Irish Daily Mirror

D-day decoy tip that beat Nazis for sale

- BY VICKY SMITH

Mr Garcia A Top-secret telex that wrongly told the Germans the D-day landings were a diversion is going under the hammer tomorrow.

It was sent by one of Britain’s most valuable double agents, Juan Pujol Garcia, three days after the Normandy invasion started on June 6, 1944.

And Hitler acted on the dodgy tip, not sending extra forces for seven weeks as he feared a larger invasion at Pas-de-calais.

The telex tells of diversion manoeuvres “to draw attention to them and strike on a different location”. It ended up in the possession of a War Office worker and is now set to fetch €250 at auction in Lostwithie­l, Cornwall.

Ian Morris, of auctioneer­s Jefferys, said: “This is of great historical interest.”

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