The Intelligence operation
Years ago I thought that the Intelligence operation planned and organised by Major Richard Meinertzhagen (Anthony Andrews), a disinformation strategy trying to make the Turks and the Germans believe that the main attack was against a different objective, using an imaginary British officer whose papers (including a letter from his "wife") were captured by a Turkish patrol, had been only Ian Jones's imagination. But I later discovered that there were real Intelligence operations there.
http://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/content/deception-games
The basic idea told in the film was applied in 1943,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat
There was a film as well: The Man Who Never Was (1956)
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