Duško Popov (1912–1981)

As always the memoirs of a defector, often ghost written and preapproved are worth looking at to study motivation, but are flawed and have a primary purpose of propaganda in their own right and a way to provide funds for information received. Read them cautiously. Nevertheless and important defection. Or was it a deception?

An autobiography of a WWII double agent code name Tricycle whose life may have inspired Ian Fleming to create James Bond. By publishing The Double-Cross System in 1974, J. C. Masterman cracked the Official Secrets Act door, allowing the greatest spy ever, Dusko Popov, to publish his memoirs two years later.
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 show more for the German intelligence agency Abwehr under the code name "Ivan". show less

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