Has any further evidence or documentation been found to support intriguing reports found in the Guy Liddell Diaries and elsewhere that there was a plot by 17 Polish and two British officers to murder Rudolf Hess whilst prisoner in England? Also an MI5 report that a "...gun battle between Polish soldiers and guards at Mytchett..." took place?
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…7 July I saw de Rema about the Polish plot to murder Rudolf Hess.”
Source: The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II
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…Through routine internal surveillance operations - letter-censorship, wiretaps and informers - MI5 learned at the end of June that seventeen Polish and two British officers had hatched a plot to murder Rudolf Hess. Since Hitler’s defeat of Poland and France most of the exiled Polish Army was stationed in Scotland. On 6 and 7 July Colonel Hinchley Cook of MI5 came down to Camp Z to discuss security against such an attack with Colonel Scott and local garrison commanders. “Code words were agreed upon,” recorded Scott on the 7th, “as warnings that the suspects had left their present locations.”
The Polish officers were stationed with Polish forces in Scotland.
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…The June 1942 move from Mytchett Place was to become notable following the release of MI5 files in 1999. Previously unfounded rumours had claimed that Hess was moved because intelligence reports indicated that a Polish group was planning to break into the Camp Z, kidnap Hess, and beat or kill him by way of revenge for Nazi atrocities in Poland. The MI5 files included a reference to reports of a gun battle between Polish soldiers and guards at Mytchett, although no precise details were given, so the link is not conclusive.”
