World War II Weaponry Interestingly enough, two innocuous prunes
claim to be accepted as one of the secret weapons of World War
II period. Spink, an auction house in London, is selling two
graying prunes that it claims were chosen to be stuffed with
documents or other maps to be passed on to prisoners of war
secretly. As part of the memorabilia sheltered by a British spy
the prunes had been preserved. According to Emily Jackson, the
Spink spokeswoman, the prunes are extremely dry and hard and it
is really astonishing that they have survived. The late Doreen
Mulot, a previous member of Special Operations Executive of
Britain, which was started to steer operations behind enemy
lines, had collected World War II memorabilia such as these
http://www. a2armory. com/ww2-weapons. html of which the prunes
formed a part. The then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and Hugh Dalton had established the executive to carry on
warfare by means other than direct military engagement and it
was referred to as 憈he Baker St