The deception was far more elaborate that this brief decription . It also included a body loaded with secret documents winding up on a seacoast controlled by the Nazis.Phoney radio transmissions between units etc as the Germans bought into but never questioned returing recon aircrraft loaded with pics.Which could have been easily shot down.
I remember in “Eye of the Needle”, I think that was the title, the German spy discovers the ruse and even photographs some of the fake tanks etc.
Not sure if there was any truth in the story. Probably totally made up. It was cool when Kate Nelligan put her country first and shot him.
I remember about this happening - from earlier reporting.
“The Man Who Never Was” was a British operation, and not the same as this.
The British also had Ultra (cracking the Enigma code; there was a period of some months when the Germans had added a wheel to the Enigma machines, and the British were unable to crack the messages), and Double Cross (all the German agents in the UK — except for one — were captives and feeding phony info back to Berlin.
There was a US operation in Scotland that was purported to be an entire army (I think purportedly assigned to Patton) that used fake tanks and simulated radio traffic to fool with the Abhwer.
Ah, here it is:
Corpse who went to war - & saved the Allies!
NY Post | May 2, 2010 | By BEN MACINTYRE
Posted on 05/04/2010 4:45:47 AM PDT by iowamark
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