[cctalk] Re: auction starting in 50 minutes

Yes. Operation Mincemeat. Released in 2021. Operation Mincemeat Sent from my iPhone On Sep 10, 2024, at 17:10, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: 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: On Sep 10, 2024, at 7:41 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: ... 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 -- Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! Skype: TILBURY2591