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  1. Charles Christopher Cholmondeley 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. Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu on 17 April 1943, transporting the body to Scotland. A month after the Turner crash, the British intelligence officer Charles Cholmondeley outlined his own variation of the Trout memo plan, codenamed Trojan Horse, after the Achaean deception from the Trojan War. His plan was:

  3. The idea was next picked up by Charles Cholmondeley, a very tall and myopic RAF officer who had been assigned to MI-5, Britain’s counterespionage service. Cholmondeley was assigned as secretary to the XX Committee.

  4. On Oct. 31, 1942, RAF Flight Lt. Charles Cholmondeley (pronounced “Chumly”), secretary of the top secret XX Committee led by John Masterman, presented his idea. Cholmondeley’s proposal, named “Trojan Horse,” was an expansion of Fleming’s suggestion.

  5. May 13, 2022 · Lieutenant Commander Ewen Montagu and Flight Lieutenant Charles Cholmondeley devise and execute a brilliant plan to plant fake documents on a corpse disguised as a naval officer and leave it in enemy territory.

  6. The deception succeeded, in part, because the naval intelligence officers behind it, Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, were so invested in the fiction.

  7. Dec 3, 2010 · Intelligence officers Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu had painstakingly transformed the corpse into a soldier - the fictitious Major William Martin - for whom they had...