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With the outbreak of war in 1939, Ryder joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and was subsequently attached to the newly-formed Special Operations Executive.
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Like poets before him, he yearned for Greece and effected a transfer to the Special Operations Executive in Cairo with a view to going on there.
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He knew more about the doings of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the ultra-secret wartime outfit devoted to bolstering resistance in Europe, than any man alive, for he had written its history.
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He also has served as Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney for Operations, and as Special Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for Professional Development and Legal Policy, and he advises and trains Assistant U.S. Attorneys on issues involving ethics and the Rules of Professional Conduct.
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