Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "Get Churchill! The Mystery of Flight 777" video.

  1. Excellent video. Hardly anyone in the military history community has presented much information on Flight 777 until now. There may have been another reason for 777 becoming a target. Despite Leslie Howard's reputation as a ladies man, there have been persistent rumors that he was secretly gay, or at least bisexual. The Germans supposedly had compromising photos of him. If they existed, they would have been devastating to his career and, by extension, the British war effort. An Abwehr agent was going to meet with him in Lisbon to threaten him with exposure if he didn't turn and become a double agent for the Germans. Churchill got wind of this from yet more decrypted Enigma transmissions. Howard was the most popular British male actor of the period, and he served as a spokesman for the British cause. Churchill and MI6 believed Howard had become too big a risk to MI6 operations since he knew many of the British spies operating in neutral Europe. They were also planning the Churchill deception on flight 777. It was going to be a much better outcome for MI6 if Howard was aboard 777, since he would go down in flames as a hero, and his death would cause yet more anti-German feeling in Britain. All this is just one part of a swirl of rumors about 777. I've never been able to find any solid proof for any of this. All the information supposedly came from people now long dead, and who had good reason to try to remain anonymous. It's a good example of how intelligence agencies in WWII, and I'm sure up until now, plan tissues of lies until no one knows the real truth.
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