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P.G. Wodehouse paid by German Nazis.

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From: United Press International
Date: 19990917
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LONDON, Sept. 17 (UPI)

Long-secret MI5 records released today in Britain indicate that author P.G. Wodehouse, who created the famed charters Jeeves and Wooster, was in the pay of German Nazis during World War II.

The MI5 security service documents found in German Embassy archives in Paris at the end of the war are described by prosecutors at the time as having been sufficient to have put Wodehouse on trial for treason if he had ever returned to Britain.

MI5 reports material about the documents say the material on Wodehouse ``strongly suggests that Wodehouse was ...

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