Garbo - Great Britain

This is a reproduction of the MI5 file on Juan Maria Pujol, the Spanish double-agent known as Garbo. Garbo fed German military intelligence with false information about the Normandy landings, leading them to believe that the attack was a diversionary one, with the real one taking place at Calais.;The book tells the story of Agent Garbo and his pivotal role in Operation Fortitude, as written by Tomas Harris, Garbo's MI5 case officer. Harris' narrative was kept secret for over four decades and tells the astonishing story of one unknown man who influenced the outcome of World War II as much as many famous generals and politicians. Garbo and his network of fictional agents fed the Nazis with misinformation from the day he walked into the German emabassy in Madrid in 1941, right up until the end of the war. Not only did the Germans never discover his true identity, but they also heaped praise on Pujol, even awarding him the Iron Cross in 1944, making him the only man in history to receive that honour as well as the MBE.