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The award-winning investigative series returns, in which Mike Thomson takes a document as a starting-point to shed new light on past events.

Dad'sÌýRevolutionary Army

Monday 5 September 2005
Image from picture gallery of Dad's Secret Army
When Britain 's back was against the wall in the dark days of July 1940 thousands of British civilians were being trained in the arts of garrotting, making bombs and killing quietly with knives.Ìý
Follow this link to view pictures from the gallery relating to this edition
But Document reveals that the targets of this early Dad's Army weren't German but British. This private army of socialist revolutionaries, based at the end of the Piccadilly Line, feared that the British government was roll over like Vichy France. If it did it faced a civil war with this new British Resistance.

The early ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard believed that Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax was leading the call to give in.ÌýMichael Foot, who then backed a guerrilla war, had plans for Halifax if he did. The 93 year-old former Labour leader told this programme: " I'd have killed him ." Document traces members of this left wing militia, discovers government pressure to quash ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ of them and MI5 plots to infiltrate Dad's Revolutionary Army.
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