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Newly released documents detail British plans to kill Adolf Hitler

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From: AP Online
Date: 19980723
Author:ROBERT BARR Associated Press Writer

ROBERT BARR Associated Press Writer
AP Online
07-23-1998
LONDON (AP) _ British agents hatched several plans for assassinating Adolf Hitler in the waning days of World War II, variously considering a sniper's rifle, grenades, a train derailment, and poison, according to newly released documents.

The plans came to nothing and Hitler killed himself in Berlin on April 30, 1945.

``Operation Foxley,'' the assassination plot detailed in a 120-page dossier released today by the Public Record Office, began with a tip from an agent in June 1944 that there might be an opportunity to assassinate ...

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