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Secrets of wartime spies revealed

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The Republic of Ireland considered joining the Allies during World War II, according to a new book.

According to the wartime journal of MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, an agent wrote to Eamon De Valera in September 1940.

The Irish prime minister wrote back to say he was "intrigued" by the idea.

Among the other wartime secrets in the book by Nigel West is that British agents painted one foot blue in an attempt to fool German spies.

This was part of a bizarre trap laid for Nazi parachutists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4235463.stm

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