‘Churchill considered using poison gas’
NZPA-AAP London The British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, considered using poison gas against the Germans in the Second World War, according to a former British intelligence officer. Professor Reginald Jones, aged 77, said in a scientific journal, “Intelligence and National Security,” that he had been present at a War Cabinet committee meeting in 1944 in which Churchill was dissuaded from his proposal.
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Press, 8 December 1988, Page 8
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