I don't remember that. As far as I can see all that story about deception via double agents traces its origin from the Starinov's memoirs which were published not earlier than 1990s. Personally I don't find the story trustworthy. I mean that some info was really fed to double agents but I doubt anything serious about Soviet operational plans was disclosed not to say about launching full-scale military operations with the sole goal of decrypting somebody". Pay attention that Zhukov told about physical effect of engaging and pinning down German forces at Rzhev rather than about any sort of deception. As for "everything went as planned" part it, it didn't originate from Zhukov as I wrote earlier.paspartoo wrote: Are you sure that Soviet histories have not attributed other statements to Zhukov?