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== After the war == [[File:Pasaporte Juan Pujol García.jpg|thumb|250px|Pujol's passport in Venezuela]] After the Second World War, Pujol feared reprisals from surviving Nazis. With the help of MI5, Pujol travelled to [[Angola]] and faked his death from [[malaria]] in 1949.<ref name=Javier/> He then moved to [[Lagunillas Municipality, Zulia|Lagunillas]], [[Venezuela]], where he lived in relative anonymity running a bookstore and gift shop.<ref name=MI5/><!-- called 'La Casa del Regalo' - not in reference --> Pujol divorced his first wife and married Carmen Cilia,<ref name=Lisbon_Route/> with whom he had two sons, Carlos Miguel and Joan Carlos, and a daughter who died in 1975 at the age of 20.<ref name=Javier/> By 1984, Pujol had moved to his son Carlos Miguel's house in La Trinidad, [[Caracas]].<ref name=Javier/> In 1971, the British politician [[Rupert Allason]], writing under the pen name ''Nigel West'', became interested in Garbo. For several years, he interviewed various former intelligence officers, but none knew Garbo's real name. Eventually, Tomás Harris' friend [[Anthony Blunt]], the Soviet spy who had penetrated MI5, said that he had met Garbo, and knew him as "either Juan or José García". Allason's investigation was stalled from that point until March 1984, when a former MI5 officer who had served in Spain supplied Pujol's full name. Allason hired a research assistant to call every J. García{{snd}}an extremely common name in Spain{{snd}}in the Barcelona phone book, eventually contacting Pujol's nephew. Pujol and Allason finally met in [[New Orleans]] on 20 May 1984.<ref name=Pujol11>[[#Pujol|Pujol (1985)]]. p. 7 "Our rendezvous was to be in New Orleans. There on Sunday, 20 May 1984, I first met my quarry."</ref> They collaborated on his autobiography ''Operation Garbo'', published in 1985. At Allason's urging, Pujol travelled to London and was received by [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]] at [[Buckingham Palace]], in an unusually long audience. After that he visited the [[Special Forces Club]] and was reunited with a group of his former colleagues, including [[T. A. Robertson]], [[Roger Fleetwood Hesketh]], Cyril Mills and [[Desmond Bristow]].<ref name=Javier/><ref name=Pujol08>[[#Pujol|Pujol (1985)]]. p. 2 "Late in May 1984 a group of retired intelligence officers gathered in the drawing room of the Special Forces Club to be reunited with a spy reported dead in 1959."</ref> On the 40th anniversary of D-Day, 6 June 1984, Pujol travelled to Normandy to tour the beaches and pay his respects to the dead.<ref name="Pujol11" /> Pujol died in [[Caracas]] in 1988.<ref name="MI5" /><ref name="Javier" /> He is buried in [[Choroní]],<ref name="Javier">{{cite book|last=Juárez Camacho|first=Javier|title=Juan Pujol, el Espía que Derrotó a Hitler|language=es|location=Madrid|publisher=Temas de Hoy|year=2004|isbn=978-84-8460-372-6|trans-title=Juan Pujol, the spy who defeated Hitler|url=http://www.elcorteingles.es/libros/secciones/capitulos/capitulo_libro.asp?ccodcapi=1&codiisbn=84-8460-372-5&volver=S|access-date=22 February 2012}}{{dead link|date=August 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} edition of Catalan book (see [[#Further_reading|Further reading]]).</ref> a town inside [[Henri Pittier National Park]] by the [[Caribbean Sea]].<ref name="Javier" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.venezuelatuya.com/centro/choronieng.htm|title=Choroní|work=Venezuela Tuya|access-date=19 February 2012|archive-date=28 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228125451/https://www.venezuelatuya.com/centro/choronieng.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://choronivenezuela.net|trans-title=Your Tour Guide to Choroní and Venezuela|title=Su Guía de Turismo para Choroní y Venezuela|access-date=19 February 2012|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302044703/http://www.choronivenezuela.net/|archive-date=2 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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