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Summary of the third regular session of the Teheran Meeting, November 30, 1943
As this summary of a Teheran Conference meeting indicates, Churchill realized that the scale of the proposed cross-Channel attack into Normandy meant that the enemy would know that an invasion was coming. He therefore called for "some form of cover plan" in order to trick the German defenders into thinking the blow would fall elsewhere, causing them to disperse their defenses. "Truth," he said, "deserves a bodyguard of lies." The code name BODYGUARD was later given to the Allies' massive deception effort.
Object Details:
Typed memorandum. Facsimile. W. Averell Harriman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (208)
Related Theme:
World War II
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