get out of South Africa today, he might not get out at all.
7.01 A.Al- Mi-5 Headquailers: Ch8rigPs Street, London Sir Neville Shaw
dropped the phone, his face ashen. Deputy Director Wilson faced him
from the doorway.
'It's over,' Shaw said quietly. 'After all this time, it's over.'
'What do you mean, sir?'
'Swallow's dead. There's no stopping the secret now.
We've fired our last shell. From Churchill down to me, and all for
nothing.'
'Churchill, Sir Neville? I don't understand.'
'Don't you? Haven't you got it yet, man? Horn is Hess, Hess is Horn.
The great bloody secret. Ever since Churchill, it's been our sacred
charge.'
'Sacred charge?'
'This service, Wilson. My office, particularly. It was mI-5
who ran the original Hess double-cross in 1941. We intercepted the
first letter from Hess to the Duke of Hamilton.'
Shaw lifted two sheets of Paper from his desk. 'Why don't you read
this, old man?, It's a memo to the prime MiniSterTyped it myself while
you were getting tea.'
Wilson stepped forward uncertainly and took the proffered pages.
His eyes widened as they flew over phrases that made his blood run cold.
Dear Mrs. Prime Minister:
In May 1941, Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of the German Reich, flew to
this country to assist in a coup d'etat aimed at the government of Prime
Minister Winston Churchill and King George VI.
mI-5 was aware of this plot almost from its inception, and used it to
buy time to forestall the German invasion of this country [Operation Sea
Lion].
Regrettably, the success of the coup hinged on the participation of
numerous ranking members of the wartime Parliament and the nobility, as
well as a second accession of the Duke of Windsor to the throne. On
11May 1941, Prime Minister Winston Churchill instructed this office
[Secret Finding 5731 to conceal all evidence of this AngloNazi
collusion, on the grounds that exposure of such high-ranking treason
might bring down the government and possibly even prevent American entry
into the war.
Events of the past five days have made the continued suppression of this
information highly unlikely. I must inform you that Rudolf Hess is
alive as of this writing, and is a citizen of the Republic of South
Africa [living under the alias 'Alfred Horn']. Hess may soon reveal
this fact himself, or certain papers unearthed at Spandau Prison may do
so. My best efforts to silence Hess and to destroy the papers have
failed. Hess's current activities fall into the realm of the criminal,
and, if exposed, could put at risk a significant number of British
nationals. The family of Lord Granville, particularly, may soon be made
public in this connection, as it has owned and operated Phoenix AG [a
multinational defense contractor] at the bidding of 'Alfred Horn' since
1947. Other families of the peerage [one of whom boasts a member of
your cabinet] have lent their names to similar enterprises in exchange
for large cash payments, and possibly for ideological reasons as well.
I'm afraid issuing a D-notice at this time would be counterproductive,
however, as it would tend to indicate prior knowledge by your office of
these activities.
The suppression of the Hess information to date has only been possible
thanks to the nerve and foresight of Prime Minister Churchill.
In October 1944, Churchill flew to Moscow for a meeting with Joseph
Stalin. With him he carried copies of assassination orders that were,
to all appearances, signed by Stalin himself. These orders were
actually forgeries fabricated by Reinhard Heydrich's SD.
They were brought into this country by a German-trained White Russian
agent named Zinoviev, and recovered by mI-5 on 11 May 1941.
In Moscow, Churchill warned Stalin that he would inform the world press
that Stalin had ordered the murders of Churchill and King George VI, if
Stalin did not cease making accusations about Anglo-Nazi collusion in
the Hess affair.
Five weeks ago, on the strength of Secret Finding 573, I ordered the
liquidation of Hess's double [the real Alfred Horn] in Spandau Prison.
On my order the Foreign Office file on Hess has been sanitized. I have
placed in my personal safe papers which washed ashore in Scotland on 11
May 1941, which were thought to have been ditched from Hess's plane.
These papers contain the names of many of the British coup conspirators.
The War Office file on Hess contains damaging information on the Duke of
Windsor [which the Royal Family is frightfully anxious to keep buried],
but that file is sealed until 2050. The F.O. file is sealed until 2016.
We should meet as soon as possible: Sir Neville Shaw Director General,
mI-5
P.S. This unfortunate situation has been complicated by the arrest
yesterday of an mI-6
intelligence analyst@who for seven years made available to agents of
'Alfred Horn' some of our most sensitive intelligence secrets, including
copies of American satellite photography. 'three weeks ago, this man
inferred [from information which had been requested by Phoenix AGI that
some type of attack [possibly nuclear] was imminent against the State of
Israel. In a belated fit of conscience, he sent an anonymous warning to
the Israeli Embassy in London. We cannot discount the possibility that
my efforts to liquidate Hess prompted him to attempt some desperate
action against Israel, but I consider this scenario unlikely. 'Alfred
Horn' does have significant uranium holdings in South Africa, but the
possibility that he has acquired a nuclear device is infinitesimally
small.
Deputy Director Wilson looked up at Shaw with horror on his face. 'You
don't really mean to send this?'
Shaw raised his eyebrows. 'of course I do. As far as I'm concerned,
the Hess secret is blown. I'll be sacked tomorrow, so what do I care?
I'm tired of protecting traitors, Wilson. It's time the world learned
what a heroic mission this service performed in 1941. We saved
Churchill and the dnd! I should write it up for the King, man.
We saved England's bloody 7-imesP' The blood drained from Wilson's
