[cctalk] Re: auction starting in 50 minutes

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Sep 10, 2024, at 7:41 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> ...
> Another big crack was an Irish navy officer had been killed, and with his 
> family's permission, papers with disinformation on the D-day attack were put 
> in his pockets.  Tunny intercepts later showed the Germans were moving 
> positions based on this disinformation, and it helped the invasion go better 
> for the allies.

I think you're talking about "Operation Mincemeat", the subject of a quite good 
recent movie.  The body in question was Welsh, not an actual officer but a 
"legend" was created out of whole cloth for an imaginary officer.  See 
Wikipedia for the whole story,  which includes a picture of his grave marker 
that shows both names.

        paul