Incredible WWII StuffGet
this:
MI6 [roughly the British equivalent of the CIA] was accused by senior Foreign Office diplomats of undermining the policy of appeasement with alarmist predictions of Adolf Hitler's war-mongering intentions.In January 1939, one of Sinclair's agents reported that Hitler planned to bring France to heel by sending troops through Holland and Switzerland to get round the Maginot Line defences.
The report was passed to America and other countries, to the fury of Sir George Mounsey, the Foreign Office assistant under-secretary.
He complained: "These secret reports, if accurate, are usually borne out by our own information and therefore, while harmless, of little value; whereas if inaccurate they may lead to serious consequences.
"If action is taken on them the whole international atmosphere may be poisoned and the policy of appeasement jeopardised.Interesting to hear somebody defending appeasement using that word; nobody would dare use it today.
