However, the Allies had a problem. Hitler and his generals would see this attack coming a mile off as Sicily was the most obvious target. What was needed was a plan to throw the Führer off the scent. It was decided that a disinformation campaign (later named Operation Barclay) would be deployed to try and trick the Germans into thinking the attack would be on the Balkans, not Sicily.

Multiple deception operations were mounted to throw the Axis off the scent. These included the building up of a fake army in the eastern Mediterranean, the broadcast of deceptive radio chatter, the buying up of large quantities of Greek maps and the hiring of Greek translators. All helped convince the enemy that an attack was imminent on the Balkans, but what really sealed the deal was Operation Mincemeat.

Mincemeat was first floated as an idea back in 1939 by none other than Ian Fleming - the man who would later gain worldwide fame as the creator of James Bond. Fleming had been asked to come up with a series of deception schemes at the start of the war, and one of his ideas was dropping a dead body loaded with fake documents behind enemy lines.