World War II espionage is crazy and very deserving of a movie or TV series.

Operation Mincemeat was a similarly-outlandish exercise. The British dressed up a dead tramp as a fictitious military captain, and gave him a whole realistic backstory through the objects on his person, such as a photograph of his "fiancé," a receipt for an engagement ring, theater ticket stubs, and a fake ID.

They also planted fake correspondence on him, including a mention that the British were to invade Sardinia (when the actual invasion was going to be of Sicily). They took the corpse with them on a submarine and literally just threw him in the water off the coast of Spain for the Germans to find. A British spy convinced the Spanish autopsy technicians to take a lunch break so they wouldn't notice that the obviously-drowned man had actually died from eating rat poison three months before.

And yeah, the whole thing actually worked.

Think about it. The Imitation Game meets Weekend at Bernie's.