Did Churchill send secret letters to Mussolini?
Did Churchill send secret letters to Mussolini?
I have twice read notes recently concerning rumours of Winston Churchill writing secret letters to Benito Mussolini urging him not to join the Axis forces. Is there any definite proof that such documents existed? It was also said that Otto Skorzeny gained copies of these papers during his kidnapping of Il Duce from an Italian prison. The claim is that he exchanged these just after the war with Churchill in Vienna.
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i dont know, but i read that otto skorzenny knew about churchill's surrender offers to germany. apparently Skorzenny had someone outside prison who would spill the beans after the war, that churchill wanted to surrender earlier on. so Skorzenny was set free, and set up financially in Spain and eventual obscurity.
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"CARTEGGIO CHURCHILL/MUSSOLINI"
There is no legend or "rumors" in it. Any modern State registers the in/out coming of any"diplomathical envelope" submitted from Country to Country, applying to it a procol ID. All the letters Churchill wrote to Mussolini are registered in Archivio di Stato della Repubblica Italiana, here in Rome. There is a lack ( a registration or protocol ID without the corresponding envelope) for about 20/30 letters dated 1938 and upper.
Surely those letters are the same that Mussolini held in the second hand-bag a little before his death in Dongo affair. This hand-bag containing all the State Archive of RSI was never found till 1985: during that year GB gov.ment submitted part of these documents back to Archivio di Stato della Repubblica Italiana. Nobody knows actually if the stolen Churchill's envelopes returned or not: Italian Gvnmt ordered the full secret extension as State Security Priority to be maintained for other 50 years at last! Understood?What kind of proofs are available for what? Varjag, the evidencies you need now will be at your disposition only after our death.
Surely those letters are the same that Mussolini held in the second hand-bag a little before his death in Dongo affair. This hand-bag containing all the State Archive of RSI was never found till 1985: during that year GB gov.ment submitted part of these documents back to Archivio di Stato della Repubblica Italiana. Nobody knows actually if the stolen Churchill's envelopes returned or not: Italian Gvnmt ordered the full secret extension as State Security Priority to be maintained for other 50 years at last! Understood?What kind of proofs are available for what? Varjag, the evidencies you need now will be at your disposition only after our death.