{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/e8135644-f1f3-4965-80cb-247bc7786eaa/622721305da85c0013a73197?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 127: Operation Mincemeat - The Man who Never Was | Geopolitics, War & Espionage #20","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9f8171a8cbe69503cefe9/show-cover.png?height=200","description":"<p>In early 1943, the Allies are planning to invade Sicily - although with each side of the war closely scrutinising the other with a ramped up focus on espionage and stealing secrets the question arises as to how to do so without the enemy knowing.</p><p><br></p><p>A supremely audacious plan is concocted to throw Axis powers of the scent, a plan which has to be perfectly calibrated in order for the enemy to fall for it. And so, in nominally netural territory, Operation Mincemeat is put into action thanks to a future spy novelist, a couple of meticulous intelligence men, a submarine and a homeless man.</p><p><br></p><p>This is the story of the man who never was...</p>","author_name":"Chris Stokes, Masud Milas & Sooz Kempner"}