The Texan oil billionaire Jean Paul Getty was at the heart of a conspiracy to provide support to Hitler's Germany early in the Second World War, according to newly released intelligence documents. The file links Getty to a shadowy network of financiers who supplied the Nazis with fuel in defiance of a British blockade and accuses him of gathering spies and traitors around him at his fashionable Hotel Pierre in New York. It records that he returned from Berlin in 1939 "talking breezily of his old friend Hitler" and that his business contacts included Serge Rubinstein, a notorious fraudster who...