Operation Mincemeat - The women behind the plot to fool Hitler
I am working in editing our latest episode. Lisa and I recorded about the women of “Operation Mincemeat”, an elaborate Allied plot during WW2 designed to fool Hitler into shifting his troops. There were a few main women key to this story. This is one… Jean Leslie: The Woman Behind the Deception That Fooled Hitler In the vast web of World War II espionage, Operation Mincemeat stands out as one of the boldest and strangest deceptions ever executed. At its heart was a fabricated identity, a corpse dressed as a British officer, floating ashore with “top secret” documents. But behind this audacious ruse stood an unexpected heroine: Jean Leslie, a young British secretary whose photograph would become the linchpin in a global bluff. Jean Leslie was just 19 years old when she joined MI5, Britain’s domestic counter-intelligence agency. Intelligent and composed, she was assigned to clerical and administrative duties—crucial work often overshadowed by the more glamorous ima...