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Wodehouse secretly in pay of the Nazis, say MI5 files WARTIME INTELLIGENCE Secret papers reveal author was paid for propaganda work and would have been prosecuted if he had returned to UK

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990917
Author:Paul Lashmar and Peter Day

P G WODEHOUSE, the creator of Jeeves and Wooster, was secretly in the pay of Nazi Germany during the Second World War, MI5 files released today reveal. The previously classified documents disclose that Wodehouse would have been put on trial for treachery had he ever returned to Britain after the war.

Wodehouse, who made a series of controversial if jokey radio broadcasts from Berlin in 1941, later excused himself as being naive rather than a collaborator. However, the documents dispel the widely held notion of Wodehouse as vain but harmless. His MI5 file reveals a more sinister character, ...

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