Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

During WWII, during Operation Mincemeat, British intelligence successfully deceived Hitler into thinking the Allies were landing in Greece rather than Sicily by dressing up a dead homeless man in a captain's uniform, fitting him with fake documents, and dropping him off the coast of Spain

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