Juan Pujol García
PersonWorld War II
Spanish double agent in World War II deception
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Juan Pujol García
- World War II
Juan Pujol García was a Spanish spy who served the United Kingdom as a double agent against Nazi Germany during World War II. Known to the British as Garbo and to the Germans as Alaric, he built a fictitious network of 27 agents. His false reports supported Operation Fortitude, helping mislead German forces about the Normandy invasion. He received the Iron Cross and was later made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
- British codename
- Garbo
- German codename
- Alaric
- Role
- Double agent for the United Kingdom against Nazi Germany
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Juan Pujol García (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q403394
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
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