| Origin of The 5th Column?
I felt sure there was a thread a long while back asking about this, but as I can't find it - this is from Beevor's Spanish Civil war book: "The 'fifth column' was a phrase attributed to General Mola, who apparently claimed to a journalist that he had four columns attacking the capital [Madrid] and a 'fifth column' of sympathisers within the city ready to revolt".
Has anybody come across a different etymology for the term?
Cheers,
Adam.
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