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One of the most famous true UK stories of ww2 about the use of a dead body used by SOE approved by Churchill to deceive the Germans in Sicily invasion also film...
The Man Who Never Was
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
SPC Andrew Griffin you are not far off on that. It was the brainchild of one Ian Flemming, the man who created Bond, James Bond.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
SPC Andrew Griffin here is an NPR piece on operation Mincemeat.
"And if it sounds more than a little bit like something out of a spy thriller, well, that’s because it was. The idea for Operation Mincemeat came originally from Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. Before he devoted his life to Agent 007, Fleming worked as an assistant to the head of British Naval Intelligence. And Fleming admitted freely that he’d lifted the idea of a dead body carrying false papers from a detective novel he’d once read."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127742365
"And if it sounds more than a little bit like something out of a spy thriller, well, that’s because it was. The idea for Operation Mincemeat came originally from Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond. Before he devoted his life to Agent 007, Fleming worked as an assistant to the head of British Naval Intelligence. And Fleming admitted freely that he’d lifted the idea of a dead body carrying false papers from a detective novel he’d once read."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127742365
Dead Man Floating: World War II's Oddest Operation
In April of 1943, the body of a British Royal Marine washed ashore in Spain, carrying top secret letters about Allied plans to invade Greece and Sardinia. Or so it seemed. In reality, the body was that of a homeless Welsh laborer, and the letters were fakes designed to direct German attention away from the real Allied invasion target: Sicily.
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Operation Mincemeat, what a great name for an operation involving a dead man.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243379/The-dead-tramp-won-war-A-new-book-reveals-astonishing-story-Man-Who-Never-Was.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243379/The-dead-tramp-won-war-A-new-book-reveals-astonishing-story-Man-Who-Never-Was.html
The dead tramp who won World War II: A new book reveals the full astonishing story of The Man Who...
Journalist Ben Macintyre sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan dreamt up by the two officers who were responsible for running Britain's secret agents during the war.
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