A British double-agent from Spain gave the Nazis fake intel while the Nazis gave him the Iron Cross award and paid him $340,000.

In what must have been one of the greatest trollings in world history, Joan Pujol Garcia, a Catalan from Spain, offered the Nazis information on British troop movements. The catch was, he was in Spain the whole time, and he made up everything. Garcia, also known as “Garbo” to British intelligence, was working as a double-agent, who aided the British war effort by sending bad information to the Germans.

Most notably, Garbo told German intelligence that the D-Day invasion would not take place in Normandy, and would instead come from the Pas-de-Calais. To keep the Germans from catching on, he later sent them the real plans for the Normandy invasion, but only after it was already too late to use it. For his “efforts”, the Germans even awarded him the Iron Cross, making Garbo one of the only people to receive both the German Iron Cross and the British MBE award. In addition to the award, Garbo and his network of agents in Britain (all fictional characters) received a total of $340,000 US from the German government. Garbo had 27 fictitious agents operating under him during the war. To allay suspicions, every time one of his “agents” missed a valuable piece of information, Garbo would just kill him off. The Germans would then pay the “widow” a pension.