![]() Pujol’s fertile imagination led to the creation a fictional network of agents. So began one on the most audacious double crosses yet known. Not long after he arrived, he was using all his powers of persuasion to convince them to take him on. Pujol really wanted to work for MI5, and so he engineered a way of getting to the UK. His intelligent reports were eagerly received by them, and as the transcripts were read at Bletchley Park, they were equally worried by them. With the rise of Germany in Europe, he slowly worked his way into the trust of the Nazi’s as a spy providing intelligence and information. He was involved in the Spanish civil war, avoiding serious action, but somehow managing to switch sides. Pujol was a Spanish man, who disliked totalitarianism. However, he did have a real name, and a wife and children, and it is claimed that he is the one of the greatest double agents that we know of but just who was Juan Pujol? Garbo, Alaric, Rags, Mrs Gerbers and Stanley have two things in common they were all false, and they were all one man. Meticulously researched, yet told with the verve of a thriller, The Spy with 29 Names uncovers the truth – far stranger than any fiction – about the spy behind one of recent history’s most important and dramatic events. ![]() Above all, in Operation Fortitude he diverted German Panzer divisions away from Normandy, playing a crucial role in safeguarding D-Day and ending the war, and securing his reputation as the most successful double agent of the war. ![]() Working for the British, whom he saw as the exemplars of freedom and democracy, he created a bizarre fictional network of spies – 29 of them – that misled the entire German high command, including Hitler himself. He tells of Pujol’s early life in Spain, his determination to fight totalitarianism and his strange journey from German spy to MI5. Using his intimate knowledge of Spain and his skills as a crime novelist, Jason Webster tells for the first time the full true story of the character who captured the imagination in Ben Macintyre’s Double Cross. He was the greatest double agent in history. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist – and 24 other names. ![]() He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War.
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