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rambler_american

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3. The best example of giving misinformation to the enemy

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Fri Feb 4, 2022, 08:13 AM

Feb 2022

“The idea, very simply, was to get a dead body, equip the dead body with false papers, and then drop it somewhere the Germans would find it,” historian Ben Macintyre tells NPR’s Guy Raz. Macintyre is the author of the new book, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127742365

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The best example of giving misinformation to the enemy rambler_american Feb 2022 #3

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