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    The codename for the overall deception plan (under which there were several specific operations with their own codenames) to mislead German intelligence about the true time and place of the Normandy invasion was BODYGUARD...the name was inspired by a quote of Winston Churchill's...can you give this quote?

    Question #17333. Asked by xhistory. (Mar 15 02 4:42 PM)


    Jack Flash

    		This comes from a remark made by Churchill to Stalin at the Teheran Conference at the end of 1943: 'In war-time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.' See The Encyclopedia of World War Two.

    Mar 15 02, 4:52 PM

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