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The Prussian prince, the MI6 spy and the plot to kill Hitler

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What Have You Learned as Part of the Research for This Case?

A historian called nigel west, as his pen name used to be, atory m p discovered this remarkable file on one of the plotters that i called otto john. He got away to spain and then portugal after the failure of the and british intelligence picked him up there. And for a long time, it was thought that he was just a high level defector. But in the course of researching this case, what nigel west has found is otto on recently classified m i five file, which shows that actually he was an m i six spy.

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