The original movie was called 'The Man Who Never Was'
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049471/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
So they made another new version?
On 2024-09-10 19:56, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Sep 10, 2024, at 7:41 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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Another big crack was an Irish navy officer had been killed, and with his
family's permission, papers with disinformation on the D-day attack were put in
his pockets. Tunny intercepts later showed the Germans were moving positions
based on this disinformation, and it helped the invasion go better for the
allies.
I think you're talking about "Operation Mincemeat", the subject of a quite good recent
movie. The body in question was Welsh, not an actual officer but a "legend" was created
out of whole cloth for an imaginary officer. See Wikipedia for the whole story, which includes a
picture of his grave marker that shows both names.
paul
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