The 29 fakes behind a rewriting of history

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· National Archives 'Amateurish' false records planted over five years
· Patrols and spy cameras at public reading rooms

Paul Lewis
The Guardian,
Monday May 5 2008


They were the secret intelligence files that turned second world war history on its head with "revelations" of British collaboration with the Nazis.

British agents used the royal family to deceive the Nazis into expecting a pro-German putsch. The Duke of Windsor leaked secrets to help Hitler. And, most sensationally of all, SS chief Heinrich Himmler was murdered by secret agents on Winston Churchill's orders.

The elaborate claims, contained in three separate books by the historian Martin Allen and based on previously unseen documents, read like the stuff of spy fiction. As it turned out, they were.

Details of an investigation by the National Archives into how forged documents came to be planted in their files have uncovered the full extent of deception. Officials discovered 29 faked documents, planted in 12 separate files at some point between 2000 and 2005, which were used to underpin Allen's allegations.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/05/nationalarchives.secondworldwar



SOMEONE should ask Philip Ziegler and David Irving a question or two....