The Mithridate resistance network (French : Réseau Mithridate), founded in June 1940 by Pierre Herbinger at the request of the British intelligence service MI6, was one of the most significant resistance networks of World War II. [1] It gathered more than 1,600 agents spread across the entire French territory, Belgium, and northern Italy. [2]
Although a Franco-British network, Mithridate was only attached to the French Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations (BCRA) in January 1942. [3] It was a military intelligence network responsible for providing the necessary information to the general staffs to precede or accompany wartime operations.
The network remained operational until 1945. It included 1,987 accredited agents, of whom 127 died for France and 208 were deported but returned alive. [3] Four of its members were made Companions of the Liberation: André Aalberg, Laure Diebold, Pierre-Jean Herbinger, and François Binoche. [4]
The French Resistance was a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War. Resistance cells were small groups of armed men and women who conducted guerrilla warfare and published underground newspapers. They also provided first-hand intelligence information, and escape networks that helped Allied soldiers and airmen trapped behind Axis lines. The Resistance's men and women came from many parts of French society, including émigrés, academics, students, aristocrats, conservative Roman Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, liberals, anarchists, communists, and some fascists. The proportion of French people who participated in organized resistance has been estimated at from one to three percent of the total population.
Free France was a political entity claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic during World War II. Led by General Charles de Gaulle, Free France was established as a government-in-exile in London in June 1940 after the Fall of France to Nazi Germany. It joined the Allied nations in fighting Axis forces with the Free French Forces, supported the resistance in Nazi-occupied France, known as the French Forces of the Interior, and gained strategic footholds in several French colonies in Africa.

Leopold Zakharovich Trepper was a Polish-Israeli Communist and career Soviet agent of the Red Army Intelligence. With the code name Otto, Trepper had worked with the Red Army since 1930. He was also a resistance fighter and journalist.
Combat was a large movement in the French Resistance created in the non-occupied zone of France during the World War II (1939–1945).

Michel Hollard was a French engineer and member of the French Resistance who founded the espionage group Réseau AGIR during the Second World War.
Gilbert Renault, known by the nom de guerre Colonel Rémy, was a notable French secret agent active during the Second World War and was known under various pseudonyms such as Raymond, Jean-Luc, Morin, Watteau, Roulier, Beauce and Rémy.
André Girard was a French painter, poster-maker and Resistance worker. During the Second World War he founded and headed the CARTE network, also taking "Carte" as his personal codename.
Robert Alesch was a Catholic priest and collaborator with Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
The Réseau AGIR was a World War II espionage group founded by French wartime resister Michel Hollard that provided decisive human intelligence on V-1 flying bomb facilities in the North of France. Thanks to Hollard's reports and information from his agents of the Réseau AGIR, the V1 launch sites located across North-Eastern Normandy to the Strait of Dover, were systematically bombed during Operation Crossbow.
Jacqueline Marié-Fleury is a former member of the French Resistance.

Anatoly Markovich Gurevich was a Soviet intelligence officer. He was an officer in the GRU operating as "разведчик-нелегал" in Soviet intelligence parlance. Gurevich was a central figure in the anti-Nazi Red Orchestra in France and Belgium during World War II.

Leon Grossvogel was a Polish-French Jewish businessman, Comintern official, resistance fighter, communist agitator and one of the organizers of a Soviet intelligence network in Belgium and France, that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. Grossvogel used the following code names to disguise his identity: Pieper, Grosser, and Andre. In the autumn of 1938, Grossvogel became associated with Leopold Trepper, a Soviet intelligence agent who would later run a large espionage network in Europe. Grossvogel established two cover companies, the Foreign Excellent Raincoat Company and later Simexco that would be used by Trepper as a cover and funding for his espionage network. Grossvogel who organised funding for the companies, would later become an assistant to Trepper, organising safehouses, couriers, cutouts and agents.
The Jade-Amicol network was a French resistance network led by Claude Arnould and British officer Captain Philip Keun, created under the auspices of the British Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. It operated from 1940 to 1944.
Claude Maurice Georges Lamirault was an army officer, French Resistance member and intelligence officer. He was the leader and joint founder of the Jade-Fitzroy resistance network with Pierre Hentic.
Gilberte Louise Champion was a Postes, télégraphes et téléphones (PTT) worker and a radio operator in the French resistance during World War II for the Jade-Fitzroy network under the auspices of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). She was captured, tortured and later transported to Ravensbrück and Mauthausen concentration camps.
The Jade-Fitzroy network was a World War II French Resistance network created by Claude Lamirault, supported by Pierre Hentic, under the overall control of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). It operated from 1941 to 1944.
Pierre Yves Marie Hentic. codename "Maho", was a French intelligence agent, Resistance organiser, and army officer. He ran the air and sea operations of the Jade-Fitzroy and Jade-Amicol networks for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in France during World War II.
Service Clarence was one of the most successful MI6 networks in Belgium during the Second World War.
Maurice Duclos, codename Saint-Jacques, was a French soldier, insurance broker, anti-communist militant activist, intelligence agent and founder of the first French resistance network of WWII, also called Saint-Jacques, and two others.
The Orion Network was a French Resistance network during World War II that originated from the la chaine Franco-Belge that was created by Henri d'Astier de La Vigerie and Georges Piron de la Varenne in the autumn of 1940. After being compromised in northern France, it was integrated with the Saint-Jacques network and most operations were moved to the south. Its leaders were at the vanguard of the Allied invasion of Provence.