Edgar Hoover succeeded in blowing his cover. The FBI ignored his German questionnaire, but J. On August 10, 1941, the Germans sent Popov to the United States to construct a spy network and gather information on Pearl Harbor. When World War II ensued, the playboy became a spy, eventually serving three dangerous masters: the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI. Years later he would be arrested and banished from Germany for making derogatory statements about the Third Reich. As a youngster, he was expelled from his London prep school. From the sideline, watching with intent interest was none other than Ian Fleming… The Serbian was Dusko Popov. The Serbian was a British double agent, and the money―which he had just stolen from the Germans―belonged to the British. On a cool August evening in 1941, a Serbian playboy created a stir at Casino Estoril in Portugal by throwing down an outrageously large baccarat bet to humiliate his opponent. Into the Lion’s Mouth : the True Story of Dusko Popov : World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-life Inspiration for James Bond by Larry Loftis Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, NSA played a vital, often fraught and controversial role in the major events of the Cold War, from the Korean War to the Cuban Missile Crisis to Vietnam and beyond. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community found itself targeting not soldiers on the battlefield, but suspected spies, foreign leaders, and even American citizens. The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union” by Stephen Budiansky Stashinsky’s story would inspire films, plays, and books – including Ian Fleming’s last James Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun. Stashinsky’s testimony, implicating the Kremlin rulers in political assassinations carried out abroad, shook the world of international politics. The publicity stirred up by the Stashinsky case forced the KGB to change its modus operandi abroad and helped end the career of Aleksandr Shelepin, one of the most ambitious and dangerous Soviet leaders. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case of the entire Cold War. In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. The Man with the Poison Gun: a Cold War Spy Story by Serhii Plokhyįrom one of the foremost historians of the former Soviet Union, a nonfiction spy thriller about a KGB assassin whose defection to the West changed the face of Cold War espionage.
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