This document provides proof that the arrival and capture of Rudolph Hess was not a complete surprise, 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 deception became all the more apparent when, as the soldier explained in his interview, the reason he was in the vicinity of the landing was to capture Hess. The soldier goes on to explain that all leave had been cancelled and a state of alert declared. Someone was clearly expecting the Duke of Hamilton to receive a visitor even if, as the Duke himself claimed, he was expecting no-one. Readers are invited to submit their comments, speculations and insights to the Open Forum by completing the following details.
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Indeed, by September 28th 1939, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact had formally divided Poland between Russia and Germany. Of these some 15,000 key Polish officers and intellectuals were carefully segregated into the three concentration camps of Kozielsk, Starobielsk and Ostashkov from where they were either murdered or simply 'disappeared'. This location had already been used by the Bolsheviks to facilitate the killing of Czarist officers in 1919. Within two months, finding themselves driven back by Germany as far as the Ukraine, Russia agreed to free all Polish soldiers and allow the reconstitution of the Polish Army. Only 400 were ever returned.