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Bodyguard of Lies
The Deceptions that Saved D-Day:
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies," said British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. A forest of falsehoods can conceal precious information, and thereby save precious lives.
Operation Bodyguard, named for Churchill's "bodyguard of lies," proved critical to the Allies' D-Day invasion in 1944. An array of fabulous fakes -- form dummy parachutists to rubber tanks and bogus broadcasts -- misled German intelligence into preparing for an attack in the wrong place, at the wrong time. |