From that moment till Dalton was forced to leave in 1942, Churchill had little or no involvement in Special Operations Executive because of his dislike for Dalton. Dalton informed Attlee on the 2nd March 1941 at a meeting "that the P.M. took no interest at all in this particular branch of my (Daltons) work and regarded it as a bloody bone which has been thrown to me in order to appease the Labour Party"

This just about sums up Churchill's attitude to the whole of Special Operations Executive and flies in the face of populist views.

It has been said that if Churchill could have destroyed Special Operations Executive at that time, he would have. Churchill's attitude to SOE changed the moment Swinton took over, but by then the foundations that Dalton had set were thankfully to see it through the war.

"Winston did not believe much in sabotage" Morton, Churchill's closest aide told Bruce Lockhart in January 1941, "Churchill was only interested in the 'Ultra' intercepts of Secret Intelligence Services, but in little else on the Special Operations side"

The first two allegations they were targeting the right group.  But for the third the Special Intelligence Service unfortunately was, Alan Turing the 'Enigma' boffin the saviour of the military was the one that they referred to

Because of the adverse reaction to Special Operations Executive, it received no help from the regular military that it was eventually to assist.

In fact Special Operations Executive had little in the way of backing.  Unlike that of Special Intelligence Service who through Sir Stewart Menzies of the Foreign Office reported to Churchill on a daily basis.

It was the Foreign Office and Special Intelligence Service that reduced Special Operations Executive's roll in warfare and its effectiveness