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Interview with John Madden, Director of "Operation Mincemeat"

World's Greatest Con

CHAPTER

The Debt I Owe to Ben, the Incredibly Good Storyteller

The idea of taking a dead body is a sort of neverthee. It's the idea that actually you needed to find something that was demon able and calpable, sitting on hitler's desk. The creation of the fiction was extraordinarily meticulous. And it wasn't so much the improbability of it as the sort of nuttiness of embracing that idea in the first place as somethin that might work.

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