The Secrets of the Mincemeat Files

The book would not have been possible to write without the de classification of the mincemeat files in 19 96. Long time ago now, but a huge sea change in british attitudes towards official secrecy. The mi five files are completely different from any kind of government file because they're written by and for people who never expected them to be made public. And so they have a sort of patina of truth that is unlike normal government files. Still to come on the history extra pudcast o.