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Summary

The rumour that British pilots saw in the dark because they ate carrots was planted to hide the existence of radar.

Operation Mincemeat used a corpse carrying forged documents to mislead the Germans about the invasion of Europe, and Patton’s ghost army built a fictional force to misdirect the landings.

On the other side of it, breaking Enigma let the Allies read the enemy’s intentions in advance.

Key points

1. 01

   Information was a weapon long before the digital age

   All six are information operations, the same shape as what we see in current conflicts.

2. 02

   Good disinformation needs someone who wants to believe it

   The carrot story survives today because it sounds healthy, not because there is evidence.

3. 03

   Reading the enemy costs you pretending not to

   Enigma stayed useful only while the Germans did not know, which forced deliberate losses.

4. 04

   The legacy sits inside present-day beliefs

   Some of it is still repeated as fact.