AWARE OF HITLER BOMB PLOT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21933, 30 January 1946, Page 5

AWARE OF HITLER BOMB PLOT

ALLIED LEADERS ADVANCE NEWS AGENTSVREPORTS SECRET NOW DISCLOSED (11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 20. Hitherto unpublished secret documents reveal that Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt and high Vatican officials possessed advance knowledge of the bomb plot against Hitler months before the assassination attempt was made on July 20, 1944, says the Associated Press correspondent in Nuremberg, gibers mentioned in the documents

as being aware of the plan “Valkyrie” —the code name of the plot—were Field-Marshal Mannerheim, the Finnish President, Marshal Badoglio, of Italy, and General Andorka, of Budapest, and two supporters of General de Gaulle who operated from Budapest under the guise of Vichy officials.

One of Goebbels’ propaganda experts, Dr. Emmanuel Shaeffer, in a sworn statement, declared that the Swedish industrialist who operated as liaison between the anti-Hitler forces and the British Government kept Mr. Churchill informed of developments. President Roosevelt received progress reports from special agents in Switzerland and Admiral Canaris, chief of the German counter-intelligence, gave a direct warning to the Vatican through, the Papal oUlcers in Vienna.

Mr. Churchill, although notified well in advance of the attempt against Hiller, indicated to the Germans that they would not get concessions from the western Allies whatever the outcome of the plot*