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Juan Pujol Garcia And The Spanish Civil War

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Juan Pujol García is a real life spy that served in the the Spanish Civil War, was an ex-chicken farmer, manager of a one star hotel and served in World War Two. Juan Pujol García was born in Barcelona, Spain and was raised in a politically-liberal household. He deliberately became a double agent during the Second World War for the British, who was known as Agent Garbo and for the Germans, who was known as Agent Arabel. However he was committed to the British Empire and had a quiet personal life after the second World War. Even though one of the main highlights of his life was in World War Two, what makes his story amazing is he had virtually nothing before the World War. He only started to serve in the war on October, 1941 (when he was …show more content…

As mentioned before, he was an anti-Nazi. So as he hated the Nazi’s, he thought he could volunteer himself to the British. He wanted to become a British Spy. He attempted to pursue this by going to the British Embassy in January, 1941. He said that he wants to offer his service to the British Empire, but he was laughed at. They didn’t know anything about him and he had nothing. No qualifications. A poor earning job. Nothing that made him useful to them. But the British later accepted him and wanted him to become a double agent. This meant that they wanted to leak non useful, or fake information in and leak useful information about the Nazi’s plans out to the Allies. But however there was a big problem, they didn’t know if they could trust him. To them, he was a nobody. He didn’t even have the correct visa that allowed him into Britain, (which meant it was foreign visa). So the British recommended that in order to be more useful to them, he had to join as a German Agent first. So he started as an German Agent that was in the Allies favour in October, 1941. From October, 1941; he started to supply the Abwehr (who were German Intelligence), with in-depth reports about the Allies. His reports were described as “chicken feed”. This meant that he supplied them with worthless but real information that Britain could let German Intelligence know. Some of these reports on Britain where found by Garbo

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