Trout memo
The Trout memo, written in 1939, is a document comparing the deception of an enemy in wartime with
The memo reads, in part: "The Trout Fisher casts patiently all day. He frequently changes his venue and his lures. If he has frightened a fish he may 'give the water a rest for half-an-hour,' but his main endeavour, viz. to attract fish by something he sends out from his boat, is incessant." The memo lists 54 ways that the enemy, like trout, may be fooled or lured.
The 28th suggestion, inspired by a novel written by Basil Thomson, was titled "A Suggestion (not a very nice one)."[3] This idea was the inspiration for Operation Mincemeat, a World War II plan developed by British military officers Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu, to plant misleading documents on a dead body to convince the Germans that the Allies would attack Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily in 1943. When the operation succeeded, confirmation was sent to Churchill: "Mincemeat swallowed rod, line and sinker."[2][3]
References
- ^ "Meet The True Inspiration For James Bond: Triple Agent Dusan Popov". www.Yahoo.com. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ a b Ben MacIntyre, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory, Chapter 2.
- ^ a b "Dead Man Floating: World War II's Oddest Operation". NPR.org.
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