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Jean Overton Fuller

1915 – 2009

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Jean Overton Fuller

Writer whose books exposed serious failings in SOE

Roderick Bailey

The Guardian, Monday 18 May 2009

“Of one thing I am sure, where there is real affection there can never be any separation, neither by distance nor even by death itself.

For the links of love are eternal.”

Jean Overton Fuller

Portrait of a teenage Jean

by her mother,

Violet Overton Fuller

With her mother, Violet Overton Fuller

Fuller's books were controversial but she was determined in her research.

With few public documents on which to draw, she interviewed SOE agents and staff at length, and traced and spoke to former German interrogators. She came to know - and like - Déricourt, believing him when he said that he had helped the Germans as a way of protecting what he was doing for the SOE and that senior officers in London had approved it.

Yet her judgment could suffer fro