Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Why Doesn't Character Generation Always Involve An "Office-Wide Beauty Contest"?

James Bond creator helps trick Germans into moving a whole Panzer division via graverobbing, forgery, and painstaking chargen...

Check it.

Really, seriously. Listen. So good.

5 comments:

thekelvingreen said...

I love these stories.

Chris said...

The Man Who Never Was?

Great story. Humbling.

fishlemons said...

Marvelous

Delta said...

For the text-inclined, New Yorker had an article on Operation Mincemeat a few months back: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/05/10/100510crat_atlarge_gladwell?currentPage=all

ravenconspiracy said...

That was totally sweet.