Wearing a patterned swimsuit as she posed for a happy photo at the riverside, Jean Leigh never dreamed that she would become a central pillar in the plot that helped to fool Adolf Hitler and ultimately defeat Nazi [Germany](/news/germany/index.html) . The young woman's image, which was taken next to the Thames in Oxfordshire, went on to be used in one of the greatest feats of deception in history. The codenamed Operation Mincemeat, which was devised by intelligence officers Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu, used the corpse of an unknown man who was given the identity of a British Army major...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
