Talk:Juan Pujol (alias Garbo)

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His correct name was JOAN (in Catalan) Pujol Garcia, not JUAN (in Spanish)!!

Possibly, but you need to provide evidence. So far, all links provided refer to "Juan". I attended a lecture in 1992 by Nigel West and he referred to "Joan" throughout, but the fact that his tombstone is engraved as "Juan" and the MI5 website also refers to "Juan" tilts the argument towards that side. It would be also nice if you signed your contributions. Thanks. tonis1 18:37, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

He always was known as Juan, nothing strange given that he was born in 1912 and his mother was of Castilian origin.--Menah the Great 17:56, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trust a double agent?

I'm a bit leery of believing any of Pujol's claims. I've seen a TV doc that suggests he lied extensively to MI5, too... Trekphiler 06:25, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

You may be right but I'm not sure how much of the article is based on Pujol's claims. Most of it is based on the official secret internal MI5 report written at the time by his handler and released by the National Archives in 2000. (Harris, Tomás (2000). Garbo The Spy Who Saved D-Day. The National Archives). A fascinating book by the way. Well worth reading. Adrian Robson 10:24, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, the obvious proof that he wasn't a double-double-agent is that D-Day went ahead as planned, with little-to-no more resistance than expected. You need to check if the facts support theories. Poorsod 21:30, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Trekp, There were several of these double agetns run by the XX Committee. Several of them lied to their handlers, were barred from further communicaitons with the Germsns and so on. I've read no credible suggestion that Garcia was one of these. An a terminological point, I would suggest that Garbo was never a double agent as he seems never to have actually worked fof the Germans, having been bamboozling them from his first contact with them. He actually only became an official Gritish agetn on his second try with them, well after he was already in the German fooling business. ww 00:47, 16 November 2006 (UTC)