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How I uncovered a plot to defeat Hitler – and now it's a movie

By Ben Macintyre
The Times·
12 mins to read

A dead body, fake identity papers and a far-fetched plan to fool the enemy – dreamed up by none other than Ian Fleming. When Ben Macintyre found a cache of secret documents, he knew the story would make a brilliant book. Next month Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen star in the film version.

On January 28, 1943, a Welsh tramp died in St Pancras Hospital in London. He had eaten a lump of stale bread laced with rat poison in

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