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Originally Posted by barney-fife";p="
In 1944, General Eisenhower met with a group of reporters, months before the D-Day invasion. Eisenhower told the reporters zero hour would come in early June. A reporter asked Eisenhower why he would be disclosing to reporters such top-secret information. Eisenhower replied he knew these reporters were patriotic Americans and would never share this information with any one else. And they didn’t.
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Do you have a cite for this? Because this sounds unlikely to me. Eisenhower took serious pains to conceal the timing of the attack. Although if it was something as generic as "early June", maybe that's possible. Overlord was too big an operation to conceal entirely. Just about everyone, on both sides, anticipated the general timing of the invasion -- give or take a couple of weeks.
But if the information were truly "top secret", Eisenhower wouldn't have told anybody who didn't need to know.