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British spies in WW2: everything you wanted to know

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Churchill Loved Espionage, He Loved the Unorthodox.

Churchill authorized the setting up of the Special Operations Executive to set Europe ablaze. But he also loved all those deception operations. He used to read some of the transcripts of the bogged conversations at bedtime. Without Churchill supporting that, I think the outcome of the war would have been very, very different.

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