The Pervasion of Ruse -- Wall Street JournalWaging war by misleading the enemy, with bogus documents, decoy ships, fake buildings and 'dazzle painting.'
Among the graves in a cemetery in Huelva, in southern Spain, is one for a Glyndwr Michael, a vagrant who died in 1943 at age 34—in London. Long after his death, his grave marker was amended to commemorate his inadvertent service during World War II. For it was the corpse of this young man that was used by the British in one of the greatest of wartime ruses: Operation Mincemeat. The cadaver was dressed in the uniform of a Royal Marines officer and given the name William Martin, taken to Spain in a submarine and left to drift ashore. A briefcase stuffed with "secret" documents was attached to a belt worn by "Major Martin."
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