For purposes of a larger deception,
the Allies agreed to allow the double agent Garbo to warn the Wehrmacht's
Abwehr of the Normandy landings. So just before D-Day, Garbo informed his
Abwehr handler that he would have important information shortly after midnight,
6 June 1944. But when he attempted to report the massive Normandy invasion a
few hours before the landings began, no one in Germany answered his hail.
Released from the burden of being the first warning of D-Day's arrival, Garbo
could smugly berate his control. Chagrined, the Germans apologized and told him
"to report anything suspicious: until further notice we shall be listening
here everyday' said his control; adding, a little surprisingly, 'except on
Sundays'
Source: ‘Delusions of Intelligence: Enigma, Ultra and the End of Secure Ciphers’, p185-6
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