The film Operation Mincemeat – which relates the true story of a Second World War event – has been widely acclaimed.
It tells the story of one of the most daring intelligence plots of all time: a plan to convince the Nazis that far from intending to invade Sicily in 1943, as would have been the militarily obvious move, the Allies were in fact getting ready to invade Greece.
To do this, a corpse was obtained from a morgue and given a completely false identity. The body, carrying false documentation including fake military information, was then floated off near the coast of Spain in the hope that it – and the papers it was carrying – would find their way to German high command, which, eventually, they did.
