Agent Garbo - Stephan Talty
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- Juan Pujol was the Walter Mitty of World War II, a nobody who at one doomed venture after another while dreaming of doing something interesting with his life -- saving Western civilization, if possible.Journalist Stephan Talty, whose work has appeared widely, including in the New York Times Magazine and GQ, has told the remarkable story of how against all the odds, Pujol did just that by becoming agent GARBO, the most important double agent of World War II.Hear Talty discuss his new book with SPY Historian Mark Stout in this author debriefing which took place on 12 July 2012.
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For me, Garbo's greatest achievement was not any one operation, but creating a huge network of imaginary spies. He had backstories for each of them, with detailed notes on their motivations and the kinds of information they could get. He flooded the Abwehr with so many reports that they eventually assumed they couldn't _all_ be bogus or suspect, could they?
And then his Crowning Moment of Awesome. The Abwehr decided that, with such an amazing spy network in Great Britain, they had no need to place any more agents in the U.K. at all. With him in place, sending anyone else would be a waste of badly needed manpower. If not for that man, the Nazis would certainly have had real agents, really working in the U.K. The cumulative effect on the Allied war effort would have been incalculable.
I heard that he was the inspiration for the main character in Graham Greene's novel, Our Man in Havana. Which novel in some way inspired Le Carre's novel. The Tailor of Panama.
Im in the middle of the book and I find it so amazing! Agent Garbo is such an excellent dude! Major Props to Stephen Talty for writing this book, it's sensational! What a work of faith Agent Garbo is! He proved one can save the entire world by being James Bond! The bad guys an always be defeated! The world can always be saved!
Europa dejo abandona a España despues de nuestra guerra civil,pero un simple ciudadano Catalan -Español hizo mucho mas por la libertad de esa Europa que nos abandono durante cuarenta años con el Facismo de Franco.Muchas gracias Juan Puyol ,DIOS LE TIENE EN LA GLORIA.
Thank you for this very interesting video.
Juan Pujol, from being "the joke", to becoming a very successful double agent and saving a lot of lives from the V2-rockets in London! What a man!
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Could it be that, after all his contributions & all the sacrifices he made, and being rewarded by both sides, he still ended up financially broke?
He had the germans eating from his hand well before the british even knew who he was....You are missing the fact he invented all the spy network well before the Mi5 "hired" him....He was a self made agent. You are missing one of the most crazy and genius things she did, which was going to the german embassy saying his husband had disapeared, where the germans told her that he was in london doing a mission.. all this while both of them were actually in lisbon, this was even before the british had contacted him..... he literally made his own crusade against the nazi by himself...
I saw the dvd of agent garbo and I love it!!, now I need to read the book
Juan Puyol, the most impressive character in "murky waters" of WW II.
Please, don't count this as sacrilegious, but in a way he "looks like" a Biblical persona:- Daniel in the lions den, Joseph in Egypt,.......
The double cross committee were house in Room 20 roman numerals, xx hence double cross
Somebody needs to get in touch with clint eastwood or oliver stone so a movie can be made.It would be a great movie.
Ugh an American director with overbearing political views directing a film about a Spaniard who dupes the Germans while living in Britain, no thanks. The history is so amazing it is far too good to be ruined by Hollywood
There is a film already made about this incredible guy. 😎
@@muttleycrew yeah, I agree. And would have probably starred Tom Hanks.
Thanks for the analysis. What's up @3:40 when you say his only skill set was his imagination? Is that a super hero power refence? I guess he was a very fast learner after that! HE WAS THE BEST! Thank you for the video.
Are there any episodes on spies in ancient Greece or Rome, or ancient Egypt? Thanks
Time Friday night 23:17 hours coming up on anniversary of D day in the year 2021
Sir Juan
I believe that a few days after D-Day, he sent them a story that he was arrested, and was unable to deliver the message that the Normandy one was real.
He actually sent the message just few hours before the landing happened, when he was sure most would be sleeping and it didnt matter anymore.. such a legend.
where is agent garbo grave site so I can pay my respect? does any one Know??
Choriní, Venezuela. The mi5 fake his death in Angola and relocated him there.
I bought the book and the book said on October 10, 1988 Juan Pujol died after suffering a stroke he was buried in Choroni , next to his daughter , in
Venezuela Henri Pittier National park
not Venezuela is spaniard
Yes Venezuela. He lived there (after he faked his death from malaria in Angola) until his death. After the war he feared reprisals from surviving Nazis and needed to get out of Europe. However, the Germans were so stupid, they never figured out Pujol was a double agent and even awarded him the Iron Cross. Check out the Wikipedia write-up on Pujol or Nigel West’s book.
Worked for Shell oil in Venezuela until retirement and lived there untul his passing.
Garbo was never a spy. Pujol was involved in providing misinformation fed by British M5, but never spied in the classical term.
He was a double agent, that’s definitely a spy.
Muttley: If you wish to glorify Pujol, be my guest. It’s a free country after all. But, I can’t change my opinion of him. My hero is Virginia Hall; A woman with a wooden leg and balls of steel. Research her story, and stand in awe at what a real spy is.
He actually created most of his "missinformation" himself....he created a huge fake network of spies before the british even "hired" him...It was only after he had fooled the germans totally and the british have intercepted many of his fake messages that they realized someone was feeding missinformation to the germans.. He is the greastest spy of all time. He was so convincing that the germans didnt even bother sending their own spies to england because his network was "massive"... a network he had made up from his ass with even back stories for every fake agent. The british noticed him when realized the germans were looking for a convoy that was heading to malta that never existed, it is when they realized what this man was doing , alone.. if that is not being an spy.....
How about Nancy Wake( the white mouse). You can have more than one hero, fact is he totally disrupted his life , he could of completely stayed out of the war. He played a important roll in the war and more than likely saved thousands of lives and in today’s numbers got over a million dollars from the German. When he was at the cemetery at Normandy he lamented he should of done more. Why not praise all who worked to shorten the war.
@@Trikipum Nah....! Don’t buy it.
The author could improve his communication skills if he dropped the use of the word "absolutely" when he means to say yes. This is a typical American bad habit of the generation born in 1960s.
Also the generational bad habit of saying “kind of” in front of everything. And mispronouncing Araceli; the wife was Spanish, not Italian.