He was codenamed Tricycle by the British MI5 because he was the head of a group of three double agents. His German handlers referred to him by the codename Ivan. Apart from MI6 and the Abwehr, he also reported to the Yugoslav intelligence service, which assigned him the codename Duško. Popov was known for his promiscuous lifestyle and courted women during his missions, including the French actress Simone Simon. Popov provided the Germans with misleading and inaccurate information for much of the war.ĭeceptions in which he participated included Operation Fortitude, which sought to convince German military planners that the Allied invasion of Europe would take place in Calais, not Normandy, thereby diverting hundreds of thousands of German troops and increasing the likelihood that Operation Overlord would succeed. He held a great aversion to Nazism, and in 1940, infiltrated the Abwehr, Germany's military intelligence service, which considered him a valuable asset due to his business connections in France and the United Kingdom. Popov was born into a wealthy family and was a practising lawyer at the start of the war. He passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the Double-Cross System while working as an agent for the Yugoslav government-in-exile in London. Lawyer, businessman, intelligence officerĭuško Popov OBE ( Serbian Cyrillic: Душко Попов 10 July 1912 – 10 August 1981) was a Serbian double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II.
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