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minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·28 days agoNot to my knowledge, though there was a great deal of effort put into ferreting out spies by using common shibboleths, especially during the European theatre in late 1944 and 1945, when German commandos were using American and British uniforms to infiltrate Allied lines.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·28 days agoThings like this did happen. Read about a spy who was busted eating his pie from the wrong direction. Americans start at the tip, Europeans start at the “back”. This was WWI or WWII and may be apocryphal.
Did this actually happen?
Not to my knowledge, though there was a great deal of effort put into ferreting out spies by using common shibboleths, especially during the European theatre in late 1944 and 1945, when German commandos were using American and British uniforms to infiltrate Allied lines.
Things like this did happen. Read about a spy who was busted eating his pie from the wrong direction. Americans start at the tip, Europeans start at the “back”.
This was WWI or WWII and may be apocryphal.