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Charles Cholmondeley (intelligence officer)

Cholmondeley (left) and Montagu in 1943

Charles Christopher Cholmondeley[a] MBE (27 January 1917 – 15 June 1982) was a British intelligence officer known for his leading role in Operation Mincemeat, a critical military deception operation which misdirected German forces' attention away from the Allied invasion of Sicily in Operation Husky.[2]

  1. ^ Macintyre 2010, p. 11.
  2. ^ "The War on Paper: Operation Mincemeat".


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