Mussolini Worked For MI5 Agents
Benito Mussolini may be among history's most notorious fascist dictators, but evidence suggests he worked for British secret services during World War I.Historian Dr Peter Martland says MI5 records show it paid "Il Duce" £100 per week, about £5,000 today,to spread pro-war propaganda via his newspaper.
The Cambridge University academic made the discovery while studying the papers of former agent Sir Samuel Hoare MP.
Mussolini's socialist publication, Il Popolo d'Italia, carried a key voice because it served the factory workers of Milan whose output was essential for the war effort.
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