Courier 6 Quotes

Although there were serious attempts to unify the various strands of the French Resistance, the political situation remained somewhat complex throughout the war. It was into this complicated state of affairs that the first F Section agent of the SOE was parachuted into central France on the night of May 5-6, 1941. In the end, more than 400 SOE agents were sent into France during the course of the occupation, and 39 of them were women. Pearl Witherington was one of those women. Although the SOE trained her to be a courier for a Resistance circuit called the Stationer network, nothing but her own strength, intelligence, and determination could have prepared her for the drastic change in roles that occurred while she was working in occupied France, a change that has made her one of the most celebrated female agents in SOE history

If you make an enemy that you can focus your subjects on, then you can more easily unify them behind you.

I know that it is tea, Jackson. I want to know why a case of fifty boxes of tea was delivered to our safehouse. The secret safehouse that no one is supposed to know about, and certainly isn’t supposed to have deliveries coming up to it, with the courier saying it was addressed to ‘American Spies’!

Life is a collection of mere moments, little things that happen everyday and become a part of you.