What I learned from the folks over at WW2 in Real Time / TimeGhost History (check them out, they have dedicated D-Day channel with a 24 hour real time coverage

What I learned from the folks over at WW2 in Real Time / TimeGhost History (check them out, they have dedicated D-Day channel with a 24 hour real time coverage coming up on June 6th), is the following: Someone with access to Overlord code words inadvertidly leaked them to authors of cross words. As a result, everything from Neptune over beach names to Overlord were solutions in cross-words. The leaker was arrested and interogated, upon release hebtold his collegue to burn the notebook containing those words. Only years after the death of the arrested, did the other person come clean (details on the WW2 channel). Truely crazy stuff! I'm curious of their coverage of Operation Bagration, and the Soviet shell games around that. After all, they fooled the Germans to the point of stripping Army Group center of basically all armor! Another fun fact: Gehlen, the guy chosen to create the post-war BND, was a big head in Fremde Heere Ost. And as such directly involved in each and every German intel blunder on the eastern front. Only thing he had going for him: he was a staunch anti-communist.