UPI

6 September, 2005

Recently opened British intelligence files reveal an array of German efforts to undermine morale and prepare for an invasion during World War II.

The arsenal included grenades disguised as chocolate bars and bombs concealed in cans of plums, The Times of London reported. There were also explosives hidden in false-bottomed lunch pails and shaving soap.

MI5 files from before, during and immediately after the war have been opened and transferred to the archives.

Christopher Andrew, a Cambridge professor and historian of MI5, told the newspaper some of the items and Nazi propaganda looked more like (the British comedy troupe) Monty Python.

A faked up edition of the Evening Standard dated Feb. 17, 1940, said the Royal Air Force had been destroyed and Parliament had been meeting secretly to decide whether to surrender. There were also leaflets of economy recipes that included frog and the suggestion that the deer in Richmond Park would be killed for food.

I believe German espionage and sabotage of (Britain) actually achieved 100 per cent incompetence in the Second World War, Andrew said.