Movie / TV Operation Mincemeat.

[John A Silkstone]

The true story of the movie, ‘The Man That Never Was’

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Silky

 

[DMsquadron]

there is also a great book about this.

 

[Bombardier]

Operation Mincemeat was a successful British disinformation strategy used during the Second World War. As a deception intended to cover the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily, two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael, a tramp who died from eating rat poison, dressed him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed personal items on him identifying him as Captain (Acting Major) William Martin. Correspondence between two British generals which suggested that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia, with Sicily as merely the target of a feint, was also placed on the body.

Fake Naval identity card of Major Martin