Espionage In Ww2 Research Paper

Drake Byers
Mr. Kohler
La2
April 20, 2016 Espionage and the act of spying Espionage is WWII was a factor that is commonly overlooked by the masses. Knowing how espionage was used will change the general thought on warfare during WWII. Espionage in WWII was the sole saver of D-Day and in the spies eyes the winning factor of the war. Spies during this time uncovered secrets of enemy nations as-well-as protected secrets of the nation they were backed by just as Juan Pujol Garcia did with the invasion of Normandy. Britain during this time of war had picked up a number of spies that Germany thought were in there own back pocket. The relatively unknown story of espionage in WWII is a huge event in the winning of the war it in many ways

That very well may have saved the war in a few ways by being a skillful double agent. Agent Garbo or better known as Joan pujol Garcia was the almost famous double agent that lied about the D-day invasion this colossal lie protected the D-day invasion from being uncovered. This lie earned agent Garbo two distinctive honors from both of his spy organizations MI5 and the Abwehr. From his original agency in Germany he was awarded the iron cross for his work as an agent. He also was given the medal the order of the British Empire a prestigious honor. Garbo was such a good agent that Germany throughout the war had no idea of him being turned into a double agent. These medals were two very distinct honors given by both sides of the war. The iron cross he had received was usually reserved for front line

Agent Garbo had heard the Germans expressing their worries of an attack on the western front. This kept the Germans on edge and they wanted information. Who better to give them information than Garbo? The Germans had suspicions of D-day or operation overlord. They asked Garbo to keep them informed of the information passing by him. Garbo sent close to 500 messages to the Germans between the year of 1944 and D-day. Garbo continued to feed the Germans high command false information and to mislead them. He was misleading them with fake tanks and planes producing fake garbage chatter to throw off their radio operators. All of this fake information was just enough to throw off the Germans. Garbo led the Germans to believe that in invasion was to be elsewhere in