Double Agent Brand history

Before his remarkable espionage career, Pujol, a Barcelona native born in 1912, cycled through a series of occupations, including failed chicken farmer, owner of an unsuccessful movie theater and manager of a rundown hotel.

In 1941, he began working in the British atomic bomb project and shortly thereafter, for the Soviet military intelligence agency GRU. Two years later, he went to the United States and joined the team of scientists working in the Manhattan Project.

Meanwhile, he continued to offer to spy for the British, who in the spring of 1942 finally agreed to let him work as an operative and brought him to England, where he was given the code name Garbo because he was such a good actor.

In 1943 a young official from the German foreign ministry contacted Allen Dulles, an OSS officer in Switzerland who would later head the Central Intelligence Agency.

He was arrested in 1946 but was acquitted two years later.

After the war, Pujol moved to Venezuela, but in 1949 British authorities seeking to protect him from possible Nazi retribution told his ex-wife and children that he’d died of malaria in Africa.

As a young man, Donaldson, who was born in Belfast in 1950, joined the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and fought against British rule in Northern Ireland.

In 1951, two of his friends and fellow British operatives defected to Moscow after Philby warned them they were about to be exposed as double agents.

Following his release in 1953, Blake returned to Britain as a hero but also as a double agent.

In the wake of the scandal, Philby resigned from MI6; however, the agency later rehired him and in 1956 sent him to Beirut, where as a cover he again worked as a journalist.

Oleg Gordievsky in 1957

In 1961, Blake’s espionage activities were exposed and he was sentenced to 42 years in prison.

In 1963,Kim was revealed to be the part of Cambridge five(it is the spy ring of five men who passed information about Britain in world war two to ussr it is believed that Kim philby was the most successful). He worked in almost all the countries in the world and bluffed the British intelligence

After the end of the war, Hall joined the CIA and worked as an intelligence agent until 1966 when she retired.

Surveillance photo of Gordievsky in Denmark, 1977

In 1980, after Hanssen’s wife reportedly caught him with some suspicious-looking papers, he admitted to selling secrets to the Soviets but claimed the information he’d handed over was worthless.

However, decades later a British historian tracked down Pujol, still in Venezuela, and in 1984, the 40th anniversary of D-Day, the public learned he was still alive.

May 1985, Gordievsky was summoned back to Moscow, supposedly to be anointed as KGB chief in London.

He died there in 1988 and received a funeral with a KGB honor guard as well as other tributes including his own postage stamp.

In 1991, with the Soviet Union dissolving, Hanssen stopped spying out of fear he’d be found out.

In 2002, police in Belfast arrested Donaldson and accused him of being part of a Sinn Fein spy ring at the Northern Ireland parliament building, Stormont, where he served as Sinn Fein’s senior administrator.