English: An MI5 staff member pictured on beach. This ordinary looking snapshot planted as part of a complex Second World War intelligence plan known as Operation Mincemeat.
The intention was that this photograph would make other documents secreted with it seem more authentic. These documents, passed on to German agents after they were found on a body washed up on the coast of Spain (planted by British intelligence) suggested that the Allies were not planning an invasion of southern Europe via Sicily. This led to a weakening of German defence of Sicily which assisted the eventual Allied attack.
Ceci est la conséquence de l'un des points suivants :
il s'agit d'une photographie créée par le Gouvernement du Royaume-Uni, prise avant le 1er juin 1957 ;
il s'agit d'une photographie ou d'une gravure créée par le Gouvernement du Royaume-Uni et publiée à titre commercial avant 1974 ;
il s'agit d'une œuvre d'art autre qu'une photographie ou qu'une gravure (par exemple, une peinture), créée par le Gouvernement du Royaume-Uni avant 1974.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by The National Archives UK at https://www.flickr.com/photos/31575009@N05/3002456571. It was reviewed on 2014-07-23 15:51:31 by FlickreviewR, who found it to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions, which is compatible with the Commons. It is, however, not the same license as specified on upload, which was the cc-by-2.0, and it is unknown whether that license ever was valid.
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