Talk:Vera Atkins

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[edit] "Miss Monypenny'

Miss Moneypenny resembles Vera Atkins in no way shape or form. She is in fact generally believed to have been based on the secretary of Menzies the real-life "C", or on Ian Fleming's own secretary. I have deleted this sentence until some respectable citation can be found for it.

[edit] Post WWII

Didn't Vera Atkins continue tracing the missing members of SOE after the war when there was no official interest and SOE had been disbanded? I seem to remember reading that she received a lot of unofficial help from SAS who were also tracing missing people. Quite a number of German war criminals were brought to trial because of her determination. Perhaps someone with more knowledge (or better memory) can add something to the main page. --jmb 21:00, 12 July 2006 (UTC)