Otto Pünter (4 April 1900 – 13 October 1988)[1] was a Swiss journalist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter.

[4] Pünter was also suspected to be a secret member of the Communist Party of Switzerland,[5] and he saw Stalinism as less evil than fascism, Nazism, and Francoism.

[6] During the Spanish Civil War, it was claimed that Pünter built his own intelligence network, in order to sell secrets to the French and British.

[8] His codename was Pakbo,[1] or sometimes Paquebot,[8] and Pünter worked with the Soviet intelligence agencies.

[7] In 1941, Pünter claimed he had intelligence from the French of the German invasion of the USSR; his source was said to be Rudolf Roessler.

[5] Pünter also claimed to have received information from German general Alfred Jodl, and had a team of agents in a secret monastery location in the Alps.