Garbo the Spy tells the true tale of the Allies’ secret weapon [MOVIE REVIEW]
Garbo the Spy, who was funded by the Nazis and loyal to the Allies. “Garbo the Spy,” a new documentary from novice director Edmon Roch, tells the tale of one of the Allies’ secret weapons in World War II, Juan Pujol Garcia. Pujol, a Spaniard from Barcelona, had a checkered history during the Spanish Civil War. Drafted by the Republicans, he went into hiding. Joining the army some time later, he eventually crossed over to the Nationalist side for what appeared to be an act of self-preservation. Following the end of the Civil War and toward the beginning of the Second World War, Pujol, for whatever unknown or suspicious reasons, attempted to offer his services as a spy to the British contingent in Spain. The Iberian Peninsula was a hotbed of underground and surreptitious activity by both sides during the war – Spaniards and Portuguese spying on fellow countrymen or on the British or on the Germans. The British turned down this “drop in” amateur and so Pujol offered his services to the Germans, who immediately accepted his offer to spy on the British. Pujol, code-name Alaric, was determined to sabotage the Germans from within. Basing himself in Lisbon, Alaric immediately set up a…
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