{"id":1378,"date":"2023-11-09T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-nuclear-war-hideout-built-by-a-swiss-spy-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T09:07:07","slug":"the-nuclear-war-hideout-built-by-a-swiss-spy-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-nuclear-war-hideout-built-by-a-swiss-spy-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The nuclear war hideout built by a Swiss spy &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OJQtw4N-xow?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In the 1960s, Swiss spymaster Colonel Albert Bachmann was certain of a coming nuclear war \u2013 with Switzerland situated right in the firing line of nuclear fallout.<\/p>\n<p>He took it upon himself to find a safe haven for the Swiss government, a bolt hole in the safest part of Europe \u2013 West Cork in Ireland. Here, using government funds, he secretly bought and converted an old hotel in 1976, turning it into a refuge for the Swiss government in exile and its stockpile of gold.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Daire Collins<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OJQtw4N-xow\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1960s, Swiss spymaster Colonel Albert Bachmann was certain of a coming nuclear war \u2013 with Switzerland situated right in the firing line of nuclear fallout. He took it upon himself to find a safe haven for the Swiss government, a bolt hole in the safest part of Europe \u2013 West Cork in Ireland. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}