Into the Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond

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Into the Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond Page 46

by Larry Loftis


  re-engagement of Dusko, 144, 146–147, 148

  restlessness of Dusko, 160

  Schreiber’s positive views of Dusko, 196

  VE Day party, 249

  warnings to Dusko, 1, 152, 168, 172

  Yugoslav Escape Route (Allied escape line), 201, 236, 277

  Zeis and, 179

  Wilson, Trevor, 252

  Winchell, Walter, 135, 141–142, 142–143

  Wireless Board (W Board), 42, 204

  Woolf, Virginia, 91

  World War I (First World War), 29, 44

  World War II (Second World War), 87. See also Britain/British; espionage in WWII; Germany/Germans; United States of America/Americans; Yugoslavia, Serbia

  WORM, THE (Zeis), xi, 171, 179, 228

  Wren, Walter (MI6), xii, 122, 123, 159

  Yamamoto, Isoroku, 96–97

  Young, Roger S., 126n, 126–127, 128

  Yugoslav Escape Route (Allied escape line; trick Germans into sending double agents), 52, 54, 167–168, 171, 172, 174, 193–194, 195, 200, 201, 211, 220, 236, 243, 277

  Yugoslavia, Serbia. See also Popov, Dusan Miladoroff “Dusko”; World War II

  atrocities across, 68, 69, 91, 93, 98

  bureaucracy in, 27

  economy destruction, 212

  Franco and, 194

  information security lacking in, 247–248

  officers in Switzerland, 167, 168

  Serb or Croat question to Dusko, 61

  Yugoslav Legation stamp and seal, 215

  Zapp (Professor), 71n, 110, 111

  Zeis, Stefan (THE WORM), xi, 171, 179, 228

  Zhukov (General), 249n

  Zurich, Switzerland, ix, 141, 157, 245, 246, 248

  *European Union.

  *European Central Bank.

  *Father of actor Peter Ustinov.

  *Later, vice-chancellor of Oxford University.

  *A Victorian prison in West London.

  *Navy certificates, which were needed for cargo coming to Europe through British-controlled waters.

  *French writer of erotic thrillers.

  *Despite MI5 files KV 2/845 and 2/862 indicating that the change of code names occurred when Popov acquired two sub-agents, two authors have promoted a racy and fictitious version of why Dusko’s code name was changed—that he fancied “three-in-a-bed” sex. See Notes.

  *Abwehr headquarters in Berlin.

  *His real name was Wilhelm Leisner.

  *During World War II, all mail between the U.S. and Europe was processed through British-owned Bermuda.

  *A flammable substance used in the manufacture of photographic film.

  *Mikrats, Goldberg called them. See Notes regarding J. Edgar Hoover’s allegation in 1946 that a “Professor Zapp” of the Technical High School in Dresden had invented them.

  *But with approval of Her Majesty’s Government.

  *Popov sometimes mistakenly remembered that he received $80,000, or a $4/£ rate; MI5 files, however, reveal an exchange rate of $2/£, or $40,000. See Notes.

  *Dealer position.

  *Office of Naval Intelligence.

  *Who had opened offices on the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh floors of Rockefeller Center, just below the FBI offices on the forty-fourth.

  *Later discovered to be a Soviet double agent.

  *Popov stated that he first met with Lanman and Foxworth on August 13, 1941, in Foxworth’s office in Rockefeller Center. Foxworth’s office at this time, however, was in Washington.

  *The pertinent pages of Connelley’s transmittal letter and Exhibit C are included herein as Appendix 1.

  *Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet.

  * Currently the site of the Setai on Collins Avenue.

  * Foxworth moved from Washington to Manhattan about this time to assume his new role as Assistant Director, New York.

  * Engels would later send him another $8,500.

  * Which subsequently appeared in J. Edgar Hoover’s April 1946 Reader’s Digest article.

  * Office of Congressional and Public Affairs.

  * Code name for the radio interception station connected with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park.

  * About $10,250.

  * Spaniard and double agent Juan Pujol, whom the Germans trusted and codenamed ARABEL.

  * A Polish agent.

  * Whose real name was Otto Kürer.

  * Later exposed as a Soviet spy in the Cambridge Five ring.

  * Paul Fidrmuc, who had recently survived poisoning.

  * A fascist political party and movement founded in 1933, and unified and absorbed by Franco in 1937.

  * Dusko was Ivan I, his sub-agent (Dickie Metcalfe/BALLOON) was Ivan II.

  * Mining engineer and Churchill’s advisor on raw material supply.

  * Kriegsverdienstkreuz.

  * The intercept showed a “W,” but Bletchley Park correctly identified it as an “M” to Wilson.

  * MI5 files conflict as to whether the abduction occurred on April 29 or 30.

  *Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces).

  * Ernst Kaltenbrunner was director of the Reich Main Security Office, a combination of the Gestapo, Kripo, and SD.

  * Dusko apparently was unaware that his brother was in Paris at this time.

  * Victory in Europe.

  * By the time Soviet General Zhukov ratified the surrender in a ceremony with German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel on May 8 in Berlin, it was May 9 Moscow time.

  * Lieutenant Colonel.

  * OSTRO was a Sudeten Czech named Paul Fidrmuc who operated from Lisbon and fed the Abwehr “intelligence” based on gossip, hunches, pre-war reference materials, and pure imagination. His network of sub-agents was entirely fictitious.

  * The attempt by German senior officers to assassinate Hitler.

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