Chapter 481: Strategic Deception (2)
As for the candidates who landed on the ground troops, it is well known that the Allied generals who can take on this position are either US Lieutenant General Patton or British Lieutenant General Montgomery. Biwan took the trick to let Patton serve as the commander of the First Army Group. On April 26, Patton arrived in southeastern England, inspected the troops, met local officials, and visited celebrities from all walks of life.
The press kept reporting on his whereabouts, and Patton also spoke at the opening ceremony of a club: "After the war, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union will rule the world..." However, when it was published in the newspaper, the Soviet Union was missing, which triggered a diplomatic storm.
What is puzzling is that it was the eve of the landing, and the British news inspection was extremely strict, so it was impossible to make such omissions and make speeches that affected the unity of the allies. The only explanation is that this was a carefully planned scam, just to strengthen the impression that Patton appeared in southeast England, so that the German army would think that Patton, as the commander of the landing force, frequently appeared in southeast England, which naturally meant that the landing would be in Calais.
The real army commander of the landing force, Montgomery, devoted himself to planning and researching combat plans at the command of Portsmouth. Biwan also chose the Army Lieutenant James, who looked very similar to Montgomery. He lived with Montgomery for several months, and learned in detail about Montgomery's likes and dislikes, habits and other life details in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. Then he dressed up as Montgomery to visit Gibraltar and Cairo, causing the illusion that Montgomery was not in the UK.
This led the German army to infer that Montgomery was not in Britain at this time, naturally he would not be the commander of the landing. The "Mercury Project" made the German Command understand that in southeastern England. The Allied forces assembled about 40 divisions to form the first army group with Patton as commander. Then the main attack direction of the landing must be Calais.
"Glimmer Project": Electronic interference and electronic spoofing implemented by the Allied Air Force. According to the special command of the Supreme Command, the large radio listening and deciphering base established by the German army in The Hague, Netherlands was first violently bombed, completely destroying it, and eliminating the threat to Allied radio communications.
Secondly, during a large-scale air strike on German radar stations, the German army deliberately did not bomb the nine radar stations north of the Seine River, so that the German army could use these radar stations to discover the fake fleet sent by the Allied forces before landing. The fake fleet sailed towards Calais three hours before landing. A total of 18 small boats were composed of rafts, each small boat towed with a large balloon with a diameter of 29 feet. A radar transmitter was installed in the balloon, and the radar signal was equivalent to the radar signal of a Wanton-class landing ship. There were dozens of aircraft flying and throwing tin foil strips.
These measures are reflected on the screen of the German radar station as a huge landing fleet sailing towards Calais under the cover of a large number of aircraft. In order to further confuse the German army, the Air Force specifically stipulated in its combat operations before the battle: Anyone who sends a reconnaissance plane or drops a ton of bombs must be sent to Calais or drops a 2 ton of bombs.
The use of double-faced espionage is also an important part of the "Guardian Program". Due to the excellent work of the British counter-espionage agencies, some German spies in the UK were cracked down shortly after the war began. German expatriates were isolated and reviewed, and some German spies in the UK were eliminated.
Although German intelligence agencies have continuously sent agents to infiltrate into the UK, one is the UK's counter-espionage agencies are more efficient. Two is the UK's currency and weights and measures are completely different from those of the European continent, making it easy for spies entering the UK to be noticed, so Germany has never been able to carry out intelligence work in the UK.
The UK specially formed the "Double Cross Committee" to engage in the arrested German spies to rebel and become double-faced spies in British services. After long-term patient and meticulous training, it finally has four double-faced spies believed by German intelligence agencies: "Gabao", "Zhenbao", "Tricycle" and "Brewster".
Among them, the most trusted and influential one is "Gabao". "Gabao" is an Spanish man, with his real name Juan Pujol Gassia. He asked to join the British intelligence agency twice, but was rejected. In January 1941, he defected to the German intelligence agency and was ordered to sneak into the UK through Portugal. However, after he arrived in Portugal, he lied that he had entered the UK. He also fabricated some intelligence based on his talent in fabricating intelligence, and most of them were correct, so he was highly valued and trusted by Germany.
It was not until February 1941 that the British discovered that the German Navy and Air Force launched a large-scale interception of an allied escort fleet to Malta, but there was no such fleet at all. The British intelligence agencies immediately found out that this was the masterpiece of "Gabau", so they contacted him and secretly took him to Britain.
With the assistance of the "Double Cross Committee", the carefully planned true and false information was sent to Germany continuously, thus establishing the status of ace agent in the German intelligence agencies, receiving the task of identifying the First Army Group [that is, the troops created by the "Mercury Project"], and taking the opportunity to report the intelligence of the First Army Group's forces and other information.
"Zhenbao" is a French woman of Russian descent, Lily Seyer. It was she who reported in detail about the situation of the First Army Group and won the trust of the German intelligence agencies. The German intelligence agencies also specifically asked her to go to Spain to equip her with a direct contact radio station. You should know that equipping with a radio station for female spies is extremely rare in German intelligence agencies, and the degree to which she is valued can be seen.
"Brutes" was a former Polish Air Force officer. He organized underground resistance in France in the summer of 1940 and was arrested in November 1940. The German spy agency threatened him to serve Germany with the lives of the remaining 64 members of his group. He came to the UK via Spain and immediately surrendered himself to the British intelligence agency. Then, with the cooperation of the British intelligence agency, he began to send reports to Germany outside London. From January to June 1941, a total of 123 pieces of intelligence were sent to Germany, almost each of which was confirmed to be accurate by the German intelligence agency and was deeply believed by the German army.
In the "Guardians Project", the UK also organized an extremely cunning, even cruel and despicable operation. In July 1941, the Resistance Movement Group, code-named "Prosperity", belonging to the British Special Operations Office in northern France, was cracked by the German Geistaipo due to the rumor of Henry Delhigu. Dozens of Resistance Movement members, including the person in charge, were arrested.
The arrested "Prosperity" group radio operators continued to maintain contact with the British headquarters because the radio operator's fingering was like a person's handwriting, which was difficult to fake. The radio operator took the plane to warn the headquarters without sending a security password in advance. The so-called security password was deliberately spelled or repeated on a certain line of certain words. If the words were not spelled or repeated at the agreed place, it means that the radio station had been controlled by Germany.
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