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operation mincemeat was a World War two deception an operation to fool the Germans into thinking allies were not going to invade Sicily to do this they aim to plant fake invasion plans in the hands of the Nazis and a set of documents was painstakingly created by mi5 s20 committee in Roman numerals 20 is XX double-cross Sinjin Ratcliffe Stuart horse fall button on his jock is a bit of a hero of mine jobs a pre-war aston martin racing driver engineer an all-round practical joker and he had a key role in operation mincemeat but as just 23 he bought his first aston martin any tookit racing and he was a pretty handy driver within the year it actually won at class win at brooklands and the year after he won the RAC Tourist Trophy race at donington jock wore special goggles as his eyesight was dismal he often didn't bother with a helmet and raced in shirt and tie by 1937 the clouds of war was starting to gather over Europe and jock horse falls racing career was temporarily put on hold his wartime duties involved delivering captured enemy agents to mi5 for interrogation before in 1943 he was tasked with something rather special codenamed operation mincemeat this archetypal eccentric Englishman had a rare set of skills and when war broke out he joined mi5 he reported here Hackney mortuary together with officers Montague and Chumlee where they collected something rather special and set off as Scotland in the dead of night in jocks van we however are going to take the Aston he's always wanted to say that okay kick me out with some stats well we've got a car that is capable of hitting 60 miles