She sold soap to Nazi officers. They thought she was their spy. She was Britain's.
Elvira de la Fuente Chaudoir — codename BRONX — was a Lima-born socialite turned MI5 double agent who charmed her way into the confidence of German intelligence on the French Riviera. While the Abwehr believed they were running her, she was feeding them one of the most elaborate lies in military history. Every message she sent helped convince Hitler that the real D-Day invasion was still coming — at the wrong beach. The Panzer divisions that could have driven the Allies back into the sea sat waiting for a blow that never landed. Normandy held. And almost nobody has ever heard her name.



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