Sentence examples for double cross operation from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the best known was the British "Double Cross" operation, described in a 2012 book by Ben Macintyre.

When MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence service, realized that it had turned all of Germany's spies into double agents, it started  the Double Cross operation.

"What if?" history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day — including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery — believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

The British spy Anthony Blount called Garbo's coup "the greatest double cross operation of the war".

He did not live to see how his discovery was a key factor behind the success of the "D-Day Double Cross" deception operation.

These breakthroughs were crucial to the success of the Double Cross System, a British operation that used captured German spies to feed false information back to Germany.

MI5 had captured a number of German spies sent to Britain and was using them to feed fake intelligence to the Abwehr, German military intelligence, in an operation known as the Double Cross system.

We had known that MI5 controlled German spies dropped into the UK under the Double Cross system but little was known about operations to control domestic sympathisers.

"Double Cross" is Ben Macintyre's third book about World War II espionage, following the acclaimed "Agent Zigzag" and "Operation Mincemeat".

Double Cross, by Ben Macintyre (Crown).

Was the main appeal of writing the book a synthesis of the available details? The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.