Jewish extremist plotted to kill Churchill: MI5 files
Winston Churchill
A Jewish extremist, who killed a British minister during World War II, also plotted to assassinate the then Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a bid to shatter the nation’s morale, declassified documents reveal.
Eliyahu Bet-Zuri suggested sending agents of the Stern Gang, a Zionist paramilitary group devoted to forcing the British out of Palestine, to London to kill the wartime Prime Minister, according to the British spy agency MI5 files. In fact, Bet-Zuri suggested that Churchill should be a target in November 1944, The Scotsman reported.
However, the MI5 did not learn of the idea until the following year when another member of the group was arrested and spilled the beans. According to a report by Major James Robertson, from MI5’’s West Asia Section, the suspect revealed: “As soon as he (Bet-Zuri) returned to Stern Group headquarters, he proposed to suggest a plan for the assassination of highly placed British political personalities, including Churchill, for which purpose emissaries should be sent to London.” But Maj Robertson noted: “The above information does not, as you will see, amount to very much. It does, however, I think justify us in assuming that the danger of attempts on the lives of important people here is still one which we must reckon carefully.” Bet-Zuri was hanged in 1945 for murdering Lord Moyne, the UK’s West Asia minister, in Cairo in November 1944.
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