11 Sep
2024
11 Sep
'24
12:10 a.m.
The original movie was called 'The Man Who Never Was'
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049471/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
So they made another new version?
On 2024-09-10 19:56, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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On Sep 10,
2024, at 7:41 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
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Another big crack was an Irish navy officer had been killed, and with his family's
permission, papers with disinformation on the D-day attack were put in his pockets. Tunny
intercepts later showed the Germans were moving positions based on this disinformation,
and it helped the invasion go better for the allies.
I think you're talking about "Operation Mincemeat", the subject of a
quite good recent movie. The body in question was Welsh, not an actual officer but a
"legend" was created out of whole cloth for an imaginary officer. See Wikipedia
for the whole story, which includes a picture of his grave marker that shows both
names.
paul