Churchill's London bunker welcomes wannabe WWII spies During the Second World War, under the bulldog determination of former British prime minister Winston Churchill, over 13,000 people were selected to work as Special Operations Executives -- or spies --in particular in occupied France . Half a decade later and hundreds of people attended a one off event at The Churchill War Rooms in London, to see if they also could have made the cut. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report. hand