Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat was a British deception operation of 1943 in which intelligence officers Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley dressed the corpse of Glyndwr Michael as a fictitious Royal Marines officer, William Martin, and equipped it with forged documents suggesting an Allied invasion of Greece and Sardinia. The body was released from the submarine HMS Seraph near Huelva, Spain, on 30 April 1943, where Spanish authorities recovered it and shared the documents with German intelligence. The deception helped divert German attention and reinforcements away from the actual invasion target, Sicily. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/