I remember a book about this, probably 20 years ago... anyway, the title I remember turned up a 1956 movie about it. :^)
https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/operation-mincemeat-the-man-who-never-was/
https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/blog/the-man-who-never-was-the-true-story-of-operation-mincemeat/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049471/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/man_who_never_was
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Never-Was/dp/B0007ZEOQE
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Man+Who+Never+Was&i=stripbooks
A good description of the details by Time Army’s WW II YouTube channel.
The important question is, was the corpse that washed up in Spain played by a transgender black womxn, for Hollywood diversity’s sake?
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The Man Who Never Was
A great read
There is a 1950’s or 60s movie about this, specifically about the details in finding an appropriate body to use as the ruse to deliver the documents into German hands.
One of Ian Fleming’s duties as spy was to babysit Dusko Popov when he was carrying money. One day, Popov was carrying $50,000 through a casino in Lisbon, when he was distracted by a loudmouthed rich dude who kept saying he could bet against anyone for any amount. So he put his briefcase on the gambling table and said he would like to bet 50k. The loudmouth suddenly couldn’t cover the bet, and Popov said “well then I assume the house will cover my bet”. Nope. “I hope the house does something about this egregious behavior, it is a tremendous annoyance to those of us who are serious players.”
Dusko was the prototype for James Bond.
https://www.amazon.com/Codename-Tricycle-Second-extraordinary-Double/dp/0436210231
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1ko_Popov
Montage’s brother was a ping-pong official.
Watched it a few nights ago on Netflix. Well worth watching.
Has some of the best British TV series actors in it. Great acting, scenes, and atmosphere. Can’t wait to see it again.
I watched it last night. This review pretty well sums it up. I enjoyed it. Acting was good. This was better than the 1956 version.
Collin Firth gives his usual wooden performance. But he is actually better in this than the Kingsmen series where the Queen of Sweden literally says she wants to get f’ed up the ass. How classy is that? I kid you not. At the time I thought, “No wonder Netflix is picking up this show with lines like that! It’s ever progie’s wet dream.” But Netflix is now changing its tune with this “serious” “conservative” piece. Collin Firth should go back to Bridget Jones style of acting. The movie takes liberties and doesn’t answer questions like who was the guy who showed up at the end with knowledge of the picture? We never find out.
Supposedly the corpse of the fictional Major Martin was not that of Welsh tramp, but that of an unknown sailor from the
HMS ARCHER, The ARCHER was an escort which exploded and sank from an explosion in the aviation gasoline storage tank.
The story that the body came from a tramp was a cover story in that a homeless person would have been malnourished and also suffering from alcoholism which would have been detected at autopsy.
As a Boomer, I can confidently state that the movie is a remake of a 50’s film titled “The Man Who Never Was,” with actor Clifton Webb. It’s just Hollywood pretending to have original ideas again.
I have the book from years ago and always knew about Fleming (thats with 1 “M”). In fact this came from an idea from a spy mystery novel about a parachutist found on a farm. The British also pulled off a similar ruse in WWI by having a scout in the mid east drop false war plans on the battlefield.
If anyone is in the neighborhood, The Citadel in Charleston SC has the trunk of HMS Seraph on campus. (The trunk which is used to load torpedoes, and acts as an airlock, and it was thru that trunk that Miller was extracted)
The reviewer says “Hitler bought it” reminding me how he repetitively overruled his Generals and insisted on not taking their advice on strategy fancying himself a master strategist since he had served as a Corporal in WWI as a messenger.