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MI6 agent warned of Hitler-Stalin pact Hitler

MI6 was “dumbfounded” when Nazi Germany signed a non-aggression pact with communist Russia in August 1939 starting the Second World War, according to the new official history of the service.

They had every reason to believe Hitler would never side with Stalin after listening to 20 years of his anti-communist rhetoric.

However an agent called “Baron,” run from Helsinki, Finland, had warned them of secret negotiations in the spring of 1939 and repeated his warning in June....
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)