
Operation Mincemeat: WW2 espionage on film
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Mistakes in Operation Mincemeat
There were mistakes made in operation mincemeat that made it a real hostage to fortune. You have to be utterly brilliant at lying in order to remember all your earlier lies, imean and very few people can do it. They took advice from a senior forensic pathologist called sir bernard spil sbury. Everybody in this story has names like spillsbury and montague and chumley. I know where all these people went. Perhaps they didn't breed after the war ut, but really, where did wheredid they go? A so spillsbury said to them, when they asked him, they said, you know, we've got this, this, this dead person
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