The London Controlling Section (LCS) had spent some time convincing German commanders that the First United States Army Group (FUSAG) represented the bulk of the Allied invasion force.
As a result John Bevan, head of the London Controlling Section (LCS) and charged with overall organisation of Bodyguard, was concerned that visual/wireless deception would not be enough to create a believable threat.
Planning for Ironside fell to the London Controlling Section, with the operation carried out via double agents.
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Overall planning for Bodyguard, and Ironside, rested with John Bevan and the London Controlling Section (LCS).
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To bring about the deception, novelist and fellow deception officer Dennis Wheatley, based at the London Controlling Section, supplied Strangeways with a letter to an acquaintance in Cairo and a copy of his latest novel.