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Tricksters for good, man. Awesome.

Also, during the time when he was reporting to the Nazis, he never actually set foot in England.  He was ordered to move to England, but moved to Lisbon instead where he used tourist guides to England, magazines, and train schedules to manufacture intelligence reports on places he had never been or seen. They looked so convincing that when British analysts later studied the messages, they refused to believe that Pujol had never set foot in England.

Throughout his early career as a spy, Pujol was one phone call or one background check away from being executed. He lived by the slimmest of margins. “It seemed a miracle that he’d survived so long,” said his MI5 handler later on. Pujol agreed. “It was crazy. I had no idea what I was doing.” There is a documentary on him called “Garbo The Spy”, and it is REALLY awesome.

I just imagine this guy saying, “thanks for the 27 salaries, Nazis”

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