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Glyndwr Michael — The corpse
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Operation Mincemeat was a 1943 British military deception that planted false invasion documents on a corpse — Glyndwr Michael, a Welsh homeless man — released off the coast of Huelva, Spain.
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Operation Mincemeat
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Adolf Hitler — Personally re-ordered defences after the planted documents
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Charles Cholmondeley — RAF / MI5 officer
Co-documented with Glyndwr Michael — The corpse in 1 published dossier, including “Operation Mincemeat”.
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