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A Most Ungentlemanly Way of War: The SOE and the Canadian Connection

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An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization.

All over the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to conduct acts of sabotage and subversion, and raise secret armies of partisans in German-occupied Europe. With the directive to “set Europe ablaze,” the SOE undertook a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the Nazi Gestapo. An agent’s failure could result in indescribable torture, dispatch to a concentration camp, and, ceaselessly, a death sentence.

Even as the SOE’s contribution to the Allied war effort is still debated, and plenty of of its files remain classified, it was once a unique wartime creation that reflected innovation, adventure, and a fanatical devotion on the a part of its staff to the Allied cause.

The SOE has a very powerful Canadian connection: Canadians were among its operatives and agents at the back of enemy lines. Camp X, in Whitby, Ontario, was once a special training school that trained agents for out of the country duty, and an infamous Canadian codenamed “Intrepid” ran SOE operations in the Americas.

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