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*When [[Erwin Rommel]] first landed in North Africa he held a review in which he paraded his men in a circular march in the hope that enemy agents would notice the length of the march and not the fact that the same units reappeared. This is more to be congratulated as the British were good in the deception department themselves.
* Operation Compass, the first Allied land victory or at least one of the first, is a downplayed version. The [[The British Empire|Imperial]] army made a series of demonstrations that if it did not involve real killing would resemble mischievous adolescents. The goal was to test the Italian's, cause a little damage, steal the initiative, and generally raise a ruckus. But it was also partially to deceive them into thinking they faced a larger force than they did and that was the most important result. The Italians either retreated in panic or remained in their trenches in equal panic and in either case were outmaneuvered when the Imperial offensive started in earnest.
*An inversion was the [[Double Agent|Double Cross System.]] The British managed to turn a number of key German agents. With this they were able to intercept further insertions of agents who were given [[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]. This project meant the British controlled every "enemy" agent in Britain and they refined this by creating "notational agents": cover ID's without an actual human attached to them existing only on the testimony of the "German" agents
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