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Final strategy for 1944 was agreed by the Allied leadership in
November and December 1943 (at conferences in Cairo and Tehran). Bevan was told to take the Ops. B plan and expand it into a full deception strategy. Furnished with the final details of Overlord, Bevan returned to London on 6 December to
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Following the end of the war Bevan was kept in the army, although it is not known in what role. In previous years he had been involved in some form of tactical deception (he later wrote: "I had great fun with this in the First World War"), a first taste of his career during the Second World War, and
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heroine who killed an enemy commander by deception). The Jael deception would have attempted to convince the Axis that Allied strategy for 1944 was focused on the Balkan theatre, and air bombardment of
Germany, in preparation for an invasion in 1945. The plan received a lukewarm reception from high
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plan, also known as "Torrent", written by Ops. B staff. Its early ideas of feint attacks and fake build-up of troops in southern and northern
England were the foundation of Operation Bodyguard. Ops. B recognised that the Allies would be unable to hide an invasion force indefinitely, and that any
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In 1943 Allied high command decided that the following year would see the invasion of Europe, with
Normandy chosen as the landing site. The LCS vied with Ops. B (another deception agency, set up under the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Commander Allied Forces). On 14 July Bevan published a paper
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into air battles. Bevan worked with the Ops (B) head Jervis-Read to draft three deception plans ("Starkey", "Wadham" and "Tindall") under the overall name "Cockade". Cockade's story started with a threatened invasion of Norway from
Scotland ("Tindall"), followed by a dual invasion of the Calais
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and Newton Smith, Bevan was one of the key figures in Allied deception strategy during the Second World War. In particular he pioneered the use of strategic deception on a scale never previously seen. However, because of the intense secrecy surrounding his work this contribution went largely
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Bevan was posted at the end of May 1942 to a subordinate position at the London
Controlling Section. However, Stanley, who was taking extensive sick leave to care for his terminally ill wife, had petitioned Churchill to be allowed back into politics. At the same time General
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Wheatley described Bevan as "a rather frail-looking man of medium build with sleepy pale blue eyes and thin fair hair which turned gray from the strain of the remarkable work he accomplished". Bevan was an enthusiast for the outdoors and was an active sportsman.
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Mediterranean (the invasion of France having been postponed till 1944), so Morgan, Ops (B) and the LCS were given the task of tying up German forces in the west via deception, with particular focus on drawing the
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complete a draft plan. Now codenamed "Bodyguard", it was approved on Christmas Day, 1943. The new name had been chosen following a comment by Churchill to
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and was dispatched to their Danish office; there he successfully learned to speak Danish and continued his sporting interests, winning several trophies.
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British Intelligence in the Second World War: Strategic Deception
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The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
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Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception, 1914–1945
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Deceiving Hitler: Double-Cross and Deception in World War II
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Bodyguard of Lies: The Extraordinary True Story Behind D-Day
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Howard, Michael; Hinsley, Francis Harry (26 October 1990).
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