Operation Garbo

The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II

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Nigel West spent 13 years tracking down the double agent Juan García, codenamed Garbo, before finally meeting him in 1984, after the spy had faked his own death. In this book, West tells how García became disillusioned with extremism, was initially rejected by British intelligence, then tricked the Germans into trusting him to spy in London. He supplied false intelligence, while helping the British divert Nazi troops away from the D-Day landings.

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