Exactly as Churchill described, the effect was to create a bodyguard, or protective area, around troops or leaders. In the Pacific theater, when a real attack was planned against Guam and Saipan, Arlington Hall created fake traffic to divert Japanese attention to Alaska. They created fake traffic to enable the deployment of the Fifth Infantry Division from the Iceland Base Command to the United Kingdom. They used fake traffic to disguise movements to and from the Yalta Conference.
