Chapter 2860: The End of France (30)

Just as Churchill sighed and wrote a letter to Roosevelt for help, Reinhard walked into Yannick's office in the Berlin Palace.

"Your Highness, the person you want to see is here."

Following him was a short bald man with a funny look.

Yannick greeted him enthusiastically and held out his hand. "Mr. Garcia, I've been waiting for a long time."

Garcia held out his hand with fear and trepidation, and said a little at a loss. "Your Highness, I'm just an ordinary civilian. I don't know if Your Highness..." He was really an ordinary Spanish citizen. This morning, a group of strangers broke into his house and took him to the car, the plane, and brought him here without saying anything.

Yannick smiled slightly. "Mr. Garcia, I have a job here, I think you will be very interested. The salary is generous, and the monthly salary exceeds your current annual income."

Although Garcia was still confused, he couldn't resist the temptation of money and asked curiously. "What is the job?"

Yannick picked up a newspaper from the desk and handed it to Garcia. "Mr. Garcia, this is this morning's Deutsche Morgenpost. What military intelligence can you find out from this newspaper?"

"Ah?!" Garcia was even more confused after hearing this. "What military intelligence?" He is not an intelligence officer, what military intelligence can he find out?

Yannick's face suddenly became serious. "Mr. Garcia, I don't have time to chat with you. I'll give you five minutes. If you can't find anything, then you can only spend the rest of your life in prison. Now the countdown starts!"

"!!" Garcia was stunned for a long time with his mouth open, and suddenly recovered and hurriedly opened the newspaper, crying out in his heart, who did he offend? How could he get into jail when he was living a good life? !

He nervously read the entire newspaper carefully several times, and finally spoke tremblingly. "General Guderian will attack Gaiyu tonight. Railway Line 321 is transporting a large number of military supplies. A group of senior military officials will gather at the German Hotel tonight." After saying this, he looked at Yannick's reaction tremblingly, and the sweat on his face poured out like money.

Yannick noticed a flash of surprise on Reinhard's face and clapped his hands. "Not bad, it seems that Mr. Garcia should be able to do this job."

Garcia breathed a sigh of relief and almost collapsed to the ground. It seems that he doesn't have to go to jail? He asked cautiously. "Your Highness, can I go back then?" This day is really inexplicable.

Yannick shook his head. "Didn't I say there is a job? You have passed the interview and start working now. Reinhard, the Intelligence Department has added a department called the 'General Administration of Strategic Deception and Camouflage', which will be in charge of this Mr. Garcia." "General Administration of Strategic Deception and Camouflage" is simply the Strategic Propaganda Bureau.

And the full name of this Garcia is Juan Garcia Garcia, a legendary spy during World War II.

How legendary is it?

During World War II, he served as a double agent for the warring countries of Britain and Germany: on the British side, his code name was Garbo, and on the German side, his code name was Arabel. Throughout the Second World War, Garcia was one of the very few people who were awarded medals in both warring countries, and he might even be the only one. He received the Order of the British Empire from the British side and the Iron Cross from the German side.

He was born on February 14, 1912 in Catalonia, Spain, which is now the Catalonia that makes trouble every day and uses fireworks as submachine guns. His father was the owner of a dye factory, and his mother was a devout Catholic. This man was very noisy and didn't behave well in school, but he had a good family background and could make trouble.

At the age of 16, Garcia stopped going to school because of a quarrel with his school teacher, and instead started working as an apprentice in a hardware store. But this is not a person who can stay idle. He started to try to start his own business and occasionally wrote novels to add some color to his life.

Maybe he felt that his life was not exciting enough, and just as World War II broke out, he decided to become a spy.

So he found British government personnel in Spain three times and explained his intentions. But Garcia did not have any espionage skills, so it was difficult for the suspicious British to determine whether the fanatical Spaniard in front of him was a madman or a fool. In the end, the British gave a very straightforward answer-get out.

This time Garcia was angry, thinking that you look down on me, right? Then I will "defect" to the Germans. So he came to the German Embassy and made up a set of reasons to fool the Germans.

Obviously, the Germans are much easier to contact than the British, and they were very happy when they learned about this. Garcia was trained in a series of ways, and was given a bottle of invisible ink, a code book and initial activity funds, so that he could go to Britain to recruit spies to establish an intelligence network.

Garcia set off, but he did not go to London at all, but to Lisbon, Portugal. He collected information from some public publications, summarized and sorted it out, and obtained intelligence after analysis and judgment. Although this information was fictitious, it was highly credible. The information he based it on was a British train timetable, a British travel guide, reference books in the public library, newspapers and magazines, and newsreels he saw in the cinema.

When Garcia found out from the train schedule that transportation on a certain railway became busy, he speculated that this line might be transporting military supplies. Combining maps and travel guides, he determined where these supplies were transported. The news film publicly reported where there was war, and its content could confirm his inference, so an "important intelligence" was produced.

During this period, Garcia built a spy network consisting of 28 fictional spies based on his imagination.

These people have different identities and rich experiences. There are Wells's Aryan supremacists, often drunken British Royal Air Force officers, linguists, and indignant retired soldiers. The only thing these people have in common is that they are all fictional and played by Garcia alone. In order to confuse the Germans, Garcia occasionally fabricated some news that his intelligence officers could not provide intelligence. For example, he described a Liverpool intelligence officer who died of illness while collecting fleet intelligence. In order to confirm this news, he published an obituary in the local newspaper. The Germans sent him a pension for him to transfer to the intelligence officer's widow.

At this time, the British realized that someone was continuously providing intelligence to the Germans. Earlier, they had intercepted several pieces of intelligence from Garcia, which were intercepted by the British Bletchley Park through radio detection. Because of its high authenticity, the British counter-espionage organization MI5 noticed Garcia and launched a large-scale arrest operation against Garcia and Garcia's spy group. However, this person was not in the UK, but far away in Portugal, so MI5 could not find him no matter how hard they tried.

Just when they were having a headache, Garcia took the initiative to contact Demorist, an American diplomat in Portugal. Demorist believed that Garcia had a talent for espionage and his ability would help the intelligence work of the Allies, so he recommended him to the British.

When the two sides met, the British were shocked: Isn't this guy who provided intelligence to Germany the madman who was rejected three times by them?

Moreover, the British were surprised to find that when Garcia fabricated a British escort fleet, Germany sent a large number of submarines and aircraft to search and attack this non-existent fleet. As a result, the British really saw the value of Garcia and took him into MI5 to become a double agent.

In view of his outstanding acting skills, the British used the name of American movie star Garbo as his code name.

Later, during the Allied landing in North Africa at the end of 1942, Garcia sent intelligence that the Allies had mobilized a fleet including troop transports and warships, and painted with camouflage colors characteristic of the Mediterranean. This intelligence was very valuable, but when the intelligence reached the German intelligence agency, the landing battle had already begun. Garcia was told, "We are sorry that the intelligence came too late, but your report is very good!" The Germans expressed special affirmation to him.

In 1943, the German intelligence agency decided to upgrade the level and establish direct radio contact with Garcia between Madrid and Britain.

In January 1944, the Germans told Garcia that the Allies were preparing for a large-scale landing operation on the European continent and expected him to keep an eye on the relevant developments. The Germans' judgment was accurate. The United States and Britain were indeed preparing to implement the Normandy landing operation. However, what the Germans did not know was that this landing operation also included a big intelligence scam, and Garcia was an important part of it. From January 1944 to the days and nights of the Normandy landing operation, more than 500 pieces of intelligence were forwarded directly from Garcia to Berlin via Madrid almost four times a day.

In this carefully arranged big scam, Garcia was given the task of "convincing" the Germans that the landing site was somewhere else, one of which was Calais. Garcia lived up to expectations, and his intelligence even made Hitler later believe that the Allies were most likely to land in Calais. The Allied plan was more than that. In order to delay the German counterattack, the Allies also hoped that Garcia would convince the Germans that even if the Allies landed in Normandy, it would be a feint.

On June 5, the day before the landing operation, Garcia informed Germany that he had an urgent intelligence that would be sent at 3 a.m. on June 6, and the content was that all signs indicated that the Allied landing force was about to leave Normandy. Unfortunately, the German intelligence officer forgot to receive this intelligence, and received it only after the landing operation began, which gave Garcia extra trust. Garcia also pretended to be angry and vented his anger to the Germans: "I don't accept any apologies or excuses. If it weren't for my ideals, I would have refused this job long ago!" In fact, even if the German side received this intelligence in time, it would be too late.

On June 9, the fourth day after the Normandy landing, Garcia sent another key intelligence. The intelligence was very long, reporting the content of his meeting with his intelligence officers and requiring the intelligence to be handed directly to the German supreme commander. This intelligence pointed out that the purpose of the Allied Normandy landing was to contain the success of the upcoming Calais landing. Perhaps based on previous judgments, or perhaps because of his excessive trust in Garcia, Hitler approved this suggestion. As a result, during the critical period of the Normandy Campaign, the German army had been deploying heavy troops in Calais. Some historians say that if the German army could have divided its troops to provide assistance at that time, the Allied forces fighting hard in Normandy would have suffered heavy casualties and might even have been defeated, and World War II would have been prolonged.

Ironically, Garcia's reputation among the Germans was further enhanced throughout the Normandy Landing. On July 29, 1944, he was very unexpectedly notified that the Germans had awarded him the Iron Cross for his outstanding contributions and called him a particularly rare person who deserved this honor. Garcia replied humbly and sincerely that his work was indeed unworthy of this title. In fact, almost at the same time, the British secretly awarded him the Order of the British Empire.

After the Normandy Landing, Germany was defeated and Garcia found it difficult to continue sending false information without arousing suspicion. So, under the arrangement of his superior Mills, Garcia was "discovered and arrested" by the British. Garcia also made a public statement admitting that he was a German spy and pleaded guilty to his illegal behavior. After Garcia was arrested, the Germans felt that they had suffered a huge loss and deliberately transferred $340,000 to continue to support the so-called intelligence network established by Garcia.

After the war, Garcia first went to the United States, then traveled to Latin American countries such as Cuba and Mexico, and finally chose to settle in Venezuela, where he died in 1988.