How One ”FAILED” Chicken Farmer Invented 27 Fake Agents And Outsmarted The Nazis

Reveal the shocking origin story of WW2's greatest double agent—a man with no training, no connections, and no experience who decided to single-handedly fight the Nazis through pure deception. In 1941, Juan Pujol García was a failed chicken farmer in Madrid who hated fascism but had no way to fight it. When British intelligence rejected his offer to spy, he refused to give up. Instead, he convinced German intelligence to hire him as their agent in Britain—despite never having set foot in the country.
This verified 9,400-word historical documentary demonstrates how one man's audacious freelance espionage operation became the foundation for D-Day's success. Operating from a Lisbon hotel room, Garbo studied British maps at the public library, memorized train schedules, and invented "intelligence reports" from tourist guidebooks. He sent the Abwehr detailed accounts of Liverpool's defenses, convoy departures from Glasgow, and military installations near Brighton—all fabricated. The Germans paid him $1,000 monthly and begged for more agents.
His amateur mistakes nearly exposed him: he reported a convoy sailing from Liverpool when the city's docks were closed, claimed Glasgow dock workers would "do anything for a litre of wine" (Scots drink whisky), and described Britons as willing to die for their rations. Yet German intelligence, desperate for any information from inside Britain, believed every word. When MI5 counterintelligence finally traced suspicious German radio traffic back to Garbo in February 1942, they discovered an amateur had been running a successful deception for eight months—without any Allied assistance.
From chicken farm to British recruitment, witness how determination and imagination proved more valuable than professional training—demonstrating that sometimes the most effective warriors are the ones nobody expects, a lesson intelligence agencies teach but rarely see in practice.

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