253 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The World's Greatest Con
Operation Mincemeat was an Allied initiative to trick Hitler into believing the allies were going to invade the Balkans and not Sicily. Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, wrote down an idea that sat locked away in a storage box for years until two guys, Montague and Chumley, discovered it. They planted all of this pocket litter, an entire story on a dead body that they have to build from scratch over months and months and months beforehand. It's one of those kind of stories like, hey, do you ever hear about this thing they did in World War II?"
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