Operation Details

Gilmerton

'Gilmerton' was a British unrealised deception plan to feed false information to a German general, who was a prisoner of war and about to be repatriated (1943/44).

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The false information was that Germany was to be bombed to total destruction, but the plan was not implemented as a result of the opposition of Clement Attlee, the deputy prime minister.

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