‘silly little blabbing phrases, repeated over and over again…’ Alexander Clifford, Three Against Rommel (London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1943).

  ‘Under Monty’s teaching the whole thing suddenly became plain and simple…’ Clarke, ‘A Quarter of My Century’.

  ‘It will be a killing match…’ WO 201/444. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘horribly obvious…’ Richardson, Flashback.

  ‘Believe English are worried about Caucasus…’ WO 169/24894. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘You must conceal 150,000 men…’ Anthony Cave Brown, Bodyguard of Lies 4th edn (London: Comet, 1986).

  ‘There is no better test of a conjurer’s skill…’ Sidney W. Clarke and Todd Karr, The Annals of Conjuring, ed. Edwin A. Dawes (Los Angeles: Miracle Factory, 2001).

  ‘I thought it best to stress only the “defensive positions” part of your telegram…’ WO 169/24906. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘When, how and where?’ WO 169/24894. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘WAIT FIVE MINUTES. WAIT FIVE MINUTES…’ ibid.

  ‘he is very angry, discouraged and a trifle windy…’ ibid.

  ‘now the finished product…’ WO 169/24848. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘His work has created the nervousness you speak of…’ CHAR 20/80. Churchill Archive.

  ‘I have always had considerable belief in deceiving…’ CAB 120/769. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘rather frail-looking man of medium build…’ Dennis Wheatley, The Deception Planners: My secret war (London: Hutchinson, 1980).

  ‘When things were looking pretty bad for his side at cricket…’ ibid.

  ‘any matter calculated to mystify or mislead the enemy…’ CAB 154/100. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘greatest amphibious operation since the Spanish Armada…’ Wheatley, The Deception Planners.

  ‘Deception is merely a side-line…’ KV 4/190. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘ambiguity-decreasing deception…’ Mike Martin, How to Fight a War (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2023).

  ‘a complete surprise…’ WO 169/24848. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘it would be invaluable’, WO 169/24872. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘Too far-fetched even for Hitler…’ CAB 120/468. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘we were most intrigued to see the “great deceiver” in the flesh…’ Wheatley, The Deception Planners.

  ‘To God and history…’ Holt, The Deceivers.

  ‘a great song and dance over the whole thing with masses of orders…’ Young and Stamp, Trojan Horses.

  ‘eggs and bacon with marmalade…’ Mure, Masters of Deception.

  ‘You always had this strange contradiction within you…’ Young and Stamp, Trojan Horses.

  ‘claimed he shot his way in – and blowing open the safe…’ Obituary: Canon David Strangeways, The Independent, 23 October 2011.

  ‘He said I was very naughty…’ Young and Stamp, Trojan Horses.

  ‘resourcefulness, determination and coolness in difficult situations…’ WO 373/2/50. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘the rather vague hope that someone on the operations…’ HW 3/125. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘received a flood of reports from their agents…’ CAB 154/96. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘All cover plans should be based on what the enemy…’ David Mure, Practise to Deceive (London: Kimber, 1977).

  ‘a 45 per cent inflation…’ WO 169/24926. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘I know my correspondents here well…’ WO 169/24912. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘our repeated cry of “wolf”…’ WO 169/24849. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘propaganda broadcasts warning against “premature action”…’ WO 169/24849. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘It seemed that the enemy could scarcely avoid the one conclusion…’ ibid.

  ‘everyone but a bloody fool would know it…’ Ewen Montagu, Beyond Top Secret Ultra (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1978).

  ‘considered this wrong in principle…’ WO 169/24872. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘the order of probability being Sicily first…’ ADM 223/794. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘almost completely ignorant of the German Intelligence Service…’ ibid.

  ‘a document could be planted through more than one channel…’ KV 4/64. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘It would be a mistake to play for high deception stakes…’ CAB 154/67. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘We feel Mincemeat gives an unrivalled opportunity…’ ibid.

  ‘the major part of the Barclay story…’ WO 169/24849. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘there wasn’t much hope of persuading the Boche…’ CAB 154/67. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘noticed some oddities about this corpse…’ Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat: the true spy story that changed the course of World War II (London: Bloomsbury, 2010).

  ‘an atmosphere of “constant suspicion”…’ WO 169/24849. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘one of the great successes of the war…’ HW 3/125. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘It is after all little more than a drama…’ WO 169/24874. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘truth deserved a bodyguard of lies…’ WO 169/24876. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘Our first survey of the position…’ CAB 154/101. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘beaten before they had begun…’ CAB 154/101. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘They did during the North African invasion…’ Harry C. Butcher, My Three Years With Eisenhower: The Personal Diary of Captain Harry C. Butcher 1942–1945 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946).

  ‘it was not what the neutral countries intended to do…’ CAB 154/101. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘I rewrote it. Entirely…’ David Inderwick Strangeways (Oral history). Imperial War Museums.

  ‘Could we possibly get away with simulating an entirely fictitious army group…’ Joshua Levine, Operation Fortitude: The story of the spies and the spy operation that saved D-Day (London: Collins, 2011).

  ‘But we’re not going to land in the Pas-de-Calais…’ Holt, The Deceivers.

  ‘longest and most elaborate operation it had yet undertaken…’ WO 169/24850. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘every risk accepted which can further the success of these plans…’ WO 169/24850. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘a week or more to wait before the landings came in North West Europe…’ WO 169/24850. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘Gummer suggested a visit to the governor…’ WO 169/24923. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘a second-rate actor…’ WO 169/24923. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘Monty is rather flattered by the whole plan…’ KV 4/194. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘tremendous air of assurance…’ M. E. Clifton James, I Was Monty’s Double (London: Rider, 1954).

  ‘Hello, Monty, glad to see you…’ WO 169/24850. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘You are Monty. I’ve known him for years…’ James, I Was Monty’s Double.

  ‘with well-feigned embarrassment…’ WO 169/24850. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘good tidings are on their way to Berlin…’ WO 169/24923. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘James snoring and the bottle empty…’ Mure, Master of Deception.

  ‘It was some stuff dropped in Spain…’ Strangeways (Oral history). Imperial War Museums.

  ‘inextricably interwoven into almost every strategic and major tactical plan…’ WO 169/24875. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘bafflement that the Allies had never deployed the 5th Airborne Division…’ Holt, The Deceivers.

  ‘designed to save lives rather than destroy…’ WO 169/24875. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘their forces were unprepared to carry out the real plan…’ Mykhaylo Zabrodskyi, ‘Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February–July 2022’ (London: Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 2022).

  ‘Deception can never be effective either in love or in war…’ Michael Howard, British Intelligence in the Second World War: Volume 5, Strategic Deception (London: HMSO, 1990).

  ‘Results of the plan as shown by captured documents…’ WO 169/24925. The National Archives, Kew.

  ‘Made for the job…’ Robert Harling, Ian Fleming: A Personal Memoir.

  ‘Where had this exuberant shrewd pirate come from?…’ Ian Fleming, From Russia, with Love (London: Random House, 2012).

  ‘He is believed to have died in 1954…’ Nigel West, Double Cross in Cairo: The true story of the spy who turned the tide of war in the Middle East (London: Biteback, 2015).

  ‘a second – and secret – object…’ CCO 180/1/1, Conservative Party Archive, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford.

  ‘as in other battles…’ CCO 180/1/2, Conservative Party Archive, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford.

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