The Bedbug
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Klop in his German army greatcoat, with the Württemberg 123rd Grenadiers in the Forest of Argonne in 1915.
Klop’s brother Peter in his flying kit shortly before being killed on a mercy flight for the German air force.
Ago von Maltzan.
Sir Robert (later Lord) Vansittart.
Guy Liddell.
Sir Dick White.
Klop’s contacts: Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff.
Wolfgang zu Putlitz.
General Hans Spiedel (with Adolf Heusinger).
Triple defector Otto John.
Klop’s deadly rival, Walter Schellenberg of the German security service.
Klop’s agent ‘Ecclesiastic’ was photographed by her German lover copying supposedly secret British documents. In fact, they had been supplied by Klop as part of a deception operation.
An MI5 file picture of Klop in his coat with the distinctive Astrakhan collar that he wore on assignment in Lisbon.
Klop’s girlfriends: Liz Brousson painted by Nadia Benois.
Thea Struve, photographed by the surrealist artist Roland Penrose.
Previously unseen sketches from Nadia’s notebook: Klop in the 1930s.
sporting a monocle in 1922, shortly after their arrival in London.
Peter Ustinov as a child.
On the brink of triumph: Peter Ustinov at his Chelsea home with Nadia and Klop on 1 January 1953, the year he won an Oscar nomination for Quo Vadis and the Critics’ Award for the Best Foreign Play for the New York production of The Love of Four Colonels.
Klop (left) with younger brother Peter and mother Magdalena.
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