Operation Mincemeat
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Operation Mincemeat
BBC2's evening scheduling inserted a programme about Operation Mincemeat tonight instead of the advertised event. Did anyone see it?
Great stuff!
Great stuff!
Yes, I did. 
It is also the subject of a cracking 1956 movie The Man Who Never Was (1956) - IMDb
LJ
PS. It's Operation MINCEMEAT - the codeword is in capitals
It is also the subject of a cracking 1956 movie The Man Who Never Was (1956) - IMDb
LJ
PS. It's Operation MINCEMEAT - the codeword is in capitals
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I enjoyed the film, wish we had the other programs out here.
Will have to find them on line somewhere and watch them.
Re Operation MINCEMEAT in Wiki (Yes, I know), interesting to see that the
security services had to release the whole story in the 1950's because
of an amateur who wrote a fictional book so close to the truth.
("At this point the British security services decided that the best response was to publish the story.)
Not often you see that but you have to wonder if the author with the posts he held during the war didn't have inside knowledge.
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Will have to find them on line somewhere and watch them.
Re Operation MINCEMEAT in Wiki (Yes, I know), interesting to see that the
security services had to release the whole story in the 1950's because
of an amateur who wrote a fictional book so close to the truth.
("At this point the British security services decided that the best response was to publish the story.)
Not often you see that but you have to wonder if the author with the posts he held during the war didn't have inside knowledge.
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I bought Ben Macintyre's book 'Operation Mincemeat' to read on a flight a couple of years ago and it was unputdownable!
ISBN 978 1 4088 0600 5 - available from all the usual retailers.
I recall my father saying how good the film was when he went to see it with some friends at the local fleapit - and that it was very close to the true story!
ISBN 978 1 4088 0600 5 - available from all the usual retailers.
I recall my father saying how good the film was when he went to see it with some friends at the local fleapit - and that it was very close to the true story!
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Leon Jabachjabicz. I know what you mean but remember that JSP101 has now been reduced to the status of "guide". Comms anarchy isn't, apparently, considerd undesirable. 
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The Operation Crossbow programme was a rewrite of history, It for example mentioned Cherwell who totally opposed the idea that Germany had rockets yet makes no mention of professor RV Jones who proved their existence or Constance Babbington-Smith the lead Photo Interpreter. It also said that Medmedham instigated the raids on Peenemünde and the Ski sites, which is rather beyond their authority, and why was the programme full of Yanks who played no part in Peenemünde?
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Come on mate chill.....
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The TV prog referred to a picture of Cholmondeley and Montagu posing with the van shortly after crossing the Scottish border. In the book the same (I think) pic is annotated "at Langbank on the River Clyde". Langbank ain't close to the border.
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'Just pretend to be lovers to give a ring of truth to our letters.' Yeah, right, Monty!
The TV prog referred to a picture of Cholmondeley and Montagu posing with the van shortly after crossing the Scottish border. In the book the same (I think) pic is annotated "at Langbank on the River Clyde". Langbank ain't close to the border.
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'Just pretend to be lovers to give a ring of truth to our letters.' Yeah, right, Monty!
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One thing that always amuses me about this site is how quickly the pedantic tribe swing into action. It must be hell, hovering, waiting for a typo. (Sorry, I meant typographical error)
And I haven't had too many posts either. So I suppose that means I should also keep my thoughts to myself.
And I haven't had too many posts either. So I suppose that means I should also keep my thoughts to myself.
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BBC 4 operation mincemeat is on now
Documentary about the operation interviewing those involved, if you do not remember it's the dropping off of a corpse off Spain to fool the Germans
'The Man Who Never Was' is a pretty accurate 1956 movie about Op. MINCEMEAT.
Available on DVD from the usual places.
Available on DVD from the usual places.
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One thing it didn't cover was whether the briefcase was returned (or did I miss that with MiL shouting through it). It was 'essential' that it was returned so that we would not know that the Germans knew our plans.
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One thing it didn't cover was whether the briefcase was returned
HTH
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Copies of the letters were found in Abwehr records in Berlin after the end of the war .The major’s identity has never been proved with a recent thought being that he was one of the dead from the loss of the converted carrier HMS Dasher.