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Krugerrand
10-14-2009, 08:22 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_mussolini

A historian says Benito Mussolini was well paid as a British agent during World War I.

The Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday that Peter Martland of Cambridge University discovered that Mussolini was paid 100 pounds a week by Britain in 1917 — equal to about 6,000 pounds ($9,600) today.

Why can people not adopt the Mind Your Own Business foreign policy?

Guardian article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/13/benito-mussolini-recruited-mi5-italy

SelfTaught
10-14-2009, 08:33 AM
Wow, if this is true, then they bought him CHEAP. Half-million dollars a year? Pfffft.....