Dudley Clarke

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Anthony Simon
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Dudley Clarke

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One of the heroes of Nicholas Rankin's book Churchill's Wizards, The British Genius for Deception is Dudley Clarke:
The twin avatars of British strategic deception and black propoganda in WW2, Dudley Clarke and Sefton Delmer, were both men pulled between two worlds. Dudley Clarke was an artistic type, inventive and theatrical, who had to find an outlet for his creative ingenuity within the rigidities of the British army...

Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, RA, the man who was to become the eminence grice of WW2 strategic deception seemed a conventional enough colonel....'Sphinx-like' was how someone described the ivory mask quality of [the] man...You would not notice him in a crowd and he was never famous, yet Field Marshall Harold Alexander believed that he did as much to win the war as any other single officer. He ended up as Brigadier Dudley Clarke CB, CBE, the greatest British deceiver of WW2...
The reason I'm posting this, though, is that Clarke was arrested by the Spanish police in 1941 dressed as a
...lipsticked, kohl-eyed 'woman'...wearing an elegant, slim-fitting day dress printed with passion flowers and three strands of pearls, perfectly accessorised by dark stockings and high-heeled court shoes, a chic small white white handbag and a pale close-fitting turban...
There's a picture of Clarke like this (and another one en drab) at:

http://zagria.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/du ... agent.html

This is part of an article about him on a TG site. His wiki entry gives more detail on his wartime exploits, including inventing the Commandos and the SAS (which originated as a deception) and naming the US army Rangers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Clarke

It does look like he was a CD, though not an 'out' one.
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Stephanie H
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Re: Dudley Clarke

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A very patriotic indivual and someone who was able to get it done without being compromised.
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