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fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII

Juan Pujol García, a Barcelona chicken farmer, became WWII's most important double agent by creating a fictional spy persona loyal to Nazi Germany while actually serving the Allies, receiving over $6 million in payments for fabricated intelligence.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
8 months ago

UK launched huge operation to find suspected Russian double agent in MI6

Britain's spy agencies launched Operation Wedlock to investigate a potential double agent at MI6, which was a significant concern since the Cold War.
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