The recent deception operation using the alleged--Bin Laden's or doppelganger's body--is a replay of Commander Ian Fleming's Operation MINCEMEAT of 1943:
http://www.combatreform.org/wagthebinladen.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/books/review/Conant-t.html
Macintyre, whose previous book chronicled the incredible exploits of Eddie Chapman, the crook turned spy known as Zigzag, excels at this sort of twisted narrative. He traces the origins of the operation to the top-secret "Trout Fisher" memo signed by Adm. John Godfrey, the director of Britain's naval intelligence, in September 1939, barely three weeks into the war. "The Trout Fisher," said the memo, in that peculiarly sporting style that only the English can pull off, "casts patiently all day. He frequently changes his venue and his lures." Although issued under Godfrey's name, it was most likely the work of Ian Fleming, whose gift for intelligence planning and elaborate plots, most of which were too far-fetched to ever implement, later served him so well in his James Bond series. The memo was "a masterpiece of corkscrew thinking," Macintyre writes, laying out 51 schemes for deceiving the Germans at sea, including one to drop soccer balls coated with phosphorus to attract submarines, and another to set adrift tins of booby-trapped treats. Far down on the list of suggestions, No. 28 — "not a very nice one," the author(s) conceded — proposed using a corpse, dressed as an airman, carrying spurious secret documents.
That this suggestion was in turn based on an idea used in a detective novel by Basil Thomson, an ex-policeman and former tutor to the King of Siam who made his name as a spy catcher in World War I, only adds to the fantastic quality of Macintyre's entertaining tale. First Fleming, an ardent bibliophile, dusted off this quaint literary ploy; then the trout-fishing admiral, who always appreciated a good yarn, had the cunning to know that "the best stories are also true," and dispatched his team to turn fiction into reality. In many ways it was a very old story at that, as indicated by the operation's first code name, "Trojan Horse." A bit of gallows humor led to the plan's name being changed to the rather tasteless Operation Mincemeat.
The "terrorist who never was" involved top-secret MH-60 StealthHawk assault helicopters--one of whom was lost:
http://www.combatreform.org/uh60stealthhawklostduringwagthebinladenraid.htm
Notice the pics of the dead men at the bottom of the web page above: NO BIN LADEN!
http://www.jamesbondisforreal.com
James Bond is REAL.
