Hunton Downs is the author of a book titled "The Glenn Miller Conspiracy: The Secret Story of His Life - and Death." The book contains his research into a cover-up in the death of famed big band leader Glenn Miller. Downs contends that Miller wasn't killed in a plane accident over the English Channel in 1944-- that was a story made up by the US government, because they didn't want the public to know how he really died.
Downs suggests that Miller, who spoke German, had been enlisted by Eisenhower to serve as a secret envoy, to try and convince some German officers to end the war early and offer terms of armistice, but Hitler got wind of the effort, and Miller was captured. Miller was eventually taken to a Nazi-controlled brothel in Paris, where he was interrogated, tortured, and killed. Reportedly, some US soldiers saw Miller's body dumped there. The cover-up was intended to save embarrassment about his being found in a brothel.
I haven't read the book, but since I work late at night, I often listen to the Coast-to-Coast radio program. The radio host had Hunter Downs as a guest, and this is the first time I had ever heard of the Glenn Miller mystery.
3 comments:
I hadn't heard any of this. Conjecture makes for great fiction, and non-fiction for those who love conspiracies. I am not much of a believer in conspiracies.
Kim's comment (under Alan's name):
I had never heard of this either. Although not impossible, it sounds a little far fetched to me.
After more research, thanks to the internet, yet another theory is that it was not a plane accident but rather shot down by accident courtesy of the US military. One Clarence Wolf, then a radar operator, confesses in his book, "I Kept My Word", that he was instructed not to say anything after he witnessed the erroneous shoot down by the US military.
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