Documentary opens in Palma in English this week – article written by By Humphrey Carter, in the Majorca Bulletin 21st April 2010…

 
A new documentary about the flamboyant Spanish double agent who duped Hitler in a British secret service plot which ensured the success of the Normandy landings.

Joan Pujol García, who was awarded the MBE for his efforts, was known by the British codename Garbo and the German codename Arabel.
He had a key role in the success of Operation Fortitude, the deception operation intended to mislead the Germans about the timing and location of the invasion of Normandy towards the end of World War II.

The false information Pujol supplied helped persuade German intelligence the main attack would come in the Pas de Calais, resulting in a decision to withhold troops from the area around the Normandy beachhead. The son of an…. READ MORE

………….   His MI5 case officer was a Spanish-speaking intelligence officer Tomas Harris who is buried here in Majorca where he died in a car crash in 1964.
Garbo’s information to the Germans included fictitious tales throughout the war….. READ MORE
Extract from the MAJORCA Daily Bulletin – 21st April 2010

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Garbo – The Spy, Film by

Garbo – Known by the Germans as Arabel, and by the British as Garbo, the Spaniar was one of Britains most successful double agents in history, responsible for perpetrating the greatest fraud of the Second World War and helping make possible the D-Day landings… The film/documentary will be showing at the International film Festival in San Francisco in May

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