Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler

BBC ^ | December 3, 2010 | Megan Lane

[decimon]

The Wikipedia articles says three panzer divisions.

Operation Mincemeat

An NYT book review has Ewen Montagu's brother a Soviet spy. It says that Ewen didn't know about his brother but that MI5 did.

OPERATION MINCEMEAT

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Recently there were a bunch of Russians running around America for a decade or so.

We caught them, but they weren't doing much.

What else was going on under our noses that we didn't see?

[patton]

3 Pzr divisions, an army ... eh, who counts.

(Given my screen name, that is pretty dang funny).

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The article said “a panzer division, almost 90,000 men.”

[decimon]

The article said “a panzer division, almost 90,000 men.”

That is true. They probably erred.

[TalBlack]

Hitler went right for it. I wonder if Stalin would have?

[decimon]

Hitler went right for it. I wonder if Stalin would have?

Dunno. Stalin had spies planted everywhere and the Germans still caught him flatfooted.

[libertylover]

The genius of this operation was in the subtlety of the clues.

[mikrofon]

I can’t wait for the YouTube video after the Fuehrer finds out....

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Stalin did not believe it, even after the Germans invaded. (He also ordered Russians armies stationed too far west, where they were quickly overrun. Had they allowed themselves some space east of the Germans, the Germans initial successes would not have been quite so great.)

[calex59]

They made a movie of it, called “The Man Who Never Was”. It was well done.

[calex59]

Stalin, entirely out of character for him, refused to believe Hitler would attack Russia and bought the story that the buildup on the Russian border was being done to fool the Allies and that Hitler was going to use those troops to repel any invasion. Hitler would have been much better off if he had used those troops in the West and left Russia alone.

[allmendream]

James Bond 007, Ian Flemming.