Dennis Yates Wheatley was a British writer whose prolific output of thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through to the 1960s.
Portrait by Allan Warren, 1975
Wheatley's grave in Brookwood Cemetery
London Controlling Section
The London Controlling Section (LCS) was a British secret department established in September 1941, under Oliver Stanley, with a mandate to coordinate Allied strategic military deception during World War II. The LCS was formed within the Joint Planning Staff at the offices of the War Cabinet, which was presided over by Winston Churchill as Prime Minister.
The LCS kept a replica of this dancing faun on its conference table in London, symbolic of the ruses de guerre that the organisation played.
An inflatable dummy tank, modeled after the M4 Sherman and used as part of Operation Fortitude