Page "Joan Pujol Garcia" Paragraph 13

He re-joined the Republican side using the false papers with the intention to desert as soon as possible, volunteering to lay telegraph cables near the front lines.

He managed to desert to the Nationalist side during the Battle of the Ebro in September 1938.

However, he was equally ill-treated by the Nationalist side, disliking their fascist influences and being struck and imprisoned by his colonel upon Pujol's expressing sympathy with the monarchy.