A Portuguese could have changed to the course of World War II, according to declassified documents Tuesday in London that reveals that if it had not been shortage, the Nazi spy would have made fail the assault operation allied in the north of Africa, in 1942.

The Portuguese Gastao de Freitas Ferraz was a simple radio operator in the boat of fishing Gil Eannes, that was authorized to sail in the Atlantic due to the neutrality of Portugal during World War II.

But from the beginning of the war, Of Freitas he secretly passed information to the submarines German over the movements of the American ships in the Atlantic Ocean, indicates the document declassified by the British National Archives.

If the Portuguese had detected the ships with American troops destined to the disembarkation in the north of Africa, the Germans would be surely shortage the intentions of the Allies, that had tried to make believe the Nazis who a disembarkation was going to take place in the coasts of France. Of Freitas he represented a threat for the plan of the Allies to send a disembarkation in Africa of the North, according to documents.

That plan, known under the name of code Operation Torch, looked for abrir a second in front military facing the Nazis, who were concentrates in the Soviet Union. But the Portuguese was intercepted in time, by order of the MI5, the service of British counterespionage, indicate the archives British.

The success of the Operation Torch, sent the 8 of November of 1942, was decisive for the victory allied on the Nazis.

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