The Economic Times

One dead body, fake letters and Hitler got fooled: In 1943, British spies tricked Germany by using an intelligence agent that never existed in reality

A dead man washed ashore in Spain carrying secret military documents that would eventually reach Adolf Hitler. But the officer he appeared to be was entirely fictional, and the letters in his briefcase were part of a carefully planned British intelligence operation. During World War II, British agents gave a homeless Welshman a false identity and used his body to plant misleading invasion plans.