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Operation Mincemeat: WW2 espionage on film

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How Much Can We Really Know About the Real 20 Committee?

Montague and chumley are leading figures in this operation. But how much can we actually know about the real them and the real 20 committee? The wonderful thing is, as i say, from these files, you do get a sense of of their personalities. They both wrote letters. If ifyou hear the love letter that they planted, it's a wonderful piece of writing, but to an english ear, to a british ear, i would say, it does sound lik it's made up. It sounds like the kind of thing you might put in a romantic novel. When challenged with this, montague's response was, well, we're not trying to convince brit

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