Thomas Argyll Robertson (27 October 1909 – 10 May 1994), known as "Tommy" or by his initials as "TAR", was a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

MI5 intelligence officer responsible during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

for the "Double-Cross" ("XX")

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campaign against the German intelligence services. Included in this was Operation Mincemeat. The disinformation campaign was successful in persuading the Germans that the invasions of

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(1943) and

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(

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) (6 June 1944) were going to occur elsewhere."ROBERTSON, Lt Col Thomas Argyll (1909-1994)
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/ref> Earlier in 1936, Robertson oversaw the interception of telephone calls of

Edward VIII Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India from 20 January 19 ...

, in which capacity he was the first to learn of the king's decision to abdicate.

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Officers of the Order of the British Empire 1909 births 1994 deaths MI5 personnel Double-Cross System Abdication of Edward VIII {{Espionage-bio-stub