Agent Garbo

Archival Summary & Scope

Was D-Day saved by one man's elaborate deception? *Agent Garbo* tells the astonishing true story of Juan Pujol, a Spanish poultry farmer who became one of WWII's most audacious double agents. Determined to oppose the Nazis, Pujol—initially rejected by British intelligence—independently established himself as Germany's most valued spy. As "Garbo," he masterminded a vast, imaginary network of subagents, inventing troop movements and feeding the Third Reich a torrent of convincing falsehoods. This monumental bluff became Germany's sole trusted source of British espionage, crucially misleading the German High Command about the true location of the D-Day landings and helping secure Allied victory.