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Andy Chatterton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

And actually, interesting, Section 7 officially of MI6 is the accountancy arm.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

So they've hidden this resistance group under an accountancy arm.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

So even if you're looking up Section 7 MI6, you're just going to get accounts rather than ruthless resistors.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

We are very much looking for that paper trail because it has to be paid for.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

There has to be some kind of paper trail somewhere, but we have yet to find it yet.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

Are we confident that you think you will one day?

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

Wouldn't that be amazing?

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

I'm not sure when it will be released if it is, but we'll certainly keep searching because I'd just love to get an idea of just the number of people involved in this.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

Because as I said, it's got the potential to be thousands and thousands.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

I mean, the auxiliary units was, we think about six and a half thousand and the special duties branch about four and a half thousand.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

But this is the potential to be double that at least.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

So yeah, much more than that.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

So this is huge potential to be an amazing story.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

Absolutely nothing.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

Yeah, no, no, exactly right.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

The only thing, as I said, is there's three paragraphs in the official history of MI6 kind of hidden.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

Absolutely nothing from anyone.

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

And actually, you know, it took years and years for the auxiliary units to get recognised and

Dan Snow's History Hit
Churchill's Secret Army

It was only in the mid-2000s that we managed to get them permission to walk past the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, for example.