{"id":3906,"date":"2010-05-03T12:35:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T17:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2010-05-03T12:35:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T17:35:04","slug":"gladwell-pandora%e2%80%99s-briefcase-on-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/05\/03\/gladwell-pandora%e2%80%99s-briefcase-on-espionage\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladwell&#8211;Pandora\u2019s Briefcase (on espionage)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 10 May 2010 issue of The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2010\/05\/10\/100510crat_atlarge_gladwell?printable=true\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">Pandora&#8217;s Briefcase<\/a>, a review of Ben Macintyre\u2019s book, &#8220;Operation Mincemeat.&#8221; It is the retelling of the &#8220;William Martin&#8221; story and the deceiving of German Intelligence during WWII.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey know you know they know you know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In my youth, I first read about &#8220;Operation Mincemeat&#8221; in Ewen Montagu&#8217;s 1953 book, &#8220;The Man Who Never Was.&#8221; Montagu was one of the &#8220;creators&#8221; of &#8220;William Martin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Note:\u00a0 New Yorker links eventually disappear behind its paywall.<\/p>\n<p>-RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 10 May 2010 issue of The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell writes Pandora&#8217;s Briefcase, a review of Ben Macintyre\u2019s book, &#8220;Operation Mincemeat.&#8221; It is the retelling of the &#8220;William Martin&#8221; story and the deceiving of German Intelligence during WWII. \u201cThey know you know they know you know.\u201d In my youth, I first read about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}