How Do You Fool the Nazis with Fake Spies? The Agent Garbo Story

What if the most effective spy network of World War II never existed? Meet Agent Garbo—the codename for Juan Pujol García, a Spanish double agent who, with little more than imagination, maps, and sheer audacity, created a fictional network of 27 sub-agents. His "reports" from this phantom army convinced German High Command that the D-Day landings were a feint, holding Panzer divisions away from Normandy and saving thousands of lives.

This documentary uncovers the greatest deception operation of the war. We trace Garbo's journey from a Barcelona poultry farmer to Britain's most valuable double agent, explore the intricate details of his fabricated spy ring, and reveal how his final, perfectly-timed message on June 9, 1944, cemented the lie that won the campaign. This is the story of how fiction, wielded with precision, changed the course of reality.
Sources / Further Reading:

"Garbo: The Spy Who Saved D-Day" by Mark Seaman

"Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Double Agent of World War II" by Juan Pujol & Nigel West

National Archives (UK) documents on the Double-Cross System.

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