The World - News from Aug. 23, 1987
Britain’s Royal Air Force schemed to kidnap Adolf Hitler in 1941 after intelligence suggested the German leader’s personal pilot was ready to defect, according to the London Sunday Times. The plan was devised after British officials in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia were approached by a man named Kiroff, who claimed to be the father-in-law of Hitler’s pilot, Hans Baur, the newspaper said. Kiroff told them Baur had become disillusioned and was willing to hijack Hitler’s plane. According to documents declassified in 1972, RAF officers put a British airfield on secret standby, but Baur never arrived.
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