Did you ever see “The Man Who Never Was”. It’s a British film about a dead person the Brits stuck fake D-Day plans in his pocket to make the Nazis think the Allied landing would be on a different location than it actually was. They waited for tide to go in and dumped his body in the ocean so he would wash up on the beach.
The Nazis thought they had it all figured out and placed the bulk of their troops at beaches far away from the actual landing site. It was all a bunch of lies the British put out to protect Allied troops:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Never_Was
Yeah that was part of Operation Quicksilver. (Patton's Ghost Army was the biggest part of it)
Military Deception has always been part of war. But what I've seen in this war had taken it to a new level.
That is warfare deception and has nothing to do with propaganda reporting, occurring on both sides I might add.
Just watched Operation Mincemeat. British dumped a body with secret war plans off ghe coastvof Spain, to convince the Germans they would land in Greece instead of Sicily.