Pujol was the point of the spear in getting that information across to Hitler. Normandy would be presented as a feint, you know, provocative first move to get the Germans to attack it, while the real invasion was going to come up the coast at Calais. "He was creating a million-man army called FUSAG, which was going to be sort of the alternative to the real one that landed at Normandy. So the ration of true to false declined over time and at the end he was giving them 100 percent fantasies. And slowly, over time, they begin to mix that chicken feet with imaginary information they wanted Germans to believe. These were nonessential facts the British felt that they could pass on. Increasing confidence in himself and giving what he considers chicken feed - little bits of military information that, at the beginning, were completely true. he's just reporting movements of different battalions in England. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. After years of suffering and doubt, Agent Garbo felt he was ready to match wits with the best of minds of the Third Reich."Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Agent Garbo Subtitle The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day Author Stephan Talty
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One of the best adaptation of a spy novel. Furie Stars: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd Votes: 15,909 Harry Palmer movies. "But in one specialized area of war, the espionage subworld known as the double-cross game, the young man was a kind of savant, and he knew it. In London, a counterespionage agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. His marriage was falling apart," Talty says. "Pujol had failed in almost everything he'd tried in his 32 years: student, businessman, cinema magnate, soldier. "In 1941, he had about as much chance of being a master spy as you and I have of winning the Olympic decathlon this year."
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"Pujol was the Walter Mitty of the war," a very imaginative daydreamer, Talty tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz. He was a double agent for the British, performing so well that they nicknamed him for the enigmatic actress Greta Garbo.Īuthor Stephan Talty tells the story of this unlikely hero in a new book called Agent Garbo: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day. Juan Pujol Garcia lived a lie that helped win World War II.