The disastrous Dieppe raid during World War Two was designed as a decoy by James Bond writer Ian Fleming so German refugee commandos could secretly pinch the Nazis' new Enigma coding machine, a new book claims. German refugees who had escaped the Nazis were reportedly put at the at the centre of military planning for the August 1942 raid on Dieppe in France by Lord Mountbatten and Fleming, then a senior naval intelligence officer. A new book entitled X-Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War Two describes how the five refugees were supposed to break into a hotel used by Nazi military commanders and steal the Enigma machine and its code books while Allied troops staged a frontal assault on the occupied port.