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Operation Mincemeat

The British disguised a homeless man's corpse as a fake officer to fool the Nazis about D-Day's Mediterranean cousin — and it worked.

Operation Mincemeat was a 1943 British intelligence deception that used a corpse, given a fabricated identity and fake secret documents, to convince German intelligence the Allies would invade Greece and Sardinia rather than their actual target, Sicily.

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Quick facts

→The body used was Glyndwr Michael, a homeless Welsh laborer who died after ingesting rat poison, likely by suicide.
→He was given a full fabricated identity — Major William Martin — complete with forged letters and a fake fiancée's photo.
→Ultra codebreaking intercepts later confirmed German commanders genuinely fell for the deception.
→Glyndwr Michael's real identity wasn't publicly added to his gravestone until 1997.

Entities on file

Glyndwr Michael (person)

Homeless Welsh laborer whose body was used, without his consent, as the deception's fabricated "Major William Martin."

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Ewen Montagu (person)

Royal Navy intelligence officer who co-devised and led Operation Mincemeat.

→ orchestrated the use of the body of → Glyndwr Michael✓documented

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