Yeah, OK. The USA does like to take credit for something other nations have done. This was under the command of Gen Montgomery and used the name of Gen Patton to add realism to the German forces.
Operation Fortitude was a sub division of the main psyops Operation Bodyguard and was planned by Noel Wild, an MI5 officer following the plans of another disinfo op in Egypt earlier on the war.
The film "Eye of the Needle" is based on this operation.
Yeah, OK. The USA does like to take credit for something other nations have done. This was under the command of Gen Montgomery and used the name of Gen Patton to add realism to the German forces.
Operation Fortitude was a sub division of the main psyops Operation Bodyguard and was planned by Noel Wild, an MI5 officer following the plans of another disinfo op in Egypt earlier on the war.
The film "Eye of the Needle" is based on this operation.