List of Special Operations Executive operations

This is a list of Special Operations Executive operations in World War II.

Albania Bernard (1943) – Albania, partisan support Cameron (1943) – Albania, partisan support Consensus (1943) – Albania, partisan support Consensus II (1943) – Albania, partisan support Cooperation (1943) – Albania, partisan support Figure (1943) – Albania, partisan support Gunman (1943) – Albania, partisan support Primus (1943) – Albania, partisan support Sapling (1943) – Albania, partisan support Sconce (1943) – Albania, partisan support Sculptor (1943) – Albania, partisan support Slender (1943) – Albania, partisan support Spillway (1943) – Albania, partisan support Spinster (1943) – Albania, partisan support Stables (1943) – Albania, partisan support Stepmother (1943) – Albania, partisan support Swifter (1943) – Albania, partisan support Vertebrae (1943) – Albania, partisan support

Austria Operation Bongo (1945) – Austria, Operation to secure a vault containing many of Europe's art treasures. Clowder (1943–45) – 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 (1945) – Austria, 16 March investigation of general conditions of the underground socialist movement in the Sudetenland; fate unknown but thought to have been captured. Danbury (1945) – Austria, 13 August sabotage of enemy lines of communication in Drau valley, based at Klagenfurt; eventually returned to Bari. Operation Denver (1944) – Austria, 8 May contact with resistance groups in Sudetenland and establishment of communications. All agents lost through betrayal. Drybrook (1945) – Austria, 13 August establishment of W/T links in east Tyrol; dropped in error to Germany and returned to UK. Duncery (1945) – Austria, 24 April preservation of Zeltweg Aerodrome for the Allies, in the event unnecessary through work of local anti-Nazi groups. Duval (1945) – Austria, 16 February to contact underground organisation in Salzburg and assist in sabotage; party captured. Ebensburg (1945) – Austria, 8 February organisation of local sabotage with Maquis; capture of Bad Aussee four days before US arrival. Electra (1945) – Austria, 23 March to contact the underground socialist movement, Vienna; W/T contact never established. Evansville (1945) – Austria, 7 February support to movement in Graz, and arrangement for agents in Italy; believed killed and underground organisation crushed. Greenleaves (1945) – Austria, 2 April group based at Klagenfurt; dropped successfully but documents and photos captured; evacuated to Bari. Hamster (1945) – Austria, 21 April arming of small resistance groups for attacks on road and rail transport; reported working in Klagenfurt. Haras (1945) – Austria, 30 July to join Communist underground in Innsbruck, establish radio links. Unsuccessful, W/T not dropped and agent attacked. Historian (1945) – Austria, 24 April attack against communication lines in Klagenfurt. Pyx (1945) – 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 (1945) – Austria, 12 October establishment of safe route to Salzburg and encouragement of resistance in Salzburg; dropped to Germany by mistake. Temple (1945) – Austria, 13 August establishment of contacts in frontier area; fate unknown.

Belgium Aemilius (1944) – Belgium, 3 August 1944, field name Lucie, Rockfort-Marche region. Aeneas (1944) – Belgium Agamemnon (1944) – Belgium, January/February 1944, field name Suzanne, Tournai, liaison mission with Cufflinks mission, captured. Agrippa (1944) – Belgium, 5 March 1944, field name Brooch, W/T mission. Alarbus (1944) – Belgium, 3 June 1944, field name Locket, Ciney/Marche region. Alcibiades (1944) – Belgium, 5 August 1944, field name Ida, Halle/Nivelles region, provision of instruction in sabotage. Alsatian (1943) – Belgium 21–22 April 1943, Briquet. Mission members killed on impact. Aimed at encouragement of resistance in industry. Antenor (1944) – Belgium, field name Tiepin, Gemblaux. Apemantus (1944) – Belgium, February/March field name Monique, Beauriang region, liaison with resistance groups. Arboretum (1944) – Belgium, agents executed, few details of exact mission. Armadillo (1944) – Belgium, 6 August field name Gavotte, Ardennes region. Association (1941–1942) – Belgium, infiltration of agent to Belgium through Lisbon; paid off after attempt at usage . Aufidius (1944) – 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 (1941) – Belgium, few details in files, mission cancelled after several failures. Baboon (1942) – Belgium, 17 November Political Intelligence Department mission to encourage peasant resistance. Badger (1943) – Belgium, February Liège Province region, reception committees, communication with Secret Army; agent deemed 'irresponsible'. Balaklava (1941) – Belgium, September–October W/T support to Outcaste at Neufchâteau, discovered by Germans. Balthazar (1942–1944) – 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 (1944) – Belgium, May field name Violette, to work to Nelly, sabotage instruction, including derailment of trains. Bernardo (1944) – Belgium, 4–5 July Brussels region, messenger to chief of Secret Army, field name Nina. Bianca (1944) – Belgium, 28–29 June field name Diane, sabotage instruction. Borzoi (1943) – Belgium, 20 December 1942, Brussels and Tournai, to extend Flemish clandestine press, reception committees; agents escapes to Geneva, March . Brabantio (1944) – Belgium, July or August filed name Odette, principal delegate to occupied territory for organisation of sabotage. Buckhound (1943) – Belgium, W/T support, Military Zone IV, Brussels. Bullfrog (1943) – 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 (1944) – Belgium, August field name Stephanie, sabotage instruction to Huguette, Brussels and Liège Province region, captured, escaped. Calf (1943) – Belgium, January aimed at the creation of links to secret army, Hainaut, but a possible security breach. Calpurnia (1944) – Belgium, July–August field name Courante, W/T support to Huguette group, Hainaut Province. Canidus (1944) – Belgium, June W/T to Delphine mission. Canticle (1942) – Belgium, March with Duncan, Mastiff, Incomparable; courier, and W/T support arrested; later agents reported to have been beheaded. Caphis (1944) – Belgium, January field name Herminie, probably a stage mission, captured. Carical (1942–44) – 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 (1944) – Belgium, July field name Celeste, to provide a messenger link for communications from the Minister of Finance. Cawdor (1944) – Belgium, February–March field name Roland, accompanied by Necklace, to provide a courier service. Cayote (1942) – Belgium, (?) May for organisation of motor sabotage, Brussels, accompanied by W/T mission Duncan. Celeste (1944) – Belgium, July carrying messages from the Belgian Minister of Finance. Chicken (1941) – Belgium, August field name Tante Caro, creation of organisation based on passive resistance and sabotage in the Antwerp area. Chiron (1944) – Belgium, April field name Sash, W/T mission; arrested. Cimber (1944) – Belgium, August field name Yvonne, transmission of microfilmed messages. Civet (1942–44) – Belgium, also known as mission Stanley, report on strength of secret armies at request of Hubert Pierlot. Claribel (1941) – Belgium, March preparations for possible use of Belgium by enemy forces as a springboard for the invasion of Britain. Claudius (1943) – Belgium, July to contact resistance groups - FIL, Mouvement national belge (MNB), Groupe G, and offer financial support. Coal/Turtle (1943) – Belgium, January abortive mission to steal German fighter aircraft, Brussels. Collie (1942) – 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 (1944) – Belgium, March–April field name Mitten, Huy, Ardennes region, W/T mission. Conjugal (1941) – Belgium, September to organise sabotage and contacts, but captured. Cordelet (1943–44) – Belgium, mission to social and democratic trade unionists, to encourage resistance, and organise a go-slow of Belgian workers in Germany. Coriolanus (1944) – Belgium, April–May field name Handbag, W/T mission. Daniel/Marmoset (1942) – Belgium, January sabotage organisation for Periwig. Daranus (1944) – 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) (1943–44) – Belgium, PID mission, to stimulate slow down in production in the industrial areas of Charleroi, possible security breaches by agent. Dolabella (1944) – Belgium, July/August field name Ursule, work in organising reception committees with Simone. Donaldbain (1944) – Belgium, August field name Foxtrot, W/T mission accompanying Odette mission. Duncan (1942) – Belgium, October attempted infiltration of agent to Belgium via Portugal through a staged desertion; contact eventually lost. Emelia (1944) – 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 (1944) – Belgium, field name Polka, W/T support to Constantine mission. Eros (1944) – Belgium, August field name Reel, W/T support. Euphronius (1944) – 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 (1944) – Belgium, October 1943, field name Jacqueline, arrested mid- Flavius (1943) – Belgium, -44, field name Bib Red, W/T mission. Fortinbras (1943) – Belgium, field name Bracelet, little detail of mission provided in relevant files. Gibbon (1942) (1942) – Belgium, -44, PWE mission, organisation of carrier pigeon communication systems. Glamis (1944) – Belgium, April field name Josephine, Huy, Andenne region, adjunct to Service Hotton sabotage group. Gratiano (1944) – Belgium, January, field name Ping Pong, W/T operator for Samoyède II, based Brussels. Greyhound (1942) – Belgium, -45, organisation of escape routes through France to Spain (also known as WOODCHUCK and ANTOINE). Griffon (1943) – 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 (1943) – Belgium, October field name Wig, with Flaminius, arrested. Gypsy (1942) – Belgium, September 1941, to organise reception committees, VERMILLION courier routes, arrested (?) May . Hecate (1944) – 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 (1944) – Belgium, August field name Jeannine, Brussels, sabotage instructor for Nola.