Wartime Letter Clears Scottish Duke and Mi5 Over Plot to Lure Hess to Uk; Msp: Nazi Chief's Arrival Was a Great Shock to My Father

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SECRET British intelligence documents were used yesterday to shed light on one of the most tantalising mysteries of the second world war - the 1941 flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland.

Conspiracy theorists have suggested that Germany's deputy Nazi leader was lured to Britain by a peace plot hatched by the secret services and a duke.

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Wartime Letter Clears Scottish Duke and Mi5 Over Plot to Lure Hess to Uk; Msp: Nazi Chief's Arrival Was a Great Shock to My Father

However, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, the Tory Lothians MSP, has uncovered recently declassified files showing that neither his father, the 14th Duke of Hamilton - who Hess had travelled to Scotlan...

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