Operation Garbo

Juan Pujol Garcia was born in Barcelona in 1912. He died in Caracas in 1988. Nigel West often speaks at intelligence seminars and has lectured at both the KGB headquarters in Dzerzhinsky Square and at the CIA headquarters in Langley, where he once lectured on counter-intelligence to an audience that included the Soviet spy Aldrich Ames. He now teaches members of the intelligence community at the Counter-Intelligence Centre in Washington DC (www.cicentre.com). He is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence and World War II Quarterly. In 2003 Nigel West was awarded the US Association of Former Intelligence Officers' first Lifetime Literature Achievement Award. In 2011 he was appointed chairman of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year panel of judges.