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The sweet taste of victory was set to turn bitter and deadly. Chocolate bars, the rationed treats of British soldiers and war-weary citizens, were to be poisoned by the Nazis as part of an elaborate sabotage operation at the end of the Second World War.
The secret files of MI5, which had been closed for the past 70 years, were opened yesterday to reveal a plot to poison chocolate, sugar and Nescafé coffee in bid to keep the embers of the Third Reich burning after Germany's surrender in 1945.
According to the reports released by MI5 to the National Archives at Kew in London, German spies had been equipped with everything from poisoned pills disguised as aspirin to cigarette lighters that gave off lethal fumes when ignited.
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