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fromOpen Culture
1 month 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
10 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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