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«——[·Preface·] ——»
In most people's perception, a successful spy usually has strong information collection and comparative analysis capabilities.
But during World War II, there was a spy named Juan Garcia, who had neither rigorous training nor strong connections.
With his own nonsense, he can guess the intelligence and become a "rare talent" in the eyes of the high-level.
So, how did Juan do all this?
«——[.Unfortunate Encounters.]——»
Juan García was born in Spain in 1912 to a wealthy family.
The parents, who were busy with the family business, were very laissez-faire to Juan, and they also turned a blind eye to Juan's various bad habits every day.
In this extremely indulgent environment, Juan naturally has no intention of studying, but is addicted to all kinds of novels, especially detective novels.
Doted on by his parents, Juan's carefree life lasted until he was 18 years old.
In 1930, Juan's father died, and conditions in the family plummeted. Juan was forced to grow up and begin to take on the burden of supporting his family.
But this young master, who has been pampered since childhood, was dealt a heavy blow by reality when he first entered society.
Juan, who has never studied seriously and has no skills, has wasted his physical and mental strength, and any boss can only shake his head when he sees it, indicating that he does not have a suitable position.
After hanging out for half a year, Juan finally found a temporary job, although the salary was not high, and he could supplement the family.
For the next few years, Juan had no regular job, changing jobs every few weeks.
At that time, the European continent was not very peaceful, and Spain was full of contradictions, and it was in this context that the Spanish Civil War broke out.
Although it is called a civil war, in fact, behind this war is controlled by two foreign forces.
The warring sides were the Soviet-backed Republican Army and the German-backed Nationalist Army.
In this war, Juan not only lost another job, but more importantly, he was raided!
Due to Juan's parents' previous status as businessmen, even if their family is now in the middle, they are still characterized as big capitalists, and the few assets in the family have been completely confiscated by the Republican Army.
Later, Juan's mother and sister were also imprisoned as the capitalist's wife.
Juan happened to be away from home when his mother and sister were arrested, and he escaped.
After that, Juan went into hiding and lost 40 pounds in a year.
It stands to reason that with such an experience, Juan should have hated the Republican army, but why did he later target the German army everywhere and bent on revenge?
The answer is simple, because Juan joined the National Army.
Juan, who had had enough of living in hiding, found a group of nationalists and told them about his home raids.
But the Nationalists obviously did not believe it like this, and in order to confirm that Juan was not a traitor sent by the Republican Army, the Nationalists tortured Juan and starved him for several days.
It was not until Juan was dying that the National Army reluctantly accepted Juan.
But even so, Juan's life was difficult, doing the most dangerous work and eating the worst food until the end of the Spanish Civil War.
In this way, Juan hated the National Army and firmly believed that the German fascists and Hitler behind it were not good things!
«——[·Start a spy career.]——»
After the outbreak of World War II, watching fascism rampant on the European continent, memories of the past flooded his mind, and Juan decided that he wanted to do something for the anti-fascism.
In Europe at that time, Juan's Spain had long been secretly complicit with Germany, France surrendered early, and Britain was the remaining powerhouse who had been fighting back against Germany.
So, one day in 1941, Juan went to the British Embassy in Madrid, identified himself, and asked him to go undercover in Germany to provide intelligence to Britain.
However, in the face of this inconspicuous man in front of him, the staff had no undercover experience and no special connections, and they really did not see any spy potential, so they sent Juan with a sentence of "thank you, go back and wait for the notice".
After that, Juan went to the embassy three more times to self-nominate, and the result was the same as the first time.
Since he could not spy for the British, Juan decided to go to the Germans!
However, Juan is not "abandoning the light and turning to the dark", but intends to save the country.
In Juan's vision, if he can successfully enter the German intelligence system, he may still be able to make them a little bad, and maybe he can use this work experience to join the British in the future.
To this end, Juan bought a copy of Mein Kampf in an attempt to disguise himself as an avid follower of Hitler.
Juan's approach proved to be very effective.
At first, the head of the German embassy also shrugged off Juan's rhetoric.
But later, seeing that Juan was so familiar with Mein Kampf and admired Hitler himself, he agreed to Juan's joining.
After all, how the competence of the man in front of him was put aside first, but his loyalty to the German fascists was beyond doubt. If you can't make a contribution, at least you can't make a mistake.
However, Juan's subsequent behavior was a resounding slap in the face of the embassy director.
Juan not only "made great achievements", but also made the "unforgivable" position mistake.
«——[·Intelligence is all about guessing.] ——»
Before leaving the German embassy, Juan received his first espionage grant—$3,000.
Juan, who promised that he would go to Britain for intelligence, faced the first conundrum was, where should he go?
Spain can't stay, after all, if the Germans find out that they haven't left, they will show their stuffing; And the hurdles to go through to the UK are not something Juan can handle.
After thinking about it, Juan decided to move to the neutral country of Portugal.
Upon arriving in Portugal, Juan's first letter to Germany explained why he was deep in Portugal.
"Dear Sir, I have arrived in Lisbon, Portugal. I got in touch with a fellow who worked at a British airport and offered to be my downline. However, for security reasons, all the information was brought to me by himself, and I sent it to you from Portugal. I have a way to keep my letters confidential. ”
After solving his worries, Juan began to think about how to send a message to Germany.
In Portugal, Juan ordered a daily newspaper and bought timetables for docks and railways, and with this readily available information, Juan began to fabricate intelligence.
I don't know if it's a coincidence or Juan really has a talent for data collection and sorting, and a lot of the information he sent was finally verified.
On this day, Juan, who was flipping through the newspapers as usual, found that the rest of the port in Malaysia was closed for half a day due to renovations.
The keen Juan noticed that something was wrong, and the other ports of Ma were not bombed, why did it suddenly take so long to renovate?
Thinking of the recent increasingly fierce naval battles, Juan had a bold guess: the British fleet was going to resupply here.
Juan carefully studied the size of the port and the speed of warships, and he speculated that the size of the fleet should be 6-10.
The German troops, which received the information, immediately began to deploy, and sure enough, they saw the British fleet at the time and place described by Juan and sank it.
Later, Juan speculated through an advertisement for short-term workers that Britain was going to build a military base, and reported it to the Germans.
Eventually the Luftwaffe discovered a small airfield under construction in the UK.
After two resounding attacks, the German military fully recognized Juan's capabilities and allocated him a large amount of money as a sign of encouragement.
German intelligence is happy, British intelligence on the other side is not having a good time.
Two successive major intelligence leaks made the British top brass scratch their heads, and specially sent "MI5" to find out this extremely hidden undercover agent.
At this time, Juan probably did not know about the internal chaos in Britain, and he continued to transmit his "elaborate" intelligence to Germany, and even developed an "intelligence team" with 26 downline.
In Juan's letters, the 26 undercover agents, with names and surnames, turned the German army around. In this way, Juan alone took 26 empty salaries and lived a rich life as a child.
«——[·Double Spy·] ——»
Although he was handsomely paid in Germany, Juan did not forget his original intention to bring down fascism.
In 1942, Juan walked into the U.S. Embassy in Portugal to tell him all about his intelligence to Germany and expressed his willingness to join the Allies.
Soon, the British also knew of Juan's existence, and after learning that he had guessed most of the British movements with just a few newspapers and a timetable, everyone present fell into a long silence.
In this way, Juan became a double agent.
In order to further improve Juan's reliability in the German army, the British provided some real information, which was sent to Germany by Juan with minor modifications.
In November 1942, the Allies prepared to send a fleet to North Africa, named Operation Torch.
Juan sent the correct information, but he was a little tricky in timing.
Normally, it takes 3 days for Juan intelligence to reach Germany, and in order to delay time, the British deliberately let the mail ship have an "accident" at sea.
In this way, by the time the intelligence arrived, the British operation would have already begun.
The German high-ranking officials who learned the news were so remorseful that they immediately decided to give Juan a telegraph and send Germany's highest secret "Ennig code".
The British side looked at the codebook in front of him like a treasure, after all, only Turing had cracked the "Ennig code" before, but now that the "Ennig code" is in hand, Germany's intelligence agencies can be regarded as no secrets.
Soon, Juan was at the pinnacle of his career, a series of actions before the Normandy landings.
In the first half of 1944, Juan sent more than 500 letters in 28 different handwriting (by this time, Juan declared to Germany that he had 28 people off the line), insisting that the Allied landing site was Calais.
In this way, until late at night the day before the Normandy landings, Juan sent out several emergency calls for help in order to better cover himself, indicating that the Allies were about to land in Normandy.
Juan, who is well aware of the recent chaos in the German intelligence system, knows that the German side will not pay attention to the news at this time.
In this way, for his outstanding performance in intelligence, Juan was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class by Hitler, and then by the King of England.
Juan became the only person in World War II to receive both the Allied and Axis medals.
«——[·Epilogue.]——»
After the end of World War II, Juan, under the cover of Britain, created news of his fake death and secretly went to Venezuela to open a grocery store.
In 1984, Juan's identity was declassified.
On October 10, 1988, Juan, a legendary spy, died at the age of 72.
Juan's family found a diary among his relics with the last sentence that reads:
"If I hadn't been a spy, I would have been a great screenwriter."