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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 In 1943, José Antonio Rey María was a fish spotter for the fishermen of Punta Umbria, Spain. He saw a body floating in the water, and when he rowed closer, he realized it was a man. He brought the body ashore and none of the other fishermen wanted to touch it.
#2 The British Secret Service had created a man from nothing in a basement room beneath the Admiralty building in Whitehall. The man was tall and thin, with thick spectacles and an elaborate air-force mustache.
#3 The defining feature of this spy was his falsity. He was a pure figment of imagination, a weapon in a war far removed from the traditional battle of bombs and bullets.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	23 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669358176
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

In 1943, José Antonio Rey María was a fish spotter for the fishermen of Punta Umbria, Spain. He saw a body floating in the water, and when he rowed closer, he realized it was a man. He brought the body ashore and none of the other fishermen wanted to touch it.

#2

The British Secret Service had created a man from nothing in a basement room beneath the Admiralty building in Whitehall. The man was tall and thin, with thick spectacles and an elaborate air-force mustache.

#3

The defining feature of this spy was his falsity. He was a pure figment of imagination, a weapon in a war far removed from the traditional battle of bombs and bullets.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The British government thought of many ways to deceive the Germans, from dropping footballs painted with luminous paint to attracting submarines, to distributing messages in bottles from a fictitious U-boat captain cursing Hitler’s Reich.

#2

The idea of dropping a corpse dressed as an airman on the coast was suggested in a memo by Basil Thomson, former assistant premier of Tonga, tutor to the King of Siam, ex-governor of Dartmoor prison, and policeman.

#3

In late September 1942, a British Catalina seaplane flying from Plymouth to Gibraltar crashed in a violent electrical storm off Cádiz, Spain. Among the passengers was Paymaster-Lieutenant James Hadden Turner, a Royal Navy courier, who was carrying a letter to the governor of Gibraltar informing him that General Dwight Eisenhower would be arriving on the rock immediately before the offensive.

#4

The British authorities were sure that the secret was safe, but they were wrong. Another victim of the Catalina air crash was Louis Daniélou, an intelligence officer with the Free French Forces, who was on a mission for the Special Operations Executive. His notebook and a document that referred to British attacks on targets in North Africa were passed on to the Germans.

#5

Cholmondeley longed for adventure. He was commissioned a pilot officer in November 1939, but his poor eyesight meant he would never fly a plane. Instead, he spent the war working for British intelligence, rising to the rank of flight lieutenant.

#6

Cholmondeley, the secretary of the top secret XX Committee, had a subtle and ingenious mind that was forever throwing up bizarre ideas. He presented the committee with his own idea, under the code name Trojan Horse, on October 31, 1942.

#7

The haversack ruse is a technique used by spies to plant misleading information by means of a fake accident. It was the brainchild of Richard Meinertzhagen, who was a British anti-Semitic Zionist, big-game hunter, fraud, and spy.

#8

The key to an effective deceit is not just to conceal what you are doing, but to persuade the other side that what you are doing is the opposite of what you are actually doing. In World War II, this was accomplished by dropping cigarettes laced with opium behind enemy lines.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The choice of Ewen Montagu as the planner of the Trojan Horse plan was mostly accidental, but he was perfect for the role. He had organizational skills and a mastery of detail that complemented Cholmondeley’s fertile brain.

#2

Ewen Montagu, the second son of the family, was extremely different from his brother Stuart, who was pompous and unimaginative. Ewen went on to become a committed communist and a collector of rare mice.

#3

Ewen was extremely popular at Cambridge, and he enjoyed every bit of it. He was engaged to Iris Solomon, the daughter of Solomon J. Solomon, the portrait painter, in 1923. They married in 1923.

#4

The brothers were very different, and their lives took different paths. Ewen was a socialite who loved to fish, while Ivor was a communist who loved to fish as well. They remained close and saw each other often.

#5

Ewen Montagu was a lawyer who became a barrister in 1924. He was extremely good at absorbing detail, improvising, and molding the collective mind of a jury. He was also extremely rude, and enjoyed defacing those who were below him in social status.

#6

Godfrey’s Naval Intelligence Department was an eclectic and unconventional body. It was responsible not only for gathering and disseminating secret intelligence, but also for running agents and double agents.

#7

Section 17M expanded as the war went on. By 1943, the unit had fourteen people, including an artist, a yachting magazine journalist, three secretaries, two shorthand typists, and two watchkeepers to monitor any night traffic.

#8

Montagu was a brave man, but he was also a bit of a trickster. In 1940, he thought of leading the German invasion force into a minefield using himself as bait. The Germans knew the approximate location of the channels, but not the precise ones.

#9

The team that was created to plan and execute the deception of the dead airman was made up of Montagu, the whip-smart lawyer, and Cholmondeley, the gentle, lanky, and unpredictable ideas man. They had the backing of the Twenty Committee, but they did not yet have a clear idea of what to do with their plan.

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