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London, April 4 (IANS) Nazis had hatched a plan to use poisoned coffee, chocolate and cigarettes to kill Allied troops, show newly disclosed intelligence documents.

The Telegraph cited MI5 documents as saying that female agents were to undertake mission to murder senior Allied commanders using microbes hidden in handbag mirrors.

Questioning of captured German agents showed the Nazi security service, the RSHA, had a unit planning subversion operations in Allied countries using assassinations and poisons.

A de-briefing report cited by the Telegraph said the captured agents maintained that some of their colleagues had been handed over various poisons, “not the usual ampoules of hydrocyanic acid, with which agents have been equipped in recent months to commit suicide after arrest”.

They carried a glass tube of Bayer’s aspirin tablets that included one or two that contained poison. “Death was stated to take place ten minutes or so after one of these had been swallowed,” said the report.

The person to be targetted would be cajoled to take the aspirin after smoking specially prepared cigarettes that would give them a headache.

“The agent was also to smoke one of the cigarettes and would take one of the real aspirins from the tube,” said the document.

Another method to kill was a powder that had to be placed on door handles, books and desks.

Yet another powder could be used “for example by waiters” to dust a room. It caused death if swallowed but not inhaled.

The media report said that Nescafe, sugar, cigarettes and the German chocolate called “Sarotti” had also been poisoned.

The US 20th Corps mentioned they had found a pistol made to resemble a belt buckle.

“The cover drops down and by pushing a button, a two-barrelled .32 pistol flips out, pointing directly to the front.

“By means of pressing two more buttons, the weapon can fire two shots.”