The spy Spanish Nazi who "swallowed" to the double of Montgomery

The trick to a pro-Franco control that was acting like spy of the Germany Nazi helped to confuse the Germans on the landing of Normandy. The role of captain Ignacio Molina Pérez, who "swallowed" the presence in Gibraltar of general Montgomery - in fact a double of his - has been revealed now in a more detailed way by the documents that have just disqualified the British National archives. In the sleepless reports, the secret services of the United Kingdom go so far as to him to qualify of "villain of the head to the feet".

The British intelligence was considering Molina, chief of information in the Military Government of Algeciras, a "real bigwig" between the Franco supporters who were acting of spies for the Nazi. In such a way that at once the Britons thought about him like bait to confuse the Germans on the landing of Normandy of June 6, 1944. So it was not only the Spanish Juan Pujol who, like double agent, cheated Hitler on the D-Day - in his case giving false information about the place of the landing - but another Spanish, this time without wanting it, also Nazi contributed to the adversity.

The history on the double of Montgomery was presented in the movie "I Was Monty's Double", of 1958. In her there is narrated the operation "Copperhead", in which the Australian lieutenant Meyrick Clifton was recruited to do of double of the hero of the victory of The Alamein and British person in charge for the landing of Normandy. Clifton was sent to Gibraltar on May 26 to make to see that the landing was not immediate.

Chief of the Gestapo in Algeciras The details now announced, published in «The Times«, they indicate that Molina known by the Britons like "Cosmos", was the clear target from the beginning. Molina was trying to be pro British, but the reports of the MI5 were already warning otherwise: "Molina has been decorated by the German Government in several occasions, and is proved that Molina is the principal agent in the extensive secret organization Nazi in Spain and Morocco". In 1944 he had been nominated a chief of the Gestapo in the area of Algeciras.

The day that the double of Montgomery came to way Gibraltar to the north of Africa, Molina was invited to the Rock by a high charge of the colonial Government. It was left in a room with a window from which I can see how supposed Montgomery was receiving the honors of the guard, and it later led at the entry of the building when the general was saying goodbye and getting into his car.

In accordance with the disqualified documents, Molina I cannot contain and he asked his host for the sense of the presence of the famous military man. It was answered him that Montgomery had done scale for digirse to Algiers. After coming to The Line, Nazi saw the spy doing a called phone companhy to himself. The British intelligence thought that "the material came to Berlin in 20 minutes".

Molina would embellish his history, assuring one of his confidants, in fact a spy who was working for the Britons, who there was estrechazo the hand of Montgomery and who seemed "very nice", an expression that appears in Castilian in the report. Molina was "satisfied with himself".

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