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<div id="ctl00_cphBody_dvSummary" class="articleSumm"><strong>Jewish extremist proposed assassinating Britain&#8217;s WWII leader while Nazis planned to poison sausages, secret files show.</strong></div>
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<p>A Jewish extremist group proposed assassinating Winston Churchill,  Britain&#8217;s war-time leader, declassified files from Britain&#8217;s spy agency  have revealed, along with plans by the Nazis to poison food as part of a  post WWII sabotage operation.</p>
<p>Eliyahu Bet-Zuri, who was hanged in 1945 for murdering Walter  Guinness, also known as Lord Moyne, a British government minister in  Cairo, suggested a plan to kill a number of &#8220;highly placed British  political personalities, including Churchill&#8221;, records released on  Monday showed.</p>
<p>Major James Robertson, who worked for the MI5 Middle East section,  wrote that threats made by Bet-Zuri in November 1944 were revealed by a  member of the Stern Gang, an armed Zionist group that fought against the  British presence in Palestine.</p>
<p>Robertson said the suspect told them that: &#8220;as soon as he [Bet-Zuri]  returned to Stern Group headquarters he proposed to suggest a plan for  the assassination of highly placed British political personalities,  including Mr Churchill, for which purpose emissaries should be sent to  London.&#8221;</p>
<p>In February 1946 Britain&#8217;s defence security officer in Palestine sent  an encrypted telegram to London revealing a plot to kill ministers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Stern Group are training members to go to England to assassinate  members of His Majesty&#8217;s Government &#8230;Stern further reported to be  receiving practical sympathy from important Jews [in] Palestine,&#8221; he  wrote.</p>
<p>&#8220;A steady flow of recruits for Stern being received in this connection.&#8221;</p>
<p>MI5, Britain&#8217;s intelligence agency, was concerned that Zionist groups  might assassinate other British politicians after the death of Guinness  in 1944 and when Irgun, a Jewish resistance group, killed 91 people in  the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in July 1946.</p>
<p><strong>Thwarted plans</strong></p>
<p>Meanwhile  other files also released on Monday showed that the Nazis plotted to  poison sausages, chocolate, sugar and coffee as part of a sabotage  operation in the US and postwar Europe.</p>
<p>A group of men trained in bomb making and carrying explosives were  sent to the US in June 1942 to undermine the American war effort, but  were spectacularly unsuccessful.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was not brilliantly planned,&#8221; Edward Hampshire, a historian at  Britain&#8217;s National Archives, which released the wartime intelligence  documents, told the AP news agency.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Germans picked the leader for this very, very poorly. He immediately wanted to give himself up.&#8221;</p>
<p>The mission, code-named Pastorius, was supposed to see a group of  eight Germans begin a campaign of sabotage against factories, railways  and canals and Jewish-owned shops.</p>
<p>But the seeds of failure were sowed early on in the mission, when the  group left their camp in Germany and went to Paris, where one of the  team got drunk and &#8220;told everyone that he was a secret agent&#8221;.</p>
<p>The submarine dropping half of the group on Long Island, in the US,  ran aground leading MI5 to write &#8220;it was only owing to the laziness or   stupidity of the American coast guards that this submarine was not  attacked by US forces&#8221;.</p>
<p>Another team sent to Florida made it ashore but their leader, John  Dasch, had decided to surrender. According to the files he rang the FBI  in Washington and said he was a saboteur and wished to tell his story to  J Edgar Hoover, the FBI chief.</p>
<p><strong>Poison sausage</strong></p>
<p>Later on in the war, a captured French Nazi spy told his  interrogators that collaborators were planning a violent campaign across  Western Europe that would &#8220;eventually lead to state of civil war in  which Fourth Reich would re-emerge&#8221;.</p>
<p>German agents arrested in northern France in March 1945 also revealed  a range of deadly poisons including special cigarettes that caused a  headache, allowing the Nazi to offer an poison &#8220;aspirin&#8221; tablet that  would kill the victim in 10 minutes, and fatal poison powders that could  be sprinked into food or onto surfaces.</p>
<p>There were also plans to contaminate alcoholic drinks with methanol,  inject sausages with poison and prepare &#8220;poisoned Nescafe, sugar, German  cigarettes and German chocolate&#8221;.</p>
<p>The files suggest British agents were unsure how much credence to  give some of the more fanciful claims, though a memo was drawn up  advising that Allied soldiers should not eat German food or smoke German  cigarettes &#8220;under pain of severe penalties&#8221;.</p>
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