Juliane Aisner was a World War II Resistance Agent, working the Special Operations Executive

Special Operations Executive

The Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...

 (SOE).

French by birth, Aisner was recruited by Henri Dericourt

Henri Dericourt

Henri Dericourt was a French agent for Special Operations Executive. There is ambiguity as to whether he became a double agent for the Sicherheitsdienst , or was working under British instructions.-Life and work:...

 (her friend and former lover) to work with the SOE in Paris in February 1941. Her role was to find safe houses for SOE agents to live and operate from.

By April 1941 the situation in France had changed and Dericourt arranged for an RAF plane to pick Aisner up. She was flown to England for training with the SOE. Having completed her training, she returned to France in a Lysander

Lysander

Lysander was a Spartan general who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC...

 aircraft with fellow female SOE operative Vera Leigh

Vera Leigh

Vera Leigh was a British spy during World War II who assisted the French Resistance. In 1944 she was captured by the Germans and executed.-Early life:...

 on the night of the 14/15 May 1943.

She was highly successful, working alongside Charles Besnard and having completed her mission returned to England in April 1943 with him. In 1944 Aisner and Besnard married.

After the liberation of France, Aisner and Besnard returned to live in Paris where she remained until her death in the early 1980s.