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Andy Chatterton

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Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

And most of them, because they weren't called upon,

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

said absolutely nothing.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

There's another example from Yorkshire of a mother who passed away fairly recently who was high up in the WI in Yorkshire.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

She told her family that she was responsible for driving, using the WI as a cover, for driving around Yorkshire, and she used very specific terminology, delivering explosives and weapons to caves all around Yorkshire.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

So there's so much tantalising information out there.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

We know relative... Well...

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

Very little, essentially, as to the size of this group.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

And also what their objectives were.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

What does success look like for Section 7?

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

Because the resistance in mainland Europe had Britain as an island of hope, of a platform from which liberation can come from.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

If Britain had fallen and we were occupied...

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

Is the US going to get involved in the war?

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

If so, the Atlantic Ocean is a big old gap between us and liberation.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

What does success look like for a ongoing resistance?

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

I'd say it's, and again, very much suicidal, but just talks about the bravery of these people.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

I don't know whether they've gone for a longer period of the Official Secrets Act, just because the people they're recruiting were so young.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

But there is, as far as we can see, there's nothing...

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

There's the piece by Keith Jeffery, who obviously had access to official MI6 content that's in the official histories.