Peter Duffy Reviews Stephan Talty's . Join The New Republic for $3. In October 1. 94.
- Although Double Agent looks very impressive in spots, it still looks a lot like what you've seen in the past from Splinter Cell. What immediately stood out.
- Spy: How a Double Agent Won D-Day for. As Hitler’s armed forces began their march across Europe in late 1939.
- Start by marking “The Double-Cross System The Incredible True Story of How Nazi Spies Were Turned into Double Agents” as Want to Read.
British cryptanalysts intercepted Nazi messages referring to a convoy of five British vessels forming in the bay of Caernarvon. If someone was sending fake intelligence to the Germans, the British wanted a part of it. Smuggled out of Lisbon on a British merchant ship and jetted from Gibraltar to England, Pujol became the star of the Double Cross Committee, the interagency organization that used double agents under British control and code- breaking efforts to communicate misinformation to the Nazi regime. Under the guiding hand of Tom. Equipped with a wireless radio to send encrypted messages to Madrid, Pujol was instrumental in the effort to convince Hitler that an Allied force was considering a strike on Nazi- controlled Norway in late 1. Allies to invade North Africa against a smaller German force than they might have otherwise faced on November 8, 1. By January 1. 94.
Pujol, Harris, and their team of fictional agents had joined a massive deception campaign. Pujol sent hundreds of messages supporting this deception in the six months leading up to June 6, 1. Allies successfully landed 1. Normandy coast. But Pujol.
It was his role in keeping it there. On June 9, just after Hitler assented to a request from one of his generals to send reinforcements from Pas de Calais to Normandy, Pujol delivered his most important message of the war to Berlin. He told the German command that it was . Before he committed suicide in October 1. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel called it a . He was that good. But he was only as good as the messages that Harris and the Double Cross Committee were crafting under his name.
This is the implicit message of Ben Macintyre. Talty notes that Pujol (who faked his death with MI5 help after the war because of fears about Nazi vengeance and was rediscovered in Venezuela four years before his actual death in 1. Tommy Harris wrote that Pujol . Talty accepts without challenge Pujol. He was getting at something significant about the nature of the double agent.
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