Ops (B) was a deception planning department within the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) during the Second World War. Established...
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Ops (B) was an Allied military deception planning department, based in the United Kingdom, during the Second World War. It was set up under Colonel Jervis-Read...
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Operation Mincemeat (category EngvarB from November 2018)
G.S. [Chief of the Imperial General Staff] felt that our forces for the assault were insufficient. It was agreed by the Chiefs of Staff that the 5th...
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Operation Fortitude (category EngvarB from December 2022)
ostensibly sat with Noel Wild and his Ops (B) staff. In practice, it was a collaboration between Wild and the heads of the London Controlling Section and...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II is a 2012 first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It was released for Microsoft Windows...
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Ghost Army (redirect from The Ghost Army of World War II)
Jeffries (D-NY); Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown Jr.; The Honorable Tanya Bradsher, Deputy Secretary of Veteran Affairs; General...
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Bill Blass (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
Dressed List Hall of Fame List. In 1994, Blass gave $10 million to the New York Public Library. In recognition of the gift, the Public Catalog Room of the...
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Operation Bodyguard (category World War II operations and battles of the Western European Theatre)
the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Commander Allied Forces (COSSAC), Frederick E. Morgan. Under his regime, the deception department, Ops (B), had received...
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Call of Duty: Black Ops is a 2010 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It was released worldwide in November 2010...
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Dennis Wheatley (category British Army personnel of World War I)
Fiction and The Deception Planners). The most famous of his submissions to the Joint Planning Staff of the war cabinet was on "Total War". He received a...
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MI9 (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
Mary Lindell. agent in France Airey Neave Trix Terwindt, Dutch agent The Staff of MI9 (At Wilton Park. Beaconsfield, Bucks. February 1940) Lt. Col. N.R....
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First United States Army Group (category Army groups of the United States Army)
and his staff transferred to the headquarters of the new army group. Despite a lack of personnel, FUSAG continued to exist on paper as part of the deception...
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of Duty: Black Ops III is a 2015 first-person shooter game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It is the twelfth entry in the Call of Duty...
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accident. Eventually, Lieutenant-Colonel J. V. B. Jervis-Reid, head of Ops (B), spotted a photograph of M. E. Clifton James in the News Chronicle. James...
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Dudley Clarke (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
organise the British repression of the 1936 Arab uprising. During the Second World War, Clarke joined John Dill's staff, where he proposed and helped to...
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Double-Cross System (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
existed. Section B1A (a subordinate of B section, under Guy Liddell) was formed and Robertson was put in charge of handling the double-agent programme...
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Russian military deception (category Cold War history of the Soviet Union)
large-scale deception. Proof of the success of the Soviet deception came, Adair notes, from the Chief of the German General Staff, General Kurt Zeitzler, who...
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Jasper Maskelyne (category British Army personnel of World War II)
the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of an established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne. He is most...
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releasing Black Ops (2010) and subsequently creating the Black Ops sub-series. Five more entries, Black Ops II (2012), Black Ops III (2015), Black Ops 4 (2018)...
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Operation Barclay (category Allied invasion of Sicily)
in support of Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943. The goal was to deceive the Axis powers as to the location of the Allies'...
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D-Day naval deceptions (category World War II aerial operations and battles of the Western European Theatre)
The naval contingent, Special Task Force B under the command of Lieutenant Commander W. M. Rankin, consisted of 12 HDMLs equipped with jamming gear, radios...
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The 9th Airborne Division of the United States Army was a military deception created in 1944 as part of Fortitude South II It was initially depicted as...
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Fourth Army (United Kingdom) (category Field armies of the United Kingdom)
formed part of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War. The Fourth Army was formed on 5 February 1916 under the command of General Sir...
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55th Infantry Division (United States) (category Fictional units of World War II)
Division was a 'phantom division' created in October 1943 to cover the departure of the US 5th Infantry Division from Iceland. An entirely notional force, its...
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Operation Waterfall (category World War II operations and battles of Europe)
Operation Waterfall was part of Operation Barclay, which was a deception to try to trick the Germans into thinking the Allies would land elsewhere in the...
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Roman Czerniawski (category EngvarB from June 2017)
1941, the Abwehr group of Hugo Bleicher arrested Czerniawski and then Carré. The network had been uncovered because of the lack of proper operational security...
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Ellsworth Kelly (category CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list)
MuckRock. 2017-09-12. Retrieved 2023-06-05. Gormly, Kellie B. (5 July 2022). "How the Ghost Army of WWII Used Art to Deceive the Nazis". Smithsonian Magazine...
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The United States Army created a large number of notional deception formations that were used in a number of World War II deception operations. The most...
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Johnny Jebsen (category EngvarB from June 2017)
dead on 17 February 1950. List of people who disappeared Tonkin, Boyd (6 April 2010). "Review of Double Cross: the True Story of D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre"...
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Starfish site (category Battle of Britain)
SF1(b). With SF1 referring to Bristol the first town/city to be protected and (a) to (f) being its Starfish sites. The Black Down site appears to SF1(b)...
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