Editing Double-Cross System (section)

== Operation outside the United Kingdom ==

It was not only in the United Kingdom that the system was operated. A number of agents connected with the system were run in neutral Spain and [[Portugal]]. Some even had direct contact with the Germans in occupied Europe. One of the most famous of the agents who operated outside of the UK was [[Dušan Popov]] (''Tricycle''). 

There was even a case in which an agent started running deception operations independently from Portugal using little more than guidebooks, maps, and a very vivid imagination to convince his Abwehr handlers that he was spying in the UK. This agent, [[Juan Pujol García]] (''Garbo''), created a network of phantom sub-agents and eventually convinced the British authorities that he could be useful. He and his fictitious network were absorbed into the main double-cross system and he became so respected by [[Abwehr]] that they stopped landing agents in Britain after 1942. The Germans became dependent on the spurious information that was fed to them by Garbo's network and the other double-cross agents.