
London, 1943. Officers Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, members of MI5 who are developing an effective counter-espionage system (Double Cross) during the war, devise an improbable and ingenious plan to deceive the Nazis and make them believe that the allies will land in Greece instead of in Sicily. The ploy consists in letting the corpse of Major William Martin drift adrift near the Spanish coast, provided with a file of information proving his existence and the false invasion plan. The major in question is actually a poor devil who died poisoned and ‘lent’ to his homeland who invents a new identity for him. Leading the Mincemeat operation, with Montagu and Cholmondeley, are also Ian Fleming, James Bond’s father, and Jean Leslie, secret service secretary who inspires the romance of William Martin and falls madly in love with the two officers...
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