The Big Move Covers the Small Move

Ewan Fleming was a civilian who volunteered to work with British Naval Intelligence. He knew that dropping a corpse into the sea and hoping some dry paperwork made it to Hitler's desk wasn't going to happen. Chumley and Montague spent three months building not just a person, but a fascinating person with a rich backstory. The top brass reviewed Mincemeat on April 14, 1943,. Unlike all the previous incarnations, they didn't see a bunch of loose ideas... They saw the actual machinery. And most importantly, they reviewed those documents.