The spy who offered to blow up Hitler on a suicide mission

TimesOnLine reports:

MI5 turned down plan by the safe-cracker turned double agent who wanted to end his days in a blaze of glory



A British secret agent who offered to blow up Adolf Hitler at the height of the Second World War was dissuaded from carrying out the assassination by MI5, according to newly released wartime archives.

The offer to kill Hitler in a suicide mission was made by Eddie Chapman, a professional criminal and safe-breaker who was trained by the Nazis as a spy and went on to become one of Britain’s most successful double agents, codenamed Agent Zigzag.

Interesting history.