juan pujol garcia. codename: "garbo" the double agent who fooled the nazis throughout world war ii. on july 15, 1941, he initiated his grand plan. juan pujol garcia was a spaniard who developed a deep dislike of fascism. in the wake of the spanish civil war and when the nazis started world war ii, he made it his mission to, as he put it, "do something for the good of humanity." garcia initially contacted british and american intelligence agencies but both were uniterested in his services. so he turned to the germans. he hoped to gain the nazis' trust as a spy and then return to the allies and serve as a double-agent. garcia quickly convinced the germans that he was a pro-nazi spanish government official. he was ordered to move to britain and build a spy network but instead, garcia set up camp in lisbon and began his grand illusion. on july 15, 1941, garcia or "arabel," his germancodename sent his first phony dispatch to berlin. garcia's secret weapon was his imagination out of which he created a web of fictitious agents supposedly working for him throughout the u.k. he was so detaile

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