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Spy/Counterspy: The autobiography of Dusko Popov
by
Dusko Popov
Hardcover
,
339 pages
Published
January 28th 1974
by Grosset & Dunlap
(first published January 1st 1974)
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Dusko Popov may or may not have been a model for James Bond. He admits he's not sure, although he did know Ian Fleming. The Yugoslavian was definitely a playboy, but he was also one of the most effective double agents in World War II. His greatest accomplishment was helping to fool the Germans about the location of the D-Day landing. As a result, Hitler kept many divisions away from the Normandy beaches, and even after the landing began he still wouldn't move them because he was convinced that t
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An autobiography of a WWI double agent code name Tricycle whose life inspired Ian Fleming to create James Bond. An amazing tale of counter-espionage and events that not many people know about. For instance, it clearly shows how US intelligence was warned and new about the Pearl Harbor attack yet decided to ignore it. Doesn’t history repeat itself with an alarming accuracy?
In this enticing autobiography that reads like fiction, you learn about the wartime life of Yugoslavian Dusko Popov, the premier double agent during WWII. Dusko's work for the British was on at least one occasion witnessed by Ian Fleming, and he is thus considered to be part of the inspiration for the famous James Bond character. The life of Popov is, however much he might has enjoyed women and fast cars, far more interesting than any Bond story.
At one point Popov is sent to the U.S. to set up a ...more
At one point Popov is sent to the U.S. to set up a ...more
I read this book in 7th grade, I think...that was a long time ago...and I still remember lots of details of it. It's an autobiography of a Polish (?) man, who was both a spy for the British and the Germans during WWII. Supposedly, Dusko Popov was the basis for Ian Fleming's James Bond, and I could believe it. One of the parts that stuck to me was all the information sent to the US (through J Edgar Hoover -- whose description by Popov is amazing) regarding Pearl Harbor. (The book is told in a nov
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Ian Fleming based some of the James Bond character on the real life of Dusko Popov.
Popov is one of the probable models Fleming used for James Bond. Popov was a Yugoslav who worked as a double agent for the British. The most frustrating part of his story is his time in the U.S. (1941-1942) when he delivered evidence to the FBI of an impending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Hoover and others dismissed Popov as a playboy and unreliable.
A fascinating auto-biography by Yugoslav Dusko Popov who was a double agent during WWII and on whom Ian Flemming based his James Bond character.
brilliantly written and great insight into WWII.
Dusko Popov IS James Bond.
Dusko Popov IS James Bond.
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Dušan "Duško" Popov (born in Titel, Austria-Hungary, now Serbia) was a double agent working for the British intelligence agency MI6 during World War II under the code name "Tricycle" and for the German intelligence agency Abwehr under the code name "Ivan".
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