Here's a fun telling of the story ==> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Iipsxj3hRpE
Sellam On Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 5:31 PM Wayne S via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Yes. Operation Mincemeat. Released in 2021. > Operation Mincemeat > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 10, 2024, at 17:10, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > The original movie was called 'The Man Who Never Was' > https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049471/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 > > So they made another new version? > > > On 2024-09-10 19:56, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > 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 > > -- > Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU > Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! > Skype: TILBURY2591 > >
