Operation Lena & Hitler's plots to blow up Britain

O'Connor, Bernard, 1952-2017

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Home-grown terrorists equipped by a foreign power is not a new phenomenon. Hitler's Germany made sustained efforts to destabilise and inflict a terror campaign on the streets of Britain through the use of secret agents and agent provocateurs. The aim, to blow up military, industrial, transport and telecommunication targets in Britain, to lower morale among the civil population and affect the war effort. Even before the outbreak of war, the Nazis provided the IRA with assistance for their plan to sabotage the British mainland. Prior to their planned invasion in the summer of 1940, the Nazis were keen to recruit members of the Welsh and Scottish Nationalist Parties to engage in sabotaging British targets and over the course of the war infiltrated dozens of trained agents from countries including Norway, Denmark, Holland, France and Cuba.