The dangerous lives of spies

The English writer Graham Greene described as nobody in his novel The human factor how difficult it is to live on the skin of a double agent, the thin line between loyalty of treason. Playing two bands requires self-control that can only support the spirits more temperate, so good doubles players are so appreciated by the intelligence services. Some of them have spent as much information as an army full of analysts.

The Spanish Juan Pujol Garcia was one of the most critical, because not helped little to decant World War II in favor of the Allies. Born in Barcelona in 1912, was the son of an industrialist Catalan who fought for Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
It began collaborating with nationals, but left the country to check repression of the Franco dictatorship after the war.

Installed in London, Pujol, known as Garbo by their interpretative skills, misled the Nazis working as a double agent for British intelligence and convincing that the Normandy landings was only a ploy of distraction prior to the real goal.
The Germans bite the hook and came to decorations. Pujol died forgotten in Venezuela in 1988.
More sounded the case of marriage was formed by the American Jewish Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, "the atom spies".
A court were accused in 1951. McCarthyism was in the middle of the witch-hunt of the USSR to sell the secrets of the atomic bomb. They died in the electric chair in 1953.