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Documents on the Silencing of Heinrich Himmler

Posted Sunday, June 12, 2005

Document: British SOE recruiting a (possibly German-born) hit man in March 1945

From PRO file HS6/623, the Foxley file; researched for this wsebsite by Steve Kippax

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CIPHER TEL FROM NEW YORK

DESP 1130 22.3.45. RECD 2330 22.3.45. COM 373

TRIBE

FOLLOWING FROM G.11,000

A. HAVE SEEN SUBJECT WHO I SOUNDED OUT ON LINES OF YOUR TELEGRAM 979

B. HE, FAR FROM BEING DISCOURAGED BY MY INTIMIDATIONS OF POSSIBLE TOUGHNESS OF ASSIGNMENT, SHOWED EVEN GREATER KEENNESS.

C. HE HOWEVER WISHED TO MAKE ONE STIPULATION WHICH IS THAT HE WILL NOT FIND HIMSELF OUT OF A JOB ON COMPLETION OF ASSIGNMENT OR IF ?GERMAN WAR ENDS BEFORE OPERATION TAKEN PLACE, SINCE HIS PRESENT INTERESTING AND SPECIALIZED EMPLOYMENT IS GOOD FOR DURATION OF BOTH WARS.

D. HE WOULD LIKE TO GET A PERMANENT CLANDESTINE JOB AND SAYS ? WOULD BE HAPPY TO LIVE IN GERMANY AFTER WAR.

0457 23.3.45 MC.

Related files on this website:

British SOE document, 1944, discusses special poisons and methods of assassinating a single (unidentified) person in home or office
Preview from David Irving, Churchill's War, vol. iii: Mr Churchill's 1944 Planning for Bacteriological Warfare against Germany
Churchill's preparations for poison-gas and anthrax warfare against German cities. And the later controversies over this

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