Reich Agent
Born in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bPujol developed a deep antipathy to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union after his experiences of fascism and communism in Catalonia after the civil war. Around 1940, decided that he should contribute to helping end the war in Britain, the only opponent of Germany at that time.
Araceli Gonzalez then turned to the British embassy in Madrid, where he provided services her husband as a spy. After being rejected offered his services to the Third Reich intended to serve as a double spy for the Allies. Once accepted by the Germans established a network of spies false and did odd jobs for them, such as retransmit radio codes ... and again offered his services to MI5, and this time accepted, and that British intelligence had monitored his footsteps and knew his situation (though he never came to know).
Although initially operated from Lisbon, the Germans pretending to be in Britain. Inventing fictitious reports on the movements of merchant ships, successfully convincing that were really valuable data, thanks to information obtained in the library of Lisbon and film news. Pretended to travel around Britain and sent parts of expenditure, as the prices obtained from a British railway guide. At first spent some trouble by not properly understand the British system of pre-decimal currency (pounds, shillings and pence) but solved their problems by sending the parts cost for expenses, and arguing that it would send the total later.
Double Agent came to England in the spring of 1942 and operated as a double agent under the auspices of the Committee XX (Double Cross System) an initiative of the British Intelligence based on the capture of German agents and their subsequent conversion into double agents to work or to counter enemy disinformation maneuver. His main job was to convince the Germans who had managed to recruit a large number of agents in Britain, some very influential people and valuable information. The difficulty of his work was that at all times should produce consistent reports of all agents was invented and not contradict each other, without losing credibility.
sometimes had to invent reasons to explain why the Abwehr one of his officers had been unable to report on an operation that would sooner or later German and ears not to discover it was all a farce. He once said that one of their agents in Liverpool had fallen ill just before a big move fleet from the port to the west coast of England. Allegedly falling ill, it was impossible for the spy transmit that information. To emphasize his inspirational story, even had to fake the death of the agent and even a false obituary was published in a local newspaper. Thus, the Germans believed her story and even paid a pension to the widow of the dead agent.
Pujol
The information sent to the Germans was invented by his British superior and included a large proportion of true events so that reports would be more convincing. Sometimes the desired effect was achieved by sending information genuine but delaying their arrival before the damage was minimal. To do so is sometimes resorted to a letter postmarked with a date before, but not sent until the eve of the movement of troops in question when it came to seem a delay of postal service. Garbo The Germans were paying big money to keep its network of agents, which at one point reached 27 characters have fictitious. Garbo enjoyed enough credibility with his superiors (both one side and the other), which led him to acquire the status of "A1 Agent."
more of this super-spy.
Your name: Juan Pujol Garcia (GARBO)
His wife, Araceli Gonzalez Carballo.
Garbo has the honor of being the first and one of the few people awarded medals by both sides: the German Iron Cross and the Order of British Empire.
If you want to know more is a documentary film (Garbo, the man who saved the world)
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_ (Garbo )
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