From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 03:40:23 +0800
To: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Subject: Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
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At 01:40 PM 1/26/96 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>At 20:18 1/25/96, jim bell wrote:
>
>>Now, I was born in 1958 and thus can't claim personal knowledge of the time,
>>but it's truly amazing how UNPERCEPTIVE the public must have been in the
>>late 40's and early '50s about "intelligence" realities.  Let me give you a
>>specific example:  The classic movie, "The Man who Never Was," relates the
>>(true) story of a counter-intelligence mission done by the British to (I
>>think) mislead the Germans into believing that the attack on Sicily would be
>>substantially LATER than it actually was.
>
>The code name for the project was "Operation Mincemeat" and the intent was
>to get the defences at Normandy ("Operation Torch" - ie: D-Day) away from
>there and transferred to Sicily (which was NOT a D-Day objective) not as
>you say to fool them on when the attack was coming. It did its job and much
>of the mobile coastal defences were moved out of the area.

I apologize for the error (presuming it's an error).  I was working from an 
old memory there, from reading a book called "A Bodyguard of Lies"  (William 
Cave Brown?) which addresses the misinformation/disinformation campaigns 
that went on during WWII.  And, of course, seeing the movie "The Man who Never
 Was."
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