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• Does a primary source confirm Trout Memo item 28 was lifted from Basil Thomson's The Milliner's Hat Mystery?
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-10-01 · operation-mincemeat, basil-thomson, trout-memo, ian-fleming, deception
• Operation Mincemeat's corpse-with-forged-documents deception was lifted from Basil Thomson's 1937 novel The Milliner's Hat Mystery
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-09-30 · operation-mincemeat, basil-thomson, trout-memo, ian-fleming, deception
• Does a primary source (Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat, Shakespeare's Ian Fleming biography, or the Trout Memo itself) confirm that the memo's item 28 was lifted from Basil Thomson's The Milliner's Hat Mystery?
  question answered 2026-09-30 · operation-mincemeat, basil-thomson, trout-memo, verification