Operation Mincemeat: The Spy Who Was Already Dead

1943 · World War II

British intelligence dressed a dead man as a fictitious officer, equipped him with forged documents, and put his body off the Spanish coast. The deception helped misdirect German forces ahead of the Allied invasion of Sicily. His identity and life deserve recognition, too, not just the ingenuity of the operation.

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