виноват - доки рассекретили в июле 1998. Это одна из публикаций.
One of the last remaining secrets of the World War II is out, revealed under a policy of open government. Operation Foxley, the plan to kill Hitler, has remained a secret for more than half a century.
It began when an agent in Algeria said that he had a project to kill Hitler. His message says, "we are not mad and this is not, repeat not, a joke."
Explosives, bullets or poison?
By late 1944, a huge dossier had been prepared on Hitler's habits. Contingencies were being considered for poisoning him (by putting a toxin in his tea or impregnating his clothes with a lethal bacteria) or blowing up his car or train, or shooting him on his daily walk towards a teahouse at his mountain retreat.
Pictures of uniforms were also collected which could be used to make disguises and agents were testing chemical and biological weapons.
Debate over assassination
The head of the Special Operations Executive, the agency responsible for operations behind enemy lines, was quoted as being "not exactly optimistic or enthusiastic" about the idea of killing Hitler.
But by the end of 1944, the net of people who might be assassinated had been widened to include most of the German leader's senior staff.
The documents suggest that an attack on the Nazi propaganda chief Goebbels was actually authorised.
A secret debate raged in Whitehall over the plan to kill Hitler. The SOE wanted to give it a try but other political and military leader preferred to bomb Germany into submission. They thought that assassinating Hitler would only turn him into a martyr.
Hitler 'more valuable left in place'
There was also substantial opposition from those who felt that Hitler was more valuable left in place because of his mistakes in managing the war.
One memo by Lieutenant Colonel RH Thornley, code-named X, said that Hitler's value was equivalent to an "almost unlimited number of first class SOE agents strategically placed inside Germany".
Wednesday, July 22, 1998 Published at 23:54 GMT 00:54 UK
British documents reveal plans to kill Hitler
Secret British government documents released today show that Britain drew up elaborate plans during the Second World War to assassinate Hitler after getting detailed accounts of his movements.
The documents show that the plans concentrated on the time he spent at his mountaintop retreat at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps.
They included using a top class marksman to shoot him during his daily stroll, or sending in a team of commandos by parachute.
Other suggestions included poisoning his tea or injecting him with bacteria.
But the ideas, drawn up in the later stages of the war, were abandoned after it was argued that his military blunders made him more useful alive than dead. .