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Codename Tricycle - The True Story of the Second World War's Most Extraordinary Double Agent (Dusko Popov) (Hardcover)

by Russell Miller (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 308 pages
  • Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd (5 Aug 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0436210231
  • ISBN-13: 978-0436210235
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 820,158 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A wealthy playboy, incorrigible womaniser and dedicated gambler, Dusko Popov was one of Germany's most trusted spies, one of Britain's most successful double agents, and, some say, the inspiration for James Bond. With full access to FBI and MI5 records, along with private family papers, his incredible adventures can now be told authoritatively for the first time. Recruited by the Abwehr in 1940, 27-year-old Popov immediately offered his services to the British. His wry code-name was Tricycle, said to derive from his proclivity for nocturnal threesomes. Throughout the war he fed the Germans with a constant stream of military 'intelligence', all vetted by MI5, and came to be viewed as their most important and reliable agent in Britain; the information he supplied about the strength of the British armed forces after Dunkirk influenced German estimates for the remainder of the war. But when, in June 1941, he was ordered by the Abwehr to the United States to report on the defences at Pearl Harbour, J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, failed to heed his warnings, distrusting all spies and detesting Popov in particular, whom he considered to be 'a moral degenerate'. Facing the danger of

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A gripping and colourful portrait of a celebrated, glamorous, and daring double-agent who epitomised everything about the life of the spy.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The Legend Lives, 18 Jan 2008
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I have already reviewed Popov's own memoir, Spy Counter Spy. This book leans, inevitably, heavily on that work, while also drawing on other sources, both open and once-secret, now "declassified".

The writing keeps the interest, for the most part and tells the tale of Dusko Popov, Serbian playboy and WW2 double agent, who kept the Abwehr guessing as he funnelled rubbish and disinformation from British intelligence (rather, counter-intelligence) while picking up what information he might from the German side. The Abwehr, in my opinion, very likely knew or strongly suspected that he was working for the British, but who knows what that master of intrigue, Admiral Canaris, might have been up to in his most secret and labyrinthine plottings? Wheels within wheels etc...

The book relates (as does Spy Counter Spy) how Popov, in the immediate aftermath of war, tried to find his Abwehr friend (and, in the end, British agent) Johnny Jebsen, whom he had known since university at Heidelberg, only to have to track down Jebsen's Gestapo killer. Unable to kill him in cold blood, he beats him up in a wood. Popov's horror at the massive devastation in Germany caused by British and American bombing (and far far worse than the London "Blitz" and other attacks on the UK) is also chronicled.

This book goes beyond Spy Counter Spy (published in the early 1970's) and tells a little more about Popov's postwar business wheeling and dealing and his two wives (the first, an 18 year old, when he was about 50...). He died in the Balearic Isles not so long after his memoirs appeared; he was survived by his still young and beautiful Swedish second wife.

This book is worth reading, especially by those with an interest in the Abwehr or WW2 espionage generally. The typeface is far too small but that is its main, perhaps only fault. Recommended.
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