New Hess Theory Plane and Simple

New Hess Theory Plane and Simple

Report by Susie Kelly
East Kilbride News, 2nd June 1999

MI6 were expecting top Nazi Rudolf Hess the night he landed near East Kilbride, according to bizarre new evidence. Historians are currently exploring a hypothesis that when the deputy fuhrer crashed in Eaglesham on May 10, 1941 the British authorities knew about it.

The new twist comes just weeks after the 58th anniversay of Hess’s mystery flight to Scotland. Hitler’s right-hand man parachuted to Floors Farm during World War Two plunging local farmer Basil Baird into the international limelight. Mystery has surrounded the night-time flight ever since.

At a conference held by the Saumere Society in the Templar Lodge Hotel in Edinburgh recently a keynote speaker argued M16 actually lured Hess to Scotland. Welsh author Nigel Graddon claims to have discovered new evidence after conducting a face-to-face interview with a former M16 secret service agent.

From his his home in Wales, Mr Graddon told the News: “His theory is that Hess’s mission was to form an alliance between Germany and Britain and bring about the birth of a new Golden Age.” Nigel Graddon is now making a documentary on the subject. He believes MI6 experts deliberately orchestrated Hess’s arrival in order to capture the third top man in Nazi Germany.

In a grandiose plan they got experts from the Bodleian Museum in Oxford to forge statements in an ancient book and made sure it got into the hands of Adolph Hitler, he claims. Hess was then lured to Scotland thanks to the statements contained in the ancient book. "The capture of Rudolf Hess was evidently not a complete surprise,” Mr Graddon continued.

“Nor was it due to the combined actions of David McLean, a local farmer and the Home Guard as official records have led us to believe. The official account of Hess’s capture remains far from the truth.”

But local historians this week rejected the idea that wartime agencies in Britain hatched the scheme to lure Hess to this country. Joe Allan, chairman of East Kilbride History Society said: “This latest theory is not something I would agree to without further, and much more concrete, evidence.

“My own personal opinion is that Hess took it upon himself to fly to Scotland. His own position was becoming increasingly marginalised in Germany so I think it was a bid to restore his position within the Nazi Party. Hess thought that if he flew over to Britain he could broker a separate peace deal."

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