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How To Fool Hitler - Operation Mincemeat Part I

World's Greatest Con

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The World's Greatest Gone

An officer of the Royal Marines is going to crash his plane in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Spain. In his pockets will be a heartbreaking tale of young love, evidence of a vibrant life snuffed out too soon. Those documents will be irresistible to Nazi intelligence that happens to live on that shore. He'd be greatly rewarded for finding it. The body, a corpse discarded by society. The documents, an intentional lie to devastate the German efforts. All of it to fool the ultimate mark. Someone who is most certainly not an honest John.

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