Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu knew dishonesty would save lives when he was organizing Operation Mincemeat in 1943
–The British needed the Germans looking at Greece, not Sicily–Montagu obtained a corpse of homeless man who died of rat poison–The intelligence team preserved it with dry ice–They created Royal Marines officer William Martin–gave him personal letters and identity cards, created a fiancée who never existed–Drafted fake invasion plans for Greece, and mentioned specific beaches near Kalamata–They put papers in a briefcase fastened to his wrist–
–The submarine HMS Seraph surfaced off Huelva, Spain, the crew slid the body into the cold Atlantic–Spanish authorities found it–German intelligence agents photographed all documents, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris thought the lie was real–Hitler ordered Panzer divisions to Greece–
–The true invasion force landed at Sicily–July 10, 1943–they faced minimal resistance–one dead man with false paperwork diverted fifteen German divisions–Thus, Operation Mincemeat helped thousands of Allied lives to be spared–
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