Double Agents: A Photo Dossier

Dusko Popov
According to Ian Fleming's memoirs, his fabled hero James Bond was partly inspired by this Austro-Hungarian double agent. At the onset of World War II, Popov was recruited by the Abwehr, the German secret service — an appointment he accepted — but immediately enlisted with the British to betray his Nazi spymasters. Code-named Tricycle, a reference to his fondness for ménages à trois, Popov fed the Germans false intelligence prepared by the British secret service while gallivanting across Europe and the U.S. as a playboy. In 1974, he published an account of his wartime counterintelligence service, Spy/Counterspy: The Autobiography of Dusko Popov

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