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Article: Churchill 'ordered British agents to murder Mussolini'.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2004
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Byline: JO KNOWSLEY
MUSSOLINI was murdered in a British secret service plot on the orders of Winston Churchill, a new Italian television documentary will claim.
For almost 60 years the official version of events has been that the Italian dictator and his mistress Clara Petacci were shot by Italian partisans near Lake Como at 4.10pm on April 28, 1945. Their bodies were then hung upside-down in Milan.
But it is now suggested that this was a cover-up for a successful British plot to kill Benito Mussolini and recover highly sensitive letters exchanged between him and Winston Churchill during the War.
The documentary, co-produced by Peter ...