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Oh dear, yes! A fellow student of the subject, I see! Wasn't Garbo decorated by both sides for the information he sent around D-Day?
My favourite story from that time is that Garbo told Berlin that he had an urgent message at midnight on the 6th which they must be online for.
It was going to be a vague "looks like it's imminent" message.
Berlin didn't come online.
So they re-wrote the whole message. It gave all the details of the invasion up until about 7am. Something like "Allied fleet sailing for Normandy. Landing sites will be X, Y, Z. Following divisions are involved..."
When Berlin next came online, Garbo sent a very angry message, scolding them for missing the vital midnight message and sending them the new message with all the details which they (now) had anyway (because those troops were on the ground).
Berlin never twigged that they got the message after they already knew the information, and that message 100% silenced all critics of the Garbo network. Garbo continued to talk about Calais for weeks afterwards, until he finally said that Normandy had been surprisingly successful and Calais was cancelled - by which time an invasion there would have been pointless.
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If you have never read it, I would recommend my all-time favourite book on WW2: "Between Silk and Cyanide".
Not exactly related, but it does touch on D-Day in rather interesting ways.
Outsourced with the clear goal to bring the numbers down. Whatever it takes.
https://libcom.org/files/DeathShip.pdf
https://www.amazon.de/This-London-Life-Death-World/dp/1447272447
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