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Sep 9, 2026
Operation Mincemeat | How Lies Helped Win the War | 4
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6:50Helen FryGUEST
They've got microphones hidden everywhere, and they're there from when they're captured at various points, 1943, after D-Day, in June '44, until the end of the war, and we are picking up all this.
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7:02Helen FryGUEST
So that was a very different scenario to the other two sites, Latimer House and Wilton Park in Buckinghamshire, and these were reserved for lower-ranked prisoners who were there for just a few days.
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7:14Helen FryGUEST
The intelligence services constructed a sort of single story army building at both sites behind the mansion houses, and that's where the M room was, M for miked, where the secret listeners were.
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7:26Helen FryGUEST
So they were actually behind the cells, behind the interrogation rooms.
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7:38Helen FryGUEST
They don't know what they're doing.
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7:40Helen FryGUEST
But it was all designed to make them relax.
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7:42Helen FryGUEST
And of course, when they go back to their cell, i- in the case of Latimer House and Wilton Park, they give up to their mate.
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7:49Helen FryGUEST
They're chatting about, "Well, I didn't tell the interrogator this." "Well, did he ask you that?" "No.