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Major Martin
A deception planned to the finest details, British intelligence outfitted the corpse of Major Martin with ID papers, service ribbons, theater ticket stubs, a love letter, loose change and lodging receipts.
The Man Who Never Was:
Major William Martin never existed. He was created as part of Operation Mincemeat, a scheme to mislead Germany about Allied war plans.
British intelligence dressed a corpse in a Marine uniform, and arranged for it to wash up on the coast of Spain with a briefcase filled with phony documents. Germans found the documents, which told of false plans for an invasion in the Balkans. Fooled by the deception, they moved troops away from Sicily -- paving the way for an Allied attack there. |