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“Pujol is one of the most extraordinary characters. He ended up fighting for both sides during the Second World War. Sometime in 1941 he decided that someone had to put a stop to Hitler and he was going to do that…they brought him back to England where he ended up playing a massive role in the success of D-Day. Incidentally, he was known as Garbo because he was so good at acting and made up all these incredible stories about the network of sub-spies he had working for him which, because he was like a novelist, he described in amazing detail.” Read more...
Jason Webster, Novelist
Spanish double agent Juan Pujol (codename: Garbo) was the one who managed to persuade the Germans that D-Day was actually a diversion and that the main attack would be elsewhere. “And they believed him. They had their troops elsewhere and if that had not been the case there is no way the Allies would have managed to open up the Western Front.”
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