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Captain Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu OBE,
QC,
DL (
March 19,
1901-
July 191985) was a British
judge,
writer and
intelligence officer.
The Hon. Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu was born in 1901, the second son of the prominent peer
Louis Samuel Montagu,
2nd Baron Swaythling. He was educated at
Westminster School before becoming a machine gun instructor during
World War I at a
United States Naval Air Station. After the war he studied in
Trinity College,
Cambridge and in
Harvard University before he was called to the bar in
1924.
During
World War II, Montagu served in the
Naval Intelligence Division of the British
Admiralty, where he conceived
Operation Mincemeat, a major deception plan against the
Germans during the war. For his role in Mincemeat, he was awarded the
Military Order of the British Empire. From
1945 to
1973 he held the position of
Judge Advocate of the Fleet. He wrote
The Man Who Never Was (
1953), a fair, responsible account of
Operation Mincemeat, which was made into a movie three years later. Montagu himself appeared in the film adaptation of
The Man Who Never Was, playing an
RAF officer who disparaged his own character (played by
Clifton Webb) in a briefing.
He was president of the
United Synagogue, 1954-62, and vice-president of the
Anglo-Jewish Association.
His brother
Ivor Montagu was a film maker and lifelong
Communist who is alleged to have spied for the
GRU. His
code name according to the
VENONA intercepts was
Nobility.
Other Books by Ewen Montagu
- The Archer-Shee Case (1974)
- Beyond Top Secret U (1977)
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