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China Daily | Updated: 2009-10-15 07:55
Was Mussolini MI5 agent?
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini had a brief career as a British secret agent, the Guardian newspaper reported yesterday, quoting research by a Cambridge University historian.
In 1917, Mussolini, then working as a journalist, was paid 100 pounds ($158) a week by security service MI5 to campaign for Italy to continue to fight alongside the allies in World War I.
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