AN ALLIED LURE
TRAP FOR GERMAN AGENTS Rec 10.30 a.m. LONDON, May 31. General EisenhoAver's car, carrying another officer, was used several times as a lure to trap enemy agents who were believed to have been assignee to assassinate General Eisenhower during the Ardennes break-through. This was revealed by LieutenantGeneral Bedell Smith, the chief of staff states the correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain at SHAEF Lieutenant-General Smith nointed'out that the ruse was intended to capture a special gang rather than to provide General Eisenhower with a "double."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1945, Page 4
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90AN ALLIED LURE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1945, Page 4
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