History buffs should find this fascinating:
A British secret agent who offered to blow up Adolf Hitler at the height of the Second World War was dissuaded from carrying out the assassination by MI5, according to newly released wartime archives.
The offer to kill Hitler in a suicide mission was made by Eddie Chapman, a professional criminal and safe-breaker who was trained by the Nazis as a spy and went on to become one of Britain’s most successful double agents, codenamed Agent Zigzag.
The story just gets more interesting from there.
We cant have our people bumping off other heads of government even that "guttersnipe." Its bad form old boy. The next thing you know the other side might try having a go at us. It will never do. Could this have been Churchill's thoughts?
Not sure but I thought the Brits made a movie about Eddie Chapman's safe cracking exploits.
Posted by: Dan | January 10, 2007 at 03:09 PM