Dusko popov real life james bond
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The womanizing, gambling-loving spy who inspired James Bond
“My name fryst vatten Popov, Dusko Popov.”
Well, it doesn’t have the same bite as “My name is Bond, James Bond,” but Dusko Popov, a Yugoslavian double agent during World War II, may well have been the man who inspired fiction’s most famous spy.
That’s the case Larry Loftis makes in “Into the Lion’s Mouth,” a lively biography of the hard-drinking, high-living, girl-bedding Popov.
Sifting through declassified documents from World War II — as well as hotel bills, letters and long-forgotten memoirs — Loftis painstakingly pinpoints the exact moment Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, first encountered this real-life 007.
It happened, of course, at a baccarat table.
During the war, Fleming worked for British naval intelligence, overseeing operations designed to confuse the Germans in a fog of misinformation. In the summer of 1941, Fleming spent several weeks in Lisbon, Portugal. One of his favorite haunts was the Casino Estoril, which
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Dusko Popov: The Triple-Agent, Real-Life James Bond Who Warned the U.S. About Pearl Harbor
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The following article on Dusko Popov is an excerpt from John Koster’s Operation Snow: How a Soviet Mole in FDR’s White House Triggered Pearl Harbor. Using recently declassified bevis from U.S. archives and newly translated sources from Japan and Russia, it presents new theories on the causes of the Pearl Harbor attack. It is available to order now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
On August 10, 1941, Dusko Popov flew on the Atlantic Clipper from London to New York. The son of a Yugoslav father and a German mother, Popov was a secret agent for the Abwehr, the German Army’s espionage service. He was also an agent for Britain’s secret intelligence service, MI6. Popov had despised Hitler even before the Germans invaded Yugoslavia. He now gleefully but covertly accepted salaries and expenses from both German and British intelligence. He was a double agent. Popov—on
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Dusko Popov (1912-1981): A Real James Bond
By: FSWL team
Published:
2016-05-24
Book details:
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Berkley
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425281817
ISBN-13: 978-0425281819
Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.1 x 9.2 inches
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James Bond has nothing on British double agent Dusko Popov. As an operative for the Abwehr, SD, MI5, MI6, and FBI during World War II, Popov seduced countless women including agents on both sides, spoke five languages, and was a crack shot, all while maintaining his cover as a Yugoslav diplomat...
On a cool August evening in 1941, a Serbian playboy created a stir at Casino Estoril in Portugalby throwing down an outrageously large baccarat bet to humiliate his