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There really is nothing quite like the element of surprise.

When the Allied forces appeared over the horizon on the morning of D -Day, it completely caught the Nazis off guard.

They weren't ready for such an enormous attack, at least not here.

According to German intelligence, an attack was expected to take place 150 miles away in Calais,

and so most of their troops had been moved to defend that location.

While the Nazis were defending an empty beach, the Allies stormed their way into Normandy and ultimately went on to win the war.

The Nazis had been tricked, and it was largely thanks to one man who had spent years trolling them from his own home.

By feeding them correct but useless information, it led them down rabbit holes, slowed them down, and ultimately tricked them into losing the war.

This man had no spying experience, and yet with sheer charisma and imagination, he managed to win the trust of Hitler whilst simultaneously becoming

Britain's best spy.

Before the outbreak of World War II, Spain was having its own civil war between the Republicans and the nationalists.

No one despised the war more than Juan Puyol Garcia, a chicken farmer from Barcelona.

His farm was taken by the government, his mother and sister were kidnapped, and he himself was forced to fight.

He hated the extremism of both sides, so when World War II came along, he was determined to do something to stop the Nazis.

He went to the British embassy in Madrid and offered to start spying on the Germans.

But the Brits were suspicious and turned him down.

And so Puyol had to come up with a different tactic.

This time, he went to the German embassy, pretending to be a passionate

Nazi supporter that worked for the Spanish government.

At the time, the Germans didn't have a reliable spy network in Britain, and so they desperately needed all the help they could get.

Puyol was hired.

They gave him a codebook, a bottle of invisible ink, 3 ,000 pounds in cash,

and told him to move to London and start spying on the British.

Instead, he moved to Portugal and simply pretended to be reporting from London.

Using nothing but a map of Britain and a tourist guide from his local library,

he started talking about the places he was visiting and the things he was seeing,

like military training exercises on Lake Windermere and warships leaving the Southwest.

In between all of the military sightings, he filled his letters with mundane personal details, like going for walks in the center of London,

visiting local cafes, and even mentioning when he was feeling ill.

To take things even further, he started creating a network of sub -agents that were supposedly feeding him information from all over the country.

There was the Swiss -German businessman stationed in Liverpool, the Venezuelan student in Glasgow, the Portuguese man living in Wales,

and the pilot that had agreed to carry his letters from London.

Each agent had a detailed backstory and family members that Puyol talked about at length.

Of course, none of these people actually existed.

But if the Germans ever called him out on anything, his sub -agents could take the blame, since they were the ones reporting the information.

Each letter was so long and so detailed that the Germans started to believe him.

They even started sending $500 a month to pay for his network of agents.

That's $11 ,000 in today's money.

But this was only the beginning.

So far, the Germans were impressed with Puyol's work, so they started asking more specific information.

That's when things took an interesting turn.

In his third letter, Puyol sent this report back to the Germans.

A convoy of 18 ships left the port of Liverpool on the 28th of March.

They were headed for the island of Malta.

Although Puyol made the whole thing up, by sheer coincidence, a fleet of warships had actually left Liverpool around the same time.

But before his letter ever reached the Germans, it was intercepted by Britain's intelligence agency, MI5, sending them into panic mode.

A full -scale manhunt was launched to try to track down this mysterious network of spies, but unsurprisingly, they found nothing.

It wasn't until they really started reading through Puyol's letters that they saw something odd.

According to one of Puyol's agents, people in Glasgow will do anything for a liter of wine.

This sentence gave it all away.

A liter of wine?

This really didn't reflect the typical

Scottish drinking habits, and Britain never used the metric system.

The Brits then learned that the Germans had actually wasted time

and resources trying to hunt down Puyol's fake convoy of ships heading to Malta.

It became clear that whoever was writing these letters, they were feeding the Nazis false information to confuse them, and it was working.

MI5 were so impressed that they tracked down Puyol and decided to turn him into a real British spy.

And in April 1942, Puyol moved to London for real and was given the codename Garbo.

Now, with access to real military information, he was about to take his trolling to the next level.

The Allies were planning to launch a surprise attack on the north coast of Africa, where Nazi forces were gaining power.

And so, over the next few months, Garbo started dropping very specific hints, suggesting that an attack was instead being planned for Norway.

One of his agents saw military mountaineering drills taking place and Canadian troops gathering in the east of Scotland.

Another agent heard rumors of Russian troops advancing westward.

Without ever mentioning Norway, he gradually painted the picture that it was the likely target, drawing the attention away from Africa.

Hitler himself was particularly worried about this attack and ended up moving hundreds of thousands of troops to protect the Norwegian borders.

Garbo's next move was a stroke of genius.

With the African invasion set to take place on the 8th of November, Garbo wrote another letter to the Germans,

this time detailing exactly how the Allies were going to carry out the attack.

He dated the letter the 1st of November, but purposely held onto it for another week.

The letter arrived in the hands of the Germans on the 9th, but it was too late.

The day before, the Allied forces invaded the North African coast with over 100 ,000 men.

The letter had all the correct details of the invasion, but it was simply too late to be of any use.

The Germans, however, were amazed by Garbo's work and replied, We are sorry it arrived too late, but your last report was magnificent.

Over the next several months, Garbo continued adding more members to his network, bringing the total to 27 spies.

Of course, all of these agents had to be paid, and by the end of 1943,

the Germans were sending Garbo over $100 ,000 a month to fund his network.

They were so pleased with the information that he was providing that they stopped hiring new spies in Britain.

With the network now in full swing, it was time for Garbo's masterpiece, D -Day.

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d -day landings in normandy were set to be the largest

invasion ever carried out by sea with more than 2 million soldiers from over 12 different nations, all arriving in over 100 ,000 vehicles.

Pulling this off without the Germans suspecting a thing would be an enormous challenge, but Britain had the best man for the job.

To avoid the information from arriving late like last time, the Germans told Garbo to start sending his messages via encrypted

Morse code instead of letters.

Garbo would first write his message in Spanish and break up the message into clusters of five characters.

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Then, consulting a code table, he would change each letter to jumble up the message.

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An operator would then start typing out the jumbled message into Morse code, which would be transmitted over radio to the Germans.

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With the ability to now send even more information, Garbo began sowing the seeds of doubt that would make D -Day an enormous success.

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One of Garbo's agents who worked in the London Underground claimed

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that the tunnels were being extended towards the southeast and that ammunition was being moved down the tunnels.

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Another agent saw assault barges gathering at the port of Dover and convoys of Canadian troops arriving in Southampton.

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Garbo himself began inventing an entire army of U .S soldiers and reported large numbers of them gathering in the southeast.

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All of this activity pointed towards a massive attack on Calais, the closest point to England.

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In order to back up Garbo's lies, the Brits started planting real evidence all around the southeast.

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Fake airstrips were cut into fields, and hollow wooden planes were placed at the side.

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German planes started bombing these fake sites, so they knew it was working.

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A gigantic fake oil storage facility was set up in Dover, and photos of King George visiting the site were placed in the local newspaper.

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Hollywood -style movie sets were used to turn modest boats into enormous battleships, and inflatable tanks were placed everywhere.

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They had built up an entire army of fake soldiers,

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vehicles, and supplies that completely distracted the Germans from the real preparation that was going on for Normandy.

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The goal was to convince the Germans that even when the Normandy attacks began, the real and much larger attack would happen later in Calais.

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Amazingly, the British intercepted a conversation between Hitler and a Japanese ambassador, where Hitler mentioned that the first attack was going to be a decoy

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and that they were really preparing for the second attack elsewhere.

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By this point, it was clear that Garbo's messages were now landing directly on Hitler's desk, and he was believing everything.

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Whenever Garbo told them about movement in the Southeast, the Nazis would move the pin on their map.

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They made the crucial decision to move hundreds of thousands of troops to defend Calais.

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That was hundreds of thousands of troops that wouldn't be in Normandy.

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June 5th, one day before D -Day.

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Although the German radio operators usually signed off at 11 .30, Garbo insisted that tonight they should listen out for a message at 3 a .m.

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Big news was expected from one of his sub -agents.

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At 3 a .m., Garbo reported that vomit bags and rations had been handed out to soldiers.

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This could only mean one thing.

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The attack was about to happen.

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But hours went by and no response was received.

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The Germans had gone to sleep.

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The Allies rocked up to Normandy at 6 .30, completely undercover, outnumbering the Germans by more than three to one.

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It was a brutal day, but the Allies managed to secure their entrance into France, and over the next six weeks,

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continued piling troops, vehicles, and supplies in through the beaches of Normandy.

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Amazingly, the Nazis refused to move more troops to Normandy, and in fact, ended up sending more to defend Calais,

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waiting for the second attack that would never come.

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Every letter, every detail, every lie, and every truth had bamboozled the Germans, and it allowed the Allies to recapture Europe and win the war.

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Despite the defeat, Hitler was so impressed with Garbo's messages that he was awarded the Iron Cross.

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At the same time, Britain awarded him an OBE, making him the only person to receive war medals from both sides of the same war.

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After the war, Puyol feared that the Nazis would be looking for him, and so he faked his own death and moved to Venezuela.

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And just like that, he was gone.

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Amazingly, this whole story would have never been told if it hadn't been for Nigel West, a writer from London.

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He was determined to track Garbo down, and so he got hold of a Barcelona phone directory and called every Juan Garcia in the area.

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As you can imagine, there were many.

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Eventually, one of Garbo's nephews picked up the phone and helped him make contact with Garbo.

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Forty years had gone by, but after a lot of convincing, Garbo eventually agreed to come over to Europe,

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where he visited Normandy and realized just how many lives he had saved.

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Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節口語課以影片“The Greatest Double Agent Ever”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：German, Garbo, letter, attack, agent。這段影片共有 129 個句子、2253 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 12:54。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 175 個詞，接近日常對話。只有 81% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙難度較高。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
spy 名詞	/spaɪ/	間諜 /間諜
ally 名詞	/ˈæl.aɪ/	盟國 /盟國
defend 動詞	/dɪˈfɪnd/	保衛 /保衛, 守衛 /守衛
enormous 形容詞	/ɪˈnɔː.məs/	巨大的
southeast 名詞	/sawˈθɪjst/	東南 /東南
arrive 動詞	/əˈɹaɪv/	到達 /到達, 到
invasion 名詞	/ɪnˈveɪʒən/	侵佔, 佔領 /佔領
convoy 名詞	/ˈkɒn.vɔɪ/	船團 /船團
amazingly 副詞	/əˈmeɪzɪŋli/	驚人的 /驚人的
trick 名詞	/ˈtɹɪk/	詭計 /詭計, 騙術 /騙術
hire 動詞	/ˈhaɪɹ/	租借, 出租
operator 名詞	/ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/	話務員 /話務員, 接線員 /接線員
convince 動詞	/kənˈvɪns/	說服 /說服
tunnel 名詞	/ˈtʌn(ə)l/	隧道, 地下道
embassy 名詞	/ˈɛmbəsi/	大使館 /大使館

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	發音	釋義
carry out 動詞	/ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/	進行 /進行
end up 動詞		到達
track down 動詞		找到, 查獲 /查獲
come along 動詞		陪伴, 陪同
come up with 動詞		想出, 提出
pick up 動詞		拾取, 撿 /撿

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 9 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 didn't, doesn't, don't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: southeast /sawˈθɪjst/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: invasion /ɪnˈveɪʒən/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, preparation /ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/
長單詞——注意重音位置: amazingly /əˈmeɪzɪŋli/, operator /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/, administrative /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹə.tɪv/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, ambassador /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, invasion /ɪnˈveɪʒən/, convoy /ˈkɒn.vɔɪ/, convince /kənˈvɪns/, administrative /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹə.tɪv/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: troop /tɹup/, defend /dɪˈfɪnd/, enormous /ɪˈnɔː.məs/, southeast /sawˈθɪjst/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: elsewhere /ˈɛlsˌʍɛɹ/, reflect /ɹɪˈflɛkt/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, reliable /ɹɪˈlaɪəbl̩/, crucial /ˈkɹuː.ʃəl/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 spy, ally, defend 這類單詞。

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