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Robert Hutton

Robert Hutton

Robert Hutton is the author of Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5’s Secret Nazi Hunter. For 16 years, he was Bloomberg’s U.K. political correspondent. He lives in London.

Clarke and his team created forces that could be found nowhere except in the meticulous files of A Force and, crucially, in German intelligence reports.

To Trick the Nazis, This Master of Deception Invented Fake Fleets and Armies

During World War II, British officer Dudley Clarke led A Force, a Cairo-based military unit that fed false information to the Germans