GERMAN SPIES DECEIVED

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 5

GERMAN SPIES DECEIVED

£X)RD MONTGOMERY IMPERSONATED (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) /« ec 9 p.m.) LONDON, June 18. The officially sponsored impersonation of Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery by a lieutenant of the Litish Army Pay Corps add his ostentatious dispatch from Gibraltar to Algiers, where he was received by Field-Marshal Maitland Wilson and senior officers for the Sjfication of enemy spies, is recalled hvthe demobilisation this week of the man who carried out the impersonation. Lieutenant M. Clifton-James. A* newspaper photograph attracted the attention of British intelligence officers to the extraordinary likeness between Lieutenant Clifton-James and rnrd Montgomery, and the lieutenant was sent to meet Lord Montgomery and secretly studied his voice, gestures. and mannerisms. Then a few days before the invasion of Normandy the Pay Corps subaltern was seen off by senior members of the Imnerial General Staff and received with all the attention due to his “rank” at Gibstar and Algiers. Subsequent information obtained from German files revealed that the Germans were deceived by the ruse. Their agents reported immediately that Lord Montgomery was absent from his invasion base. Lieutenant Clifton-James, who is an actor in civil life, has written a book about his adventures as Lord Montgomery. which at present is being checked by the War Office.