FBI agents were drafted in to protect him from the shadowy Ghadr organisation for Churchill's 1931 trip across the Atlantic, files at the National Archives at Kew disclose.
FBI agents were drafted in to protect former PM from Ghadr organisation in 1931 India n separatists plotted to kill Sir Winston Churchill during his near disastrous lecture tour of the United States , newly uncovered papers reveal.
It had been known that Churchill received death threats from Indian groups because of his trenchant support for the British empire. Historians dismissed them as nebulous but the files show Churchill was warned of a plot by California-based terrorists who were part-funded by Moscow. 'At a recent meeting of the Society, a list was put forward of four or five persons whom it was thought desirable to remove, and a man who is now wanted for murder in California volunteered to undertake the removal, either of all the four or five persons or of one named individual.
Churchill showing his victory sign in around 1941. FBI agents were drafted in to protect the politician on his visit across the pond in 1931
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