The Dennis Wheatley 'Museum' - Dennis Wheatley in World War II: a supplement

LCS’s assessment of the efficacy of Strategic Deception to date

The opening page as reproduced in DW’s unpublished memoirs

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The reference to deterring the enemy from using gas warfare (see section 6b)

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While they were working on OVERLORD, Johnny Bevan got his team to draw up a paper for the Chiefs of Staff assessing the results of Strategic Deception so far.

Going to the Chiefs of Staff on 5^th February 1944, it is an interesting document, and is reproduced in full in the first version of DW’s unpublished memoirs.

One point of interest is that it records among a list of ‘Other Deception Plans’ that they prepared and implemented:

‘Plans to deter the enemy from resorting to gas warfare’.

The fact that – in contrast to World War One – the Germans never resorted to gas warfare in World War Two - may therefore be in part due to the deception activities of L.C.S., who presumably put in about that if the Germans did resort to gas warfare, the Allies had something up-their-sleeves with which to respond which was far, far worse.