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...Never Was, by Ewen Montagu. How British intelligence deceived the Germans about the invasion of Sicily by furnishing them a corpse whose pockets were stuffed with false war plans (TIME...
...Never Was, by Ewen Montagu. How British intelligence deceived the Germans about the invasion of Sicily by furnishing them a corpse whose pockets were stuffed with false war plans (TIME...
...Never Was, by Ewen Montagu. How British intelligence deceived the Germans about the invasion of Sicily by furnishing them a corpse whose pockets were stuffed with false war plans (TIME...
...Never Was, by Ewen Montagu. A truthful shocker telling how British intelligence deceived the Germans about the invasion of Sicily by floating to them a corpse with pockets stuffed with false war plans (TIME, Feb.1...
...Grave in Huelva. Montagu had given his scheme the gruesome code name of Mincemeat. One day, not long after Martin's body had floated ashore at Huelva, Prime Minister Churchill, then in Washington, got a message from his chiefs of staff: "Mincemeat swallowed whole." But how gullible the Germans were was learned only after the war from captured documents. The Spaniards, behaving just as Montagu had expected, turned the papers over to a German, agent. Then, from echelon to echelon of command, went the German intelligence report: "The genuineness of the captured documents is above suspicion." Hitler himself believed...