An MI5 mistake during the Covid pandemic revealed that Winston Churchill was in on the Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler. Piles of top secret wartime files were placed on the internet during lockdown that covered the attempt by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to blow up the dictator.
Security Service employees charged with sifting out sensitive documents belonging to sister spy agency MI6 missed the ones which contained the 78 year old bombshell secret, and now MI6 chief Richard Moore, known as C, is being pressed to come clean over the Secret Intelligence Service’s part in the attempt on Hitler’s life in 1944 so historians can put the record straight, reports The Mirror.
The UK has always denied being involved in the plot, which was featured in the 2008 Tom Cruise movie Valkyrie, saying it was solely the work of disaffected German officers. But one of the plotters managed to get away and the papers reveal that Lufthansa lawyer Otto John had been recruited as an agent by MI6 two years before the attempt on Hitler’s life under the codename Whisky.
