivate contacts in ecclesiastical circles, including the king's entourage.Othello – Belgium, June mission to organise agricultural resistance, develop clandestine press and the encouragement of the sale of produce direct to the population, thus undermining occupation controls.Outcast – Belgium, September/October to work also into Luxembourg to contact existing groups or set up new ones, plan sabotage of power stations, industrial targets.Outhaul – Belgium, set for June did not take place, little information as to purpose in available file.Pandarus – Belgium, March, field name Cufflinks; to supply 90,000 dollars to secret army and aid building up to wireless network.Patroclus – Belgium, April/May 1944, with Velutus and Publius, field name Bracelet, works to Osric, Brussels, but arrested June.- Operation Patron – Belgium, 1944, proposed exfiltration of Prince Charles of Belgium, brother of the King; no progress by August.Periwig – Belgium, Sabotage mission with radio broadcast from Brussels towards London. "Armand" captured by GFP in january 1942.Philotus – Belgium, August establishment of organisation for reception and distribution of propaganda, attacks against pro-Fascists, and obstruction of work of collaborators.Phrynia – Belgium, August field name Liliane, to Osric, communications, information and reconnaissance for the chief of the area.Platypus – Belgium, August with Man Friday, mission with Belgian Sûreté and Political Warfare Executive to influence Belgian industry towards go-slow tactics, collection of economic data; status of mission questioned by 'C'.Pointer – Belgium, July with Claudius, later W/T to Claudius, contact with escape organisations; but questions over contact with German agents.Polonius – Belgium, January field name Belt, to Tybalt, north of Nivelles.Priam – Belgium, May/June field name Hubertine, sabotage instruction mission.Publius – Belgium, April/May field name Muff, W/T mission to ColetteRat/Goat – Belgium, April organisation of courier line for escapees and mail.Regan – Belgium, February field name Lining, W/T mission to Scipio.Reynaldo – Belgium, August field name Gabrielle, to contact chief of the secret army.Rhombold – Belgium, October Chevron area, W/T and sabotage.Roderigo – Belgium, May field name Paulette, sabotage instruction to Nelly organisation, Lessines region.Rosencrantz – Belgium, September W/T mission, overtaken by Allied advance.Sable – Belgium, April/May east of Blois, to establish sabotage group near Antwerp, part of mission known as 'the Toughs', to disorganise transport, railways, communications.Samoyède – Belgium, May PID mission, for pre- and post- liberation work, jamming of German wireless installations, aim of helping Allies from D-Day in use of press, cinema and radio.Sempronius – Belgium, February/March field name Ernestine, assistance to chief of sabotage, organisation of reception of material, using business cover; no reports received from mission in surviving file.Silkmerchant – Belgium, May organisation of passive resistance through liberal and social parties, eventually leading to sabotage.Socrates – Belgium, to organise financial aid to resistance organisations.Terrier – Belgium, March Rochefort area, W/T mission suspicions of possible use of W/T sets by the enemy.Tybalt – Belgium, organisational mission to contact resistance CLAUDIUS groups, secret armies and FIL, the largest sub group in Belgium, and bring these within SOE coordination.Union (1944) – France, January to investigate Maquis strength, Savone region.Varro – Belgium, field name Delphine, mission to investigate arrests in Tybalt organisation.Vergillia – Belgium, February field name Nelly, chief sabotage organisation working to chief of staff, SOE and Belgian Sûreté, with the aim of dislocating rail and road transportation on D-Day.Yapok – Belgium, February with Montano and Volumnia missions, field name Shoelace; arrested and escaped.
France
Aloes – France, 1944, code name for resistance headquarters, Brittany, W/T communications to five departments of Brittany.Armada – France, November sabotage of Le Creusot electricity power, also transformer stations and fuel depots.Bezique/Dressmaker – France, sabotage of tanneries at Graulhet and Mazamet ; unsuccessful.Citronelle – France, to assess Maquis Strength, Ardennes region.Echalotte – France, wireless bases in Moselle and Vosges area to augment existing radio circuits and to provide information to London from rear of German line.Eucalyptus – France, derived from Union, liaison mission, Vercors. Commander, Major Desmond Longe. Hangman – France, sabotage of pylons; training for the operation took place, but no indications are available from the file that the operation took place.Housekeeper – France, sabotage of canal lock at Lesdains.Josephine B – France, sabotage of transformer sub station Pessac.Pilchard – France, sabotage of Matisse works, Versailles, and BREWER Radio Paris at Allouis.Sainfoin – France, September Pantarlier region, working behind enemy lines in advance of Allies.Savanna – and France, sabotage of Vannes aerodrome.Scullion – France, 18 April independent French mission to sabotage Les Telots shale oil refinery.Sling – France, attack on Paris electricity supplies by systematic destruction of pylons on three main lines; successful.Operation Sophie – France, June dispatch of assistant to De Gaulle's commissaire for France.Germany
Braddock I – Germany, dropping of incendiary devices by air for possible use by prisoners of war in an uprising.Braddock II – Germany, dropping of propaganda information in GermanyCalvados – Germany, attempt to start a sabotage organisation in Hamburg and Bremen, using a German deserter, Kurt Koenig.Colan – Germany, sabotage of railway between Stuttgart and Heilbronn, reports of success by agents.Downend – Germany, agent sent to create a sabotage organisation in the Ruhr and Frankfurt area, based on a nucleus of contacts with the ISK.Fleckney – Germany, -45, establishment of an organiser for sabotage in Breslau region.Fordwick – Germany, establishment of a line for agents and information between Germany and Denmark.Foxley – Germany, plan to assassinate Hitler pressed by SOE and supported by Duff Cooper. A full implementation and intelligence report was drawn up but was not taken forward; internal arguments against the assassination included the possibility of a resulting Hitler martyr cult; and, when the war would eventually be won, a lessening of the perception that Nazism had been decisively crushed by the Allies. In any event, plans to deal with Hitler's subordinates, including Goebbels, found favour but were not implemented.Frilford – Germany, -45, to sabotage railway track from Hintshingen to Oberlauchringen; reports from agents on success.Vivacious – Germany, agent sent to sabotage the Bruno Hintze precision engineering works in Berlin, active in the production of V2 rocket components. Not successful, but agent managed to return to Britain.Greece
Animals – Greece, redeployment of Harling personnel to disrupt German communication to western Greece and add credibility to a false plan of invasion there.Harling – sabotage of the Gorgopotamos viaduct in a joint operation by a British mission and Greek Resistance groups.Locksmith – attempted sabotage of the Corinth Canal by a four-man team led by Mike Cumberlege.Noah's Ark – proposed operations to harass German withdrawal from GreeceIndia
Creek – successful attack on Ehrenfels, a German ship transmitting information to U-boats from neutral Portugal's territory of GoaItaly
Aileron – Italy, brief report only available in the files of an agent sent to Siena in March 1944, purpose unclear.Almouth – Italy, February 1944, plans for blowing up of railway bridge over the Taro; the relevant file provides few clues to outcome.Ampthill – Italy, March 1944, rail sabotage at Pedaso.Atlow – Italy, April sabotage against railways in the Siena area, Asciano.Balloonet – Italy, political and military mission to the East Tyrol and VIOLET south-west Carinthia.Bandon VII – Italy, continued political and military liaison mission in Turin. Appears to have had the task of facilitating supplies by safeguarding Rivoli airport.Bergenfield – Italy, political and military liaison mission to the TABELLA partisans, Udine area.Blundell – Italy, political and military liaison mission to VIOLET Piacenza partisans, working in La Spezia region. The relevant files contain reports by leaders Captain T D Gregg and Major Lett.Blundell – Italy, general name used to denote the various liaison missions to the Italian partisans in the north,.Boykin – Italy, plan for kidnapping of suspected double agents who were thought to be compromising the north Italian resistance. Although successful when carried out in February: interrogation of the agents later suggested that the suspicions were unfounded.Cherokee – Italy, political and military liaison mission to partisans in ANTI-SCORCH northern Piedmont.Cisco – Italy, political and military liaison mission, Modena-Reggio, aiming to create a secure base on the northern Apennine Mountains.Colossus – Italy, February Landing of sabotage of bridges.Coolant – Italy, political and military liaison mission to the partisans COOLANT BLUE north east of Udine.Corona (1944) – Italy, political and military liaison mission, Piedmont.Donum – Italy, political and military liaison mission in east Piedmont.Envelope – Italy Reggio Emilia region, political and military liaison BLUE mission.Evaporate – Italy, political and military liaison mission to Modena.Ferret(1944) – Italy, June to land three A Force agents north of Bonassola on the Ligurian coast and attempt a meeting with an existing Ferret party.Ferrula – Italy, -45, Val d'Aosta, political and military liaison mission.Flap/Fin – Italy, 1945, political and military liaison mission to southern Piedmont, dispatched August. Also appears to be known as Temple mission.Floodlight – Italy, -45, political and military liaison mission consisting of Major W O Churchill, to act as British Liaison Officer to General Cadorna at the request of the CLNAI in northern Italy.Gela Blue – Italy, -45, political and military liaison mission to partisans in Vittorio Veneto.Genesse – Italy, military and political liaison mission to Oltre-Po, Pavese and partisans of Ligurian zone.Hail – Italy, date uncertain. Few papers are provided on this file, but the mission appears to have been led by Petrucci, shot by the SS in March.Hapale – Italy, political and military liaison mission to the partisans, southern Piedmont; signals investigation mission.Hapeville – Italy probably little detail on the file, but likely to have been a liaison mission to the partisans at Bergamasco.Harrisburg – Italy, political and military liaison mission to partisansHerring – Italy, April 1944 raid by Italian paratroops on German supply lines.Herrington – Italy, political and military liaison mission, northern Lombardy, to the partisans of Bergamasco.Homestead – Italy, political and military liaison mission, northern Lombardy.Incisor – Italy, political and military liaison mission to the Val d'Aosta area.Indelible – Italy, military and political liaison mission to partisans in the COTULLA Savona provinceInsulin – Italy, March political and military liaison mission, Piacentina area.Izarra – Italy, proposed exfiltration of General Gustvo Pesenti.Leyton – Italy, July to block enemy transport and communications on the coast road, Fano to Pesaro.M 11 – Italy, political and military liaison mission, Asti and Piedmont.M 6 – Italy, political and military liaison mission in Biella area.Mallaby/Neck – Italy, 1943 with a second mission the first W/T mission dropped by parachute to Lake Como, but was captured on landing. The agent, Richard Mallaby, also known as Olaf and Richard Tucker, provided a W/T link during the final surrender of the Axis forces in Italy after being captured during his second mission.Moselle – Italy, wireless operation, agent captured in Sardinia and AVOCAT possibly played back against SOE.Pool – Italy, May. Pool I was a landing on Elba near Capo San Andrea, with Pool II being the exfiltration of agents from the same place.Potato – Italy, sabotage of the railway line from Siena to Empoli and subsidiary roads, June to July.Ricco – Italy, political and military mission to partisans; road party in the La Spezia area.Rudder – Italy, codename for telegrams received from Rome through a code specially infiltrated immediately after the armistice.Ruina – Italy, political and military liaison mission to partisans, west Veneto. The file contains a detailed sabotage diary.Saki – Italy, political and military liaison mission Liguria region.Turdus – Italy, Lunese area, political and military liaison mission to partisans.Netherlands
Artichoke – Holland, June to destroy VLF stations at Kootwijk, the communications centre for U-boats in North Sea. An agent was to be exfiltrated, but the file provides no further details.Backgammon/Draughts – Holland organising mission,.Broadbean – Holland, February to collect mail from resistance groups in northern Holland and arrange transportation.Curling – Holland, W/T mission to chief operator.Dicing – Holland, April Jedburgh team to represent special forces and act as liaison between resistance and paratroops in the Assen, Meppel and Coevorden area.Draughts – Holland, January W/T mission, north Holland.Gambling – Holland, Jedburgh team to Veluwe region.Kuyper – Holland, October Lieutenant Dubois of Dutch army sent to organise reception committee and locate evading service personnel. Captured.Market – Holland, September liaison missions for Arnhem operations, EDWARD, provision of W/T contacts with England during airborne operation CLAUDE, Operation Market Garden. The four Jedburgh teams were Edward, Claude, CLARENCE and Clarence and Daniel.Rummy – Holland, to contact underground movements and report on security aspects after recent German successes against the circuits.Tiddleywinks – Holland, August to re-establish propaganda links, send messages to the underground press on behalf of the Queen; agent injured on landing.North Africa
Falaise – Tangier, -42, destruction of an enemy wireless station used for providing locations of Allied submarines in the Straits of Gibraltar.Norway
Source:Barbara - Trondheim, sabotage train line between Trondheim and Storlien.- Redshank - Orkanger, sabotage the transformer station to stop pyrite transportation from Orkla mines to the shipping harbor at Thamshavn.
- Kestrel - Fosdalen, sabotage the iron mine equipment to halt the increase in production.
- Marshfield - Nesset, sabotage the Rødsand iron mines. SOE agents dispatched but disappeared after landing.
- Chaffinch - Moss, sabotage shipping and make contact with resistance groups. SOE agents escaped after sinking a vessel.