The nature of intelligence work is risk-taking, and to gain valuable intelligence, you usually need to take greater risks. However, during World War II, there was a unique spy who broke this rule, and he was Juan, known as "the best spy in history".
Juan's approach to intelligence is different, he does not need to go deep into the lurking or steal classified documents with great skill, and his intelligence sources are almost entirely based on "fabrication". Surprisingly, despite this, the information he fabricated often reconciles strikingly with reality.
Juan was born in Spain in 1912 and came from a well-off family. He loved reading from an early age, and his parents wanted him to receive a higher level of education. However, at the age of 18, his father died and his mother was arrested in the midst of political turmoil. Alone, Juan wanders around.
In order to survive, Juan joined the Spanish National Army, which was powerful in Spain at the time, which was supported by Nazi Germany. Although the army provided him with food and clothing, the abuse of his superiors stirred up hatred in him.
As the outbreak of World War II approached, Spanish politics gradually turned to fascism, the National Army was disbanded, and Juan decided to go to England with hatred for the Nazis. He believed that sooner or later Britain and Germany would go to war, so he went to the British embassy to volunteer as an intelligence officer to help Britain fight the Nazis.
However, British officials, suspicious of his professionalism, rejected his application. Then, in an unexpected decision, Juan traveled to Nazi Germany, which he once hated.
In Germany, Juan established an image for himself in a clever way, openly expressing loyalty to Führer Hitler, attracting the attention of German officials. Although they had doubts about his intelligence capabilities, they decided to give him free play and not invest too many resources.
Juan's next destination was Portugal, a region where German influence had not yet expanded and newspaper content was not censored. He planned to pick random information from the newspapers to deal with the Germans.
A piece of news about the closure of the French port of Aquitaine piqued his interest. Juan speculated that the temporary closure was related to British military activity, so he gathered information about the port and estimated the number of warships it could accommodate.
In the end, he provided the Germans with a "blind guess" of intelligence, claiming that six British warships would enter the Aquitaine area within a month. When the Germans received the intelligence, they immediately carried out an ambush, which resulted in the destruction of 4 unsuspecting British warships.
Juan's actions made him an important source of intelligence in the eyes of the Germans, appointed as a senior intelligence officer, with the power to recruit agents, and special funds at his disposal. Juan forged 26 agents and demanded large sums of money to make a lot of money for himself.
However, despite his presence in Germany, Juan's hatred of the Nazis persisted, and he joined the German army out of a "curve to save the country" mentality.
By chance, Juan secretly contacted British agents and revealed that he was the so-called "treacherous", but in fact only relied on information analyzed by newspapers. The British agent was struck by his remarkable reasoning abilities and showed great interest. Juan accepted the offer of the British and became a double agent.
On the one hand, he cooperated with British intelligence to provide intelligence to the German army, and on the other hand, he obtained the codebooks of the intelligence system from the German army, giving Britain an invaluable resource that allowed them to easily decrypt encrypted messages from Germany.
In the end, World War II ended and Germany was defeated, and Juan fulfilled his wish and destroyed the Nazis. His legend became an anecdote in the history of war.