Operation Mincemeat was a highly successful British deception plan during World War II which convinced the German High Command (OKW) that the Allies would invade the Balkans and Sardinia instead of the island of Sicily, the actual objective.
The operation called for making the Germans believe that they had, by accident, intercepted highly classified documents detailing future Allied war plans, and part of Mincemeat’s success lay in the unusual nature of the operation: In the early morning of April 30, 1943 The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaced in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man dressed as a British military intelligence officer planted with false invasion plans.
Later that morning the body was washed ashore and found by a fisherman who reported it to the German authorities. The documents were swallowed whole and the operation proved to be a complete success.
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