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Original Title: TIL the Trout memo (1939) compared wartime deception to fly fishing. Issued by Admiral Godfrey, whose assistant was Ian Fleming (James Bond creator), it inspired Operation Mincemeat. This plan put fake documents on a corpse, fooling the Germans into expecting an attack on Greece instead of Sicily