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Special Operations Executive, Formed during WW2, Otherwise known as 'Section D, SIS (MI6)'.
The SOE employed the most unusual ideas of the day to defeat the Axis powers in Europe. Mainly training and Equipping frog, Dutch and Belgian resistance groups, they also assigned targets to the teams.
The SOE's tech department was responsible for equipping the SOE spies with the most interesting and unconventional items, ranging from an exploding prized turkey, a piece of pigeon guided paper cut and a small Austrian village that you could fit in a nab sack.