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    OPERATION MINCEMEAT (12A)

    Dec 15, 2021 2 minutes

    Oldie readers will know the familiar, gripping story of Operation Mincemeat – what Hugh Trevor-Roper called ‘the most spectacular single episode in the history of deception’.

    In 1943, British intelligence came up with the brilliant idea of taking the body of a poor Welsh tramp, dressing him up as a Royal Marines officer and dumping him at sea

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