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00:03World War II is over, but British women agents remain missing throughout Europe.
00:14The other English women, how many were there?
00:18Answer me!
00:20Nazi radio mastermind Josef Goertz gives spymaster Vera Atkins an explosive testimony.
00:28Yes, I believe that's him.
00:31Implicating Henri Derricourt as the double agent who betrays the British SOE to the Gestapo.
00:42Derricourt is arrested in Paris, but has Vera really got the man who betrayed her women agents?
00:52Whitehall has closed down the special operations executive.
00:58But Vera has evidence from a French resistance fighter that her agent, Noor Inayat Khan, could still be alive.
01:07Vera will not give up.
01:10One agent who does make it back alive is Odette Sansom.
01:14She is driven out of Ravensbrück concentration camp by its commandant, Fritz Søren.
01:20This man is a walker.
01:22Søren is now on the run.
01:25But his deputy, Johann Schwarzhuber...
01:28What happened to her?
01:29They were shot.
01:31...is in custody, awaiting the Ravensbrück trial.
01:46It's the 5th of December, 1946.
01:50In Hamburg, in the British zone of occupied Germany,
01:55The Ravensbrück trial begins.
02:00The defendants are concentration camp personnel from all divisions of the camp.
02:07SS officers.
02:09Camp doctors.
02:11Female guards.
02:13It is a Nazi camp like no other.
02:18Ravensbrück was a concentration camp, and unlike every other concentration camp,
02:23it was a concentration camp for women.
02:28It was particularly horrifying.
02:30For the sensibilities of people in the 1940s as well,
02:34where women are meant to be kept out of combat, out of war,
02:36and treated with some level of humanity,
02:39Ravensbrück was a particular horrific site to end up in.
02:47The Ravensbrück trial is important, and it's unique,
02:50because of the treatment of prisoners within the camp.
02:54In particular, the medical experiments that had been carried out
02:57for sterilisations, for example.
03:04Vera's role in the trial is to manage the extensive evidence
03:08she has brought together, passing it on to the prosecutors.
03:16But she must not reveal her role to the international press.
03:35The trial features one of the camp's most notorious SS officers.
03:44Johann Schwarzhuber.
03:47He is about to face one of his accusers.
03:52Barrister, could you please say who this man in front of us is?
03:56Johann Schwarzhuber.
04:00And who is your next witness?
04:04Adette Sansom.
04:09Odette Sansom is a star witness for the prosecution,
04:13giving damning testimony about what happened at the camp,
04:17at the hands of Schwarzhuber and others.
04:22The court hears from Odette and other witnesses
04:27about the treatment of female agent Violette Sabo,
04:31who is described talking about
04:34my baby, my baby,
04:37her young child left behind in Britain.
04:46and how Violette and two other agents,
04:51Lillian Rolfe
04:52and Denise Block,
04:55are brought from the punishment block,
04:58emaciated, dirty, and weak.
05:06They are then taken behind the crematorium building
05:11and shot.
05:14The trial would have been difficult for Vera
05:17as the witnesses took the stands,
05:19although she'd probably already interviewed
05:20some of them previously,
05:22she may have compartmentalised it in some way.
05:26But having seen and spoken to
05:29and befriended the agents
05:30that she had sent into the field,
05:32the realisation of what these women had sacrificed
05:36and what the overarching impact
05:38on their families were going to be,
05:40it must have been harrowing for her.
05:45At the end of the trial,
05:47Schwarzhuber is sentenced to death
05:51and executed on the 3rd of May, 1947.
05:56Five of the female guards
05:58are also executed.
06:01Fritz Suren, the commandant,
06:03remains a fugitive from justice.
06:07But before the closing statements are finished,
06:11Vera is already on her way to try
06:14and track down the last of her lost women spies,
06:17Nor Inayat Khan.
06:31Previously, Vera received a letter
06:34from a French resistance fighter,
06:36Yolande Lagrave,
06:39claiming she had contact with Nor
06:40in a prison in Pforzheim
06:42in the west of Germany.
06:49This directly contradicted Vera's evidence
06:52from crematorium stoker Franz Berg.
06:55He claimed that Nor was killed
06:57at the Natsviler concentration camp
07:00in France.
07:03Vera already has an eyewitness testimony
07:06from Natsviler saying that Nor is dead.
07:08And now she has another eyewitness testimony
07:10saying, no, that is not true,
07:12she is here.
07:12What eyewitness do you trust?
07:15How does Vera make this decision?
07:18She needs some sort of corroborating evidence
07:21to prove one way or the other.
07:26So what did happen to Nor?
07:30Vera needs another witness statement.
07:35So she decides to interrogate
07:38one particular Gestapo soldier
07:40for a second time.
07:44Max Vassmer transported SOE agents
07:48to Dachau concentration camp
07:50in September 1944.
07:56Vassmer claims that he transferred
07:59three women to the camp.
08:01Even though other witnesses say
08:03there was a fourth woman.
08:06A woman from Pforzheim prison.
08:17Three.
08:19You're sure it was three?
08:23Three women.
08:26Not men.
08:27Women.
08:32Because the other guards
08:34say you're wrong.
08:41The receipt
08:42said three women.
08:46That is not
08:47what I asked.
08:48did you take
08:50three women?
08:57Three.
08:58Four.
08:59What's the difference?
09:00It's all
09:01the difference.
09:09So it was four.
09:18three from Carl Sragoa.
09:22And
09:23another.
09:27From
09:30Pforzheim,
09:31I think.
09:36Please tell me
09:37what they looked like.
09:39All of them.
09:44She looked like
09:47she may have been
09:48Indian.
09:59Vassmer describes
10:01the fourth woman
10:04giving a description
10:06of a woman
10:07who Vera believes
10:10is
10:11Nor
10:11Inayat Khan.
10:30Vassmer reveals
10:32that Nor
10:33is taken
10:33outside the camp
10:34with the other women
10:36and made
10:37and made to kneel
10:37in front of a mound
10:38of earth.
10:42The only word
10:43Nor says
10:44before she is shot
10:46is the French word
10:47for freedom.
10:49Liberté.
10:55Thank you,
10:56Herr Vassmer.
11:00We're done.
11:03Vera can now put to rest
11:05her quest
11:06to find out Nor's story
11:08and her final resting place,
11:10the concentration camp
11:12at Dachau.
11:21Now,
11:22Vera must ask
11:23the hardest question
11:24of all.
11:26Who betrayed
11:27her women agents?
11:30Who is the person
11:32that betrayed Nor,
11:35Violette Sabo,
11:37and all of Vera's
11:39other women spies,
11:41so they ended up
11:42in the hands
11:43of the Nazis?
11:46Could it have been
11:48Henri Derricourt?
11:50There were allegations,
11:52but Vera
11:53still doesn't know
11:54for sure.
11:58The man who would know
12:01is Hans Kiefer,
12:05the man in charge
12:06of Nazi intelligence
12:08in Paris.
12:12To find him,
12:14Vera needs
12:15the SAS.
12:23SAS intelligence officer
12:25Major Bill Barkworth
12:26and his men
12:27stake out a small town
12:29in southern Germany.
12:34They've received
12:35a tip-off
12:36from Vera
12:36that Hans Kiefer
12:38has been spotted here.
12:40It is Kiefer's
12:41hometown.
12:42They're looking
12:43for the caretaker
12:44of a local hotel
12:46who signs
12:47the town hall register
12:48as Hans Kiefer.
12:50The name
12:51is suspiciously similar
12:53with only one F
12:54removed.
13:24I've seen a november
13:43Hans Joseph Kiefer, Senior Counterintelligence Officer, 84 Avenue 4, Paris.
13:55Yeah.
14:00Get him out of here!
14:04Barkworth and Vera have their man.
14:08Now, it is their chance to find out who betrayed all of Vera's women agents.
14:18It is January 1947.
14:22Vera is face to face with her secret enemy, Hans Kiefer.
14:29Hans Kiefer is a lifelong Nazi, so he joined the Nazi party in the early 1920s, so very, very early
14:35on.
14:36And he rises to become, during the war, the head of the Gestapo and SS operation runner in Paris.
14:46So this was an operation specifically aimed at hunting down mostly special operations executive agents in the field, so agents
14:55of the SOE in France.
14:57But the thing about Hans Kiefer is he's a fascinating individual because he's not like you would imagine your archetypal
15:03SS bruiser.
15:05He's a subtle, wily, clever fox.
15:11Vera has waited almost two years for this moment.
15:15The chance to interrogate the man who could answer all her questions.
15:22The man who holds the key to her lost women spies.
15:25And what really happened to Knorr, codename Madeleine.
15:34Berlin considered the French section of SOE particularly dangerous.
15:39Both the Führer and Himmler had shown a personal interest.
16:08I remember, Madeleine.
16:16refused to cooperate
16:20unlike the others
16:25she tried to escape
16:27with a group of male agents
16:31it would have ruined us
16:32if she made it back to SOE
16:35ruined me
16:38so I
16:39sent her away
16:43she ended up in
16:45Fortsam I think
16:51she was a brave one
17:00her name
17:01was Noor Inayat Khan
17:05she is most likely dead
17:09shot through the head
17:11at Dachau
17:19Kiefer if one of us is going to cry
17:21it is going to be me
17:23you will please stop this comedy
17:31who betrayed them Kiefer
17:34who betrayed Noor
17:39you're asking me
17:42if there was a traitor in your ranks
17:48why are you asking me
17:52you know yourself
17:54you know yourself
17:54there was one
17:57you recalled him to London
18:01Gilbert
18:02and who is Gilbert
18:11well I think you know
18:15of course you know
18:19only
18:20dare he call
18:25did you pay him
18:28yes
18:31everyone has their price
18:33don't they
18:40here
18:41at last
18:42is Vera's definitive proof
18:45that Henri Derricor
18:46is the double agent
18:48don't worry
18:49don't worry Derricor
18:50we'll clear this whole
18:51sorry business up
18:52thanks
18:54despite Buckmaster
18:55and Boddington's investigation
18:57clearing him
19:04there is no doubt in Vera's mind
19:06that with all the resistance
19:07evidence coming in
19:08all of the information
19:10that Kiefer knows about Derricor
19:12obviously now
19:13for Vera
19:15she knows Derricor
19:17is the mole
19:18he is a double agent
19:19he's the reason
19:21that all of her agents
19:22or a lot of them
19:23ended up in concentration camps
19:25he's the reason
19:26that they were murdered
19:27and the anger
19:29that must have pulsed
19:30through her at that point
19:31this isn't a sinking feeling anymore
19:33this is something
19:34that she needs justice for
19:38now
19:39Vera has a star witness
19:40who can testify against
19:42and hopefully convict
19:44Henri Derricor
19:55June 1948
20:02Henri Derricor
20:03is brought to trial
20:05in Paris
20:10here is Vera's chance
20:12for justice
20:14Vera had spent
20:16the last few years
20:17building up her case
20:18against Henri Derricor
20:20I mean she had everything
20:21now she was a civilian
20:23obviously
20:23she wasn't leading
20:24the prosecution
20:25so she couldn't determine
20:26what evidence
20:27they were going to use
20:28in court against him
20:29but she had so much
20:30she had like affidavits
20:32from actual Nazi war criminals
20:34who named him
20:35she had all of the evidence
20:37that she'd gathered
20:38from her own agents
20:39she had all the evidence
20:41from the French resistance
20:42Henri Derricor
20:44was at the centre
20:45of this web
20:46of lies
20:47and she could prove it
20:48it was all right there
20:50she must have felt
20:51so confident
20:52when they entered
20:53the courtroom
20:54but it is soon clear
20:56it may not be as easy
20:58as Vera hopes
21:02it's now been over a year
21:04since Vera interrogated
21:05Hans Kiefer
21:07she is told
21:09that in June 1947
21:11Kiefer was convicted
21:13of the murder
21:14of five SAS men
21:15and executed
21:17before he can give evidence
21:19at the Derricor trial
21:24Hans Kiefer
21:25would have known
21:26more than anybody else
21:27about every single agent
21:28who was arrested
21:29when
21:29and how
21:31and the radio game
21:32and also
21:32what informers
21:33he was using
21:34so one might think
21:36that his evidence
21:37would have been
21:38or a statement at least
21:39would have been
21:40crucial
21:40to the eventual trial
21:42of Henri Derricor
21:43as a traitor
21:47I mean there's a potential
21:49conspiracy theory
21:50around the fact
21:51that he was
21:52deliberately executed
21:53so that he couldn't
21:54reveal the full extent
21:56of the SOE failings
21:58and disastrous infiltrations
22:02next
22:02Vera discovers
22:04the statement
22:04which she extracted
22:06from Kiefer
22:06is not going to be put
22:08before the court
22:10finally
22:11no former SOE officers
22:13will appear in court
22:15to give evidence
22:20but
22:21on the final day
22:22one former officer
22:24does make the trip
22:25to Paris
22:29none other
22:30than Nicholas Boddington
22:37could Boddington
22:39be the man
22:39to help get
22:41Derricor convicted
22:49Boddington
22:51gives evidence
22:52but instead of
22:53giving evidence
22:54against Derricor
22:55Boddington testifies
22:56that Derricor's
22:58contact with the Nazis
22:59was fully authorised
23:01for counter-espionage
23:03purposes
23:09Henri Derricor
23:10is found
23:11not
23:12to be a traitor
23:13instead
23:14partially thanks
23:16to Boddington's testimony
23:17he is acquitted
23:19Derricor
23:20is a free man
23:23Vera
23:24has to face
23:25the possibility
23:26that her women agents
23:28were compromised
23:29so that Derricor
23:30could supply intelligence
23:32to London
23:32about the Nazis
23:34put yourself in Vera's boots
23:36she's been trying
23:37to prosecute
23:38Henri Derricor
23:39for years
23:39and here
23:40it's almost like
23:41a farcical trial
23:42and not only
23:43does the prosecution
23:44not really try
23:45and pin him down
23:46and brings virtually
23:47no witnesses
23:48but the defence
23:49they bring Boddington
23:51like this is a man
23:53that Vera's worked with
23:54and he knows
23:55what she's been doing
23:56he knows
23:57that she's desperately
23:58been trying to bring
23:59justice to all the women
24:01who
24:01some of them
24:02were tortured to death
24:03and she feels
24:05responsible for that
24:06because she's the person
24:07who sent them out there
24:08how could you nick
24:10Vera
24:11how could you support
24:13that traitor
24:14testify for him
24:16after everything he did
24:17to my agents
24:18our agents
24:19Vera
24:20you're a liar
24:21everything I said
24:23was true
24:24you're a liar
24:26Vera
24:26Derricor's contact
24:27with the SD
24:28was authorised
24:30I sent my girls
24:31to war
24:32with no protection
24:33under the Geneva Convention
24:35if they were made
24:36as spies
24:37they faced
24:38certain death
24:39you sent them
24:41to their deaths
24:43you sent a widow
24:44with a young daughter
24:44to France
24:46that child is now
24:47an orphan
24:49you pulled Nora
24:50out of training early
24:51because you needed
24:51a wireless operator
24:54you volunteered
24:55for this job
24:55begged Buckmaster
24:57to play with the big boys
24:59don't forget that
25:02I don't know you nick
25:04you never did
25:07it appears
25:09that the men
25:10at the top
25:10of the British establishment
25:11want the true story
25:13of the women spies
25:15to be lost
25:16permanently
25:20but others
25:21are now interested
25:22in what happened
25:24to Vera's spies
25:26in the early 1950s
25:29writer
25:29Jean Overton Fuller
25:31begins researching
25:32a series of books
25:33about the SOE
25:36Jean wants to find out
25:38what happened
25:39to her friend
25:40Noor Inayat Khan
25:41who disappeared
25:42during the war
25:43after telling Jean
25:44she was going away
25:49despite being warned off
25:50by establishment figures
25:52Fuller interviews
25:53former members
25:54of the SOE
25:56and one man
25:57in particular
26:04Codename
26:05Gilbert
26:08Henri Derricourt
26:13Her work results
26:14in three books
26:16about the SOE
26:17with the last called
26:18Double Webs
26:19published in 1958
26:23The book makes the controversial claim
26:26that Noor
26:27and other agents
26:28are sent by the SOE
26:30into the hands
26:32of Henri Derricourt
26:33with the full knowledge
26:35that Derricourt
26:36is a double agent
26:38working with
26:40the Nazis
26:44The book makes headlines
26:46Delivery for Mrs Ward
26:48Several MPs receive letters
26:50from the families
26:52of lost women spies
26:53wanting to know
26:54the whole truth
26:55about their daughters
27:02One MP
27:03is Conservative member
27:05for Tyneside
27:06Irene Ward
27:11through the Home Office
27:13requests an interview
27:15with someone
27:15who knows
27:16what happened
27:18The Home Office
27:19sends Vera
27:32Overton Fuller
27:34writes
27:34and I quote
27:35I have read the book
27:36Mrs Ward
27:43It's a shame really
27:45that accuracy
27:46appears to be
27:47secondary concern
27:50I find these things
27:51of such importance
27:59You're disputing
28:00that Henri Derricourt
28:02was a double agent
28:03Perhaps you could ask
28:05him yourself
28:05I'm sure Miss Overton Fuller
28:08could direct you
28:09to him
28:13Miss Atkins
28:16What concerns me
28:18is that the SOE
28:19that your superiors
28:21that you
28:23were sending women
28:25to fight
28:25in the full knowledge
28:26they had no chance
28:27to survive
28:28Mrs Ward
28:30What did you do
28:32during the war?
28:34I served my constituents
28:44Atkins
28:46Your mother's name
28:48I believe
28:50Your father's name
28:52Rose
28:55Rosenberg
28:56I took a plug if I'm not mistaken
28:59and you're from Romania
29:01originally
29:04How did a young Romanian girl
29:06like yourself
29:07and I'm so sorry
29:08Mrs Ward
29:09but I have another meeting
29:15Good day
29:15Miss Atkins
29:18See yourself out please
29:24After the meeting
29:25Irene Ward
29:26digs into Vera's
29:28personal history
29:29who she is
29:30where she comes from
29:32and what she really did
29:33at SOE
29:40Irene Ward's digging
29:42threatens to reveal
29:43the story
29:44of the lost women spies
29:46The security establishment
29:48goes into damage control
29:52An academic
29:53called MRD Foote
29:55at the University of Oxford
29:57is engaged
29:58to produce
29:59an official history
30:00of the SOE
30:03MRD Foote
30:05is ex-SAS
30:06He also was captured
30:08in the war
30:09and he was put in
30:10a prisoner of war camp
30:11in France
30:12so he has all of this
30:13direct experience
30:14within the war
30:14but he's also a historian
30:15so he's got that authority
30:17as well
30:18he understands
30:18how to write about history
30:20and he understands
30:21that there are still
30:22some secrets
30:23that must stay secret
30:26His exhaustive work
30:28concludes that
30:29To the question
30:31of why people
30:32with so little training
30:33were sent
30:34to do such
30:35important work
30:36the only reply
30:37is the work
30:39had to be done
30:40and there was
30:41nobody else
30:42to send
30:51Professor Foote
30:52Before the book
30:54is published
30:55Vera speaks to Foote
30:56and persuades him
30:58to omit
30:59her Romanian background
31:00from his history
31:01of SOE
31:06So why does
31:07Vera hide
31:08who she really is
31:09because Vera
31:11is forced
31:12to cover up
31:13not just her public story
31:14and the lost women's spies
31:16but also
31:17the private story
31:18of her family's life
31:32Miss Atkins
31:33I would like
31:34three copies of this
31:35please
31:35one for the war
31:36It was a closely guarded
31:37secret at SOE
31:39that Vera was born
31:40in Romania
31:41rather than the UK
31:46But that wasn't
31:47Vera's only secret
31:58Vera was not born
32:00Vera Atkins
32:03but Vera Rosenberg
32:07Vera is one of three children
32:09of Max and Hilda Rosenberg
32:12who are both
32:13German Jews
32:15Just before the First World War
32:17Max purchases
32:19an estate
32:19and woodmill
32:21in Bukovina
32:22a region
32:23that will become
32:23part of Romania
32:28But after Vera's father
32:30dies in 1932
32:32and with anti-Semitism
32:33in Europe
32:34on the rise
32:35Vera and her two brothers
32:37move to the United Kingdom
32:41where they take
32:42their English mother's
32:43surname
32:44of Atkins
32:48Vera leaves behind
32:49in Romania
32:50an extended family
32:53As the Nazis
32:54take hold of Europe
32:55the family who stay
32:57are in mortal danger
33:01The terror
33:02that people live with
33:03cannot be underestimated
33:05even if they weren't
33:06actually at direct risk
33:08of being moved
33:09to concentration camps
33:10This isn't just
33:11my family
33:12this isn't just
33:13my aunt
33:13and my dad
33:14and my direct family
33:15this is everybody
33:16with Jewish family
33:17who were living
33:18in the UK
33:19and England
33:20at the time
33:20were terrified
33:21about what was going
33:22to happen
33:22to their relatives
33:23and I think
33:24everybody wanted
33:25to do whatever
33:25they could to help
33:30According to a family
33:31story
33:31Vera's family
33:33in the UK
33:33raise a large amount
33:35of money
33:35to help
33:36their European relatives
33:40My dad
33:40and my uncle
33:41and Vera
33:42were very keen
33:43to provide any help
33:44they could
33:45so they obviously
33:46found money
33:46and they found resources
33:47but it was very clear
33:49that by this point
33:50to get money
33:51to get resources
33:51to get a logistical plan
33:53you probably needed
33:54to go
33:55You needed to leave England
33:56you needed to get on a boat
33:58and you needed to go
33:59and practically help
34:02Vera travels to Antwerp
34:04Belgium
34:04in 1940
34:05just as the Nazis
34:07are about to invade
34:17During the war
34:18people would often
34:19store their wealth
34:20in something
34:21that could be more
34:22easily hidden
34:23and transported
34:31Diamonds
34:42For hundreds of years
34:43Antwerp
34:45has been the centre
34:46of the diamond trade
34:47in Europe
34:50Vera is believed
34:51to have converted
34:52to have converted
34:53the money
34:53from the UK
34:53into diamonds
34:55for the family
34:56in Romania
35:01But who are
35:02the relatives
35:03facing Nazi persecution
35:05that Vera wants
35:06to save?
35:16Fritz Rosenberg
35:18is Vera's cousin
35:20Vera's relatives
35:22in the 1940s
35:23faced disaster
35:30The region has been
35:32occupied by Hungary
35:33an ally
35:34of Nazi Germany
35:39under new anti-Jewish laws
35:42Fritz and his wife
35:43Karen lose their passports
35:46They may even be deported
35:48to concentration camps
35:53But without a passport
35:55they are unable to escape
35:56to another country
36:00This rise in anti-Semitism
36:02in the law
36:03is reflected in the population
36:04They wouldn't be able
36:06to trust their neighbours
36:07They wouldn't be able
36:08to trust that at any point
36:10they might be snatched away
36:11in the middle of the night
36:12They could be put on a train
36:14and taken to God knows where
36:15I mean it must have been
36:16absolutely terrifying for them
36:20Karen Rosenberg
36:21contacts a German family friend
36:25someone who has good contacts
36:28with the Abwehr
36:29German military intelligence
36:35Karen is able to obtain
36:37Aryan passports
36:39issued by the Nazi government
36:40for her and Fritz
36:45The Rosenbergs pay the Abwehr
36:47a large sum
36:48about £150,000
36:51in today's money
36:52to get the prized passports
36:57Money that could be the diamonds
36:59that Vera sources
37:00in Antwerp
37:02Karen and Fritz
37:03are able to leave Romania
37:07They are free
37:08but it's a freedom
37:10that comes
37:11at a personal cost
37:20Fritz and Karen
37:21relocate to the safety
37:23of Istanbul
37:26where Vera's brother
37:27Ralph Rosenberg lives
37:32The reason they go to Istanbul
37:34is because of a condition
37:36set by the Abwehr
37:42Vera's brother
37:43is not only working
37:45for an oil company
37:46in Istanbul
37:47but also supplying MI6
37:50with local intelligence
37:56The Abwehr want Karen
37:58to give them valuable information
38:00about Ralph
38:01and MI6
38:10Vera had almost certainly
38:13gone to Antwerp
38:14to raise the money
38:15for Fritz and Karen's passports
38:18the very passports
38:20that allow the Abwehr
38:21to get close
38:22to an MI6 agent
38:25Vera has paid the bribe
38:27she's possibly met
38:30German intelligence officers
38:31face to face
38:32Karen herself
38:34has had contact
38:36with a German intelligence officer
38:38who's asked her
38:39to work for the Germans
38:40It's beginning to look
38:43really suspicious
38:44anyone looking
38:45at this situation
38:46it's going to start
38:48throwing suspicion
38:49on Vera
38:50and on the Rosenbergs
38:52Are they loyal?
38:53What's going on here?
38:55It's opening a Pandora's box
38:59Had it been known
39:00by the SOE
39:01that Vera
39:02had handed over money
39:04to get Aryan passports
39:05from the Abwehr
39:06it would have put Vera
39:08under serious suspicion
39:10of being a double agent
39:14Instead
39:15Vera keeps her family story
39:18a closely guarded secret
39:19And when the British
39:22security services
39:23publish MRD Foote's
39:25History of the SOE
39:27Vera has all mention
39:29of her Romanian family roots
39:32erased
39:34But despite the security service's
39:37best attempts
39:37to cover up the story
39:39of the lost women spies
39:42It's a story
39:43that just won't
39:44go away
39:49After creating controversy
39:51with her book
39:52Double Webs
39:53Jean Overton Fuller
39:54starts researching
39:56a new book
39:57This time
39:58about Henri Derricor's
40:00relationship
40:01not with the Nazis
40:02but with MI6
40:04The book is called
40:06The Checkered Spy
40:08And it claims Derricor
40:10wasn't just
40:11a double agent
40:12but that he was spying
40:14on the SOE
40:16on the orders
40:17of MI6
40:19Derricor
40:20was MI6's mole
40:22at the heart
40:23of the SOE
40:25monitoring everything
40:26they were doing
40:27as MI6 believed
40:29that the SOE
40:31were incompetent
40:35The suggestion
40:36is that members
40:37of the British
40:38security services
40:39knew that the women
40:40Vera trained
40:41like Noor Inayat Khan
40:48like Violet Sabo
40:51like Odette Sansom
40:53were being sent
40:54into the hands
40:55of a known
40:56double agent
41:00but Henri Derricor
41:01never sees the day
41:03that the book
41:04is published
41:32Sub-editor's desk
41:33Sub-editor's desk
41:34Boddington
41:36Yes
41:37It's Buckmaster
41:40Good grief
41:42Been a while
41:44How are you?
41:47Good
41:48Thanks Bucks
41:49You?
41:51Seen the news
41:54Derricor's disappeared
41:56in the far east
41:56plane he was flying
41:58carrying a cargo
41:59load of gold
42:01I think the cause
42:02of the crash
42:03was fuel starvation
42:07No
42:08No
42:08I haven't seen it
42:10What does that mean?
42:15Any survivors?
42:17No
42:18And they can't find
42:20Derricor's body
42:24Wasn't Vera close
42:26to that man
42:26from the SAS?
42:28Sort of thing
42:29they're good at
42:30giving people
42:31a helping hand
42:32into the grave
42:35I
42:35I wouldn't know
42:38Vera and I
42:39don't speak
42:42I think she works
42:43for the UN now
42:45Well
42:46if you hear anything
42:51All that Derricor business
42:53was
42:55very unfortunate
42:57for everyone
43:03It's best that he's gone
43:06Dead men don't talk
43:14Vera Atkins
43:15Vera Atkins
43:15retires
43:16to the south coast
43:17of Britain
43:18moving to Winchelsea
43:20She has a steady
43:22but discreet
43:23stream of visitors
43:24including
43:26Tanya Sabo
43:27the daughter of
43:28agent
43:28Violette Sabo
43:42I received the
43:43George cross
43:44for mother
43:50Odette Samson
43:51was the first ever
43:52woman to receive that
43:58The French also gave
43:59mother the
44:00quadriguer
44:03That was good
44:04of them
44:09And
44:10Noor received
44:11both medals too
44:15There's a memorial
44:16now at
44:16Dachau
44:24And
44:25now you
44:26received your
44:27CBE
44:27Finally
44:29They took their
44:30time didn't they
44:33Are you looking
44:34forward to the
44:34ceremony
44:39We'll see
44:40won't we
44:47I'll leave this
44:48here
44:55I always
44:57drove them
44:57down to the
44:58aerodromes
45:00It always
45:01seemed to be
45:02a summer's
45:03day
45:04I saw
45:05them off
45:08When the
45:09war ended
45:09and when they
45:10didn't come
45:11back
45:11I went
45:11looking for
45:12them all
45:16Missing
45:16presumed
45:17dead
45:21Is such
45:22a terrible
45:22epitaph
45:23for anyone
45:29Can't believe
45:29my time
45:30has finally
45:30come
45:32Been such
45:32a whirlwind
45:36And yet
45:36the adventure
45:37is just
45:37about to
45:37start
45:40Remember
45:41what they've
45:41taught
45:42you
45:42Noor
45:44Yes
45:44Miss
45:45Atkins
45:50There
45:51You're
45:52clean
45:56You're so
45:57smart
45:57Miss
45:57Atkins
45:59You always
45:59wear the
46:00nicest
46:00things
46:04Here
46:06It's yours
46:10May it
46:10bring you
46:11luck
46:18Thank you
46:19Miss Atkins
46:20Are you
46:21ready?
46:25Yes
46:25Miss Atkins
46:27Very good
46:29Very good
46:56To be
46:58lot
47:00I
47:00I
47:22need to
47:25I
47:25know
47:26I
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