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#4116521 - 05/05/15 06:12 PM Truth really is stranger than fiction sometimes  
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I was reading about the Allied raid on Dieppe during WW2 today and I came across this fascinating part,


Daily Telegraph crossword

On 17 August 1942, the clue "French port (6)" appeared in the Daily Telegraph crossword (compiled by Leonard Dawe), followed by the solution, "Dieppe" the next day; on 19 August, the raid on Dieppe took place.[10] The War Office suspected that the crossword had been used to pass intelligence to the enemy and called upon Lord Tweedsmuir, then a senior intelligence officer attached to the Canadian Army, to investigate the crossword. Tweedsmuir, the son of John Buchan the author and Governor General of Canada, later commented: "We noticed that the crossword contained the word 'Dieppe', and there was an immediate and exhaustive inquiry which also involved MI5. But in the end it was concluded that it was just a remarkable coincidencea complete fluke."[11]

A similar crossword coincidence occurred in May 1944, prior to D-Day. Multiple terms associated with Operation Overlord (including the word "Overlord" itself) appeared in the Daily Telegraph crossword (also written by Dawe), and after another investigation by MI5 this was concluded to be a remarkable coincidence as well. Further to this, a former student identified that Dawe frequently requested words from his students, many of whom were children in the same area as US military personnel.[12]


The moral of the story? Be careful what you say around kids! smile

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#4116539 - 05/05/15 06:40 PM Re: Truth really is stranger than fiction sometimes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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cool ....or as Spock might have said ..fascinating smile

I bet that the "exhuastive and immediate inquiry" was actually more of a "HOLY CRAP" panic.


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#4116746 - 05/06/15 07:12 AM Re: Truth really is stranger than fiction sometimes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Cool story.


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#4116752 - 05/06/15 08:01 AM Re: Truth really is stranger than fiction sometimes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Can't remember where i first read this, very strange. Bet you Dawe thought he was in a world of trouble at the time biggrin


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#4116825 - 05/06/15 12:26 PM Re: Truth really is stranger than fiction sometimes [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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At this point, Dawe began looking at old Canadian crossword puzzles for inspiration instead.

Unfortunately, on June 6 he made one with the clue "invasion point" and the answer "Normandy". Satan laughed gleefully.




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