'Agent Garbo,' The Spy Who Lied About D-Day

I was listening to the podcast Tell Me Something I Don't Know and this man came up.

Apparently, he wanted to help the Allies during WW2 but they had no interest in making him a spy. So he approached the Germans and told them that he would spy for them. He created fake reports using the information he got from a library and the British caught wind. So he helped the British by spreading disinformation to the Germans, including information about the D-Day landing.

Really interesting stuff.

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There is a book by Ben Macintyre called Double Cross which includes Garbo and all his double agent cohorts who helped with the D-Day misinformation.....great read.

He has another one called A Spy Among Friends that is about a triple agent

One of the greatest, yet largely unheralded, achievements of the war was the ability of the British to " roll up" every Axis spy network and agent in the UK during the war. The resulting disinformation campaign was worth a few divisions , at least, and definitely shortened the war.