In this episode of pplpod, we explore the unbelievable true story of Juan Pujol García, the Spanish chicken farmer who became one of the most effective double agents in modern history and helped change the outcome of World War II without ever firing a shot. After surviving the brutality of the Spanish Civil War and developing a deep hatred for authoritarian extremism, Pujol volunteered to help Britain fight Nazi Germany. Rejected multiple times by British intelligence, he took matters into his own hands by convincing German intelligence that he was a loyal pro-Nazi operative living in Britain. Despite never setting foot in the United Kingdom and barely speaking English, Pujol built an entirely fictional spy network from a hotel room in Portugal using guidebooks, train schedules, newspapers, and pure imagination. The episode follows how h ...