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To: Selectric II who wrote (1231)	9/24/2001 12:08:02 PM
From: H-Man	Respond to of 281500

I don't know. Mr. Garcia had died sometime earlier, so It was not to protect him. I suspect that bits and pieces had leaked over the years, but it is an interesting question. UK double agent ``Garbo'' fooled Nazis over D-Day 07:32 p.m Jan 26, 1999 Eastern By Michael Steen LONDON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A British double agent codenamed ``Garbo'' hoodwinked Nazi Germany about the place from which World War Two Allied forces would launch their D-Day attack on occupied France, secret papers released on Wednesday showed. The 55-year-old declassified papers showed how the agent, a member of Britain's MI5 intelligence service, fed German secret services false information ahead of the decisive D-Day landings in northern France in 1944. ``The object of this plan was to induce in the German General Staff the belief that the invasion of Normandy was a diversionary move,'' an MI5 report said. Reports of non-existent Allied divisions massing in Britain also led the Germans to overestimate the strength of allied forces by more than 50 percent, the documents revealed. The Spanish-born Garbo, whose real name was Juan Pujol Garcia, was named by MI5 after Hollywood legend Greta Garbo because of his acting skills. He dreamt up a fictitious ring of spies, who he led the Nazis to believe were well-connected informants working for him. ``Garbo was described as working with passionate and quixotic zeal for many hours a day to produce voluminous reports from a network of imaginary or 'notional' agents,'' MI5 said. Garbo's dispatches blended fiction with enough facts for the Germans to regard his intelligence as authentic and of high quality, the files reported. In the run-up to D-Day Garbo even told the Germans an Allied attack on Norway was likely. The Germans however were not convinced, but the other part of the disinformation scheme, nicknamed ``Fortitude,'' succeeded by wrongly reporting troop positions in Britain, so Germany thought the weight of an allied attack on France would come in the northern region of the Pas de Calais. Instead, the allies attacked further south. MI5 recruited Garbo after he proved himself by sending the German agents false British intelligence from Spain, which he collated from railway timetables, newsreel films and readily available published material. He wanted to become a double agent because he believed General Franco's Fascist regime in Spain would fall if the Allies won the war. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.