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The Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) was a British World War II organisation . Following Cabinet approval , it was officially formed by ___MASK51___ of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940 , to conduct espionage , sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe ( and later , also in occupied Southeast Asia ) against the Axis powers , and to aid local resistance movements . World War II ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second World War , was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the world ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing ___MASK49___ alliances : the Allies and the Axis . It was the most widespread war in history , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the major participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and ___MASK49___ resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history . ___MASK55___ Francis Alfred Suttill DSO ( 17 March 1910 -- 23 March 1945 ) was a British special agent who worked for the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) inside France . He organized and coordinated the Physician network , better known by his own code name Prosper . He was captured and killed by the Nazis . Espionage ( colloquially , spying ) is the obtaining of information considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information . Espionage can be committed by an individual or a ___MASK41___ ring ( a cooperating group of spies ), in the service of a government or a company , or operating independently . The practice is inherently clandestine , as it is by definition unwelcome and in many cases illegal and punishable by law . Espionage is a subset of " intelligence " gathering , which includes espionage as well as information gathering from public sources . The ___MASK51___ of Economic Warfare was a British government position which existed during the Second World War . The ___MASK51___ was in charge of the Special Operations Executive and the ___MASK56___ of Economic Warfare . In ___MASK49___ operations , reconnaissance is the exploration outside an area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about natural features and enemy presence . Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton , Baron Dalton PC ( 16 August 1887  13 February 1962 ) was a British Labour Party ___MASK89___ and ___MASK10___ who served as ___MASK97___ of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947 . He shaped Labour Party foreign - policy in the 1930s , opposed pacifism , promoted rearmament against the German threat , and strongly opposed the appeasement policy of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938 . He served in Churchill ' s wartime coalition cabinet . As ___MASK97___ , he pushed his cheap money policy too hard , and mishandled the sterling crisis of 1947 . Dalton ' s political position was already in jeopardy in 1947 , when , he , seemingly inadvertently , revealed a sentence of the budget to a reporter minutes before delivering his budget speech . Prime Minister Clement Attlee accepted his resignation , but he later returned to the cabinet in relatively minor positions .