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Before Michael, finding a usable [[cadaver]] had been difficult, as indiscreet inquiries would cause talk, and it was impossible to tell a dead man's next of kin what the body was wanted for. The dead man's parents had died and no known relatives were found.<ref name=times>{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article6986802.ece | title=Operation Mincemeat: full story of how corpse tricked the Nazis |publisher=The Times |date=January 14, 2010 |first=Ben |last=Macintyre}}</ref> The body was released on the condition that the man's real identity would never be revealed. [[Ewen Montagu]] later claimed the man died from pneumonia, and that the family had been contacted and permission obtained, but none of this was true. <ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-government/13734274-1.html |title=The Real Man Who Never Was |first=Anna |last=Pukas |work=allbusiness.com |date=15 January 2010 |accessdate=23 February 2011}}</ref>
On the 30 April, [[Norman Jewell|Lt. Jewell]] captain of the submarine [[HMS Seraph (P219)|Seraph]], read the [[39th Psalm]] and Michael's body was gently pushed into the sea where the tide would bring it ashore off [[Huelva]] on the Spanish Atlantic coast.
Michael's body was picked up by a fisherman and he was buried as Major William Martin with full military honours. His grave lies in Huelva's cemetery of Nuestra Senora, in the San Marco section. The headstone, reads
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