Well if it was disinformation it worked because Donitz became rather obsessed about anything Metox included that radiated which seems rather silly when one considers his micromanaging of the U boat force by radio wireless was responsible for thousands of his sailor s lives Another point to be made is the bit in the article about how Metox rendered British radar completely ineffective Utter nonsense Metox detected radar it didn t magically nullify its ability to detect a surfaced submarine I also don t think forum discussions on uboat net are reliable sources