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.

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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[Back to Index on death of Himmler]

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