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[FONT="]"To have SOE run by the Foreign Office would be like inviting an abbess to supervise a brothel"[/FONT][FONT="]
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[FONT="]-Head of SOE Lord Selborne[/FONT]
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As some of you will be aware during the second World War the British Government created an organisation known as the Special Operation Executive. ( For more information go to [/FONT][FONT="]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive[/FONT][FONT="] )In our timeline the Executive was eventually disbanded by Labour PM Clement Attlee however my question is thus;[/FONT]
[FONT="]What if the Special Operations Executive was kept operational, and what type of role would the SOE play?
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[FONT="]I can see it going one of two ways myself, either a) British analogue to the CIA's Special Activities Division under the SIS (with perhaps I think some overlap with the SAS and SBS) or B) as it's own autonemous organisation with officers being seconded to and from SIS, SS and GCHQ on a regular basis-much like how it is now, just with another organisation in the pool.[/FONT]