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Triple Agent?

I'm Confused - wouldn't he simply be a Double Agent? Joeylawn (talk) 04:45, 15 November 2015 (UTC) He was a double agent known as Ivan by the Awehr and Tricycle by the XX organization (called Double Cross). The reason for the code name Tricycle on the British side is because even though he was under the control of XX he also did work for both MI5 and MI6 as well as for XX. Does that make it clearer? I hope so. The sources are of course his book Spy / CounterSpy but more clearly in his television interview. You will have a very difficult time getting a good softbound copy of Spy / Counterspy. Mine is falling apart. I had to add judicious little tiny streams of glue at the openings of the binding every so often as I read it being careful not to glue the pages together as well. Now you know why a softbound copy of Spy / Counterspy in mint shape is so expensive. Buy the hardbound version. AbeBooks is sometimes less expensive than Amazon. hhhobbit (talk) 18:12, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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go agent tricycle

His family name sounds like a Bulgarian one, the Serb equivalent would be *Popovich. --Vladko 05:20, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Many Serbian families have that name. It may sound like a Bulgarian, but it doesn't mean that Popovs are Bulgarians. Dragoljub Kojadinovic 06:00, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bulgarians aren't the only oes that have surnames ending in -ov. Serbs for one have them as well as -ov is a general Slavic ending for possessive nouns. Poles, Russians, Czechs, Ukrainians etc also have surnames ending in -ov.

This sentence doesn't make sense: "In 1942 Popov was dispatched to the United States by the Abwehr, apparently to gather information, but secretly to transmit to the Americans the fact that the Japanese were planning to attack Pearl Harbor. " Pearl Harbor attack was Dec. 1941... Maybe author meant to say 1941 instead of 1942? Sbrawner 16:56, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, well observed! Kraxler 17:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Changed name

Dushko is a diminutive of Dushan...name changed to reflect this.

DuSko is a dimunitive of DuSan. There is no SH in Serbian. Š has to be written in English as S.

Citation needed

I'm pretty sure Spy, Counterspy could count a citation for "Dusko believed Hoover mistrusted him."

National Geographic source

I couldn't find any National Geographic source concerning this subject. Any slinks to prove the claim from the first sentence?

That's because it was the National Enquirer. Someone vandalized the name back in December and nobody noticed. Surely there are some better sources thean the Enquirer! BTW, Flemming is claimed to have based Bond on many people, it therefore it hardly seems worth mentioning, in the lead paragraph at least. Verne Equinox 02:35, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Flemming´s job in the MI5 was to observe Popov, Popov was also known for his technical gimmicks, and as already written he has been known as a ladies´ man. Well quite a few similarities to James Bond, isn´t it ? Oh sorry I forgot about your Serbophobia: James Bond has NO connection whatsoever to the original role model Duško Popov ! Sure this statement you´ll love to be true, but it´s not ! James Bond is clearly based on Duško Popov.

Yugoslavia

At the outset of World War II the country was named Yugoslavia, Serbia was one of the provinces. This is a historical fact, independent of the recent ethnical cleansing. So, correctly, he was a Yugoslav businessman, when he started his career. Kraxler 18:29, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

When he was born there was no Yugoslavia, so he was born even with a Serbian Citizenship. Later when the first Yugoslavia was founded (1918, end of 1st World War Mr. Kraxler !), the nationality was Serbian and the citizenship was Yugoslav (for Serbs in Yugoslavia), people kept their Nationality in Yugoslavia, they were only Yugoslav citizens. This was also the case in the second Yugoslavia. --Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.6.40 (talk) 17:53, August 26, 2007 (UTC)

His mission to the FBI

There is a whole chapter in his book about his mission to the U.S. to inform the Americans of the attack on Pearl Harbor. It's given as a reference already. Kraxler 02:42, 22 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

His mission was to inform the FBI about Pearl Harbour, "to establish a new German network in the USA" was his cover. Please try to understand how espionage works. Kraxler (talk) 14:28, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Patriot Act

The reference to the Patriot Act must be incorrect since that legislation was not proposed until 2001!

Fair use rationale for Image:Counterbook.gif

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Reads like a story

This article has no sources, nor does it in a neutral point of view describe this person's accomplishments. Lines as "There Popov fed enough MI5-approved information" "..to the Germans to keep them happy", "..but he secretly despised the Nazis for invading his country", and "For whatever reason.." reads like some kind of fiction novel (and mind the first very dubious on Germany, and I'm not German, pointing this out either). Grinder0-0 (talk) 17:49, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:55, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Title of the page.

I've taken the liberty of being bold and moving the page to the accented form for the correct title, leaving the ascii version as a redirect. This is precedented by Kurt Gödel and other articles where the article is at the accented version of the name. --Neskaya ^kanetsv? 19:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not a new Tricycle

Can anybody say what his German cryptonym was? (I've read Spy/counterspy, but I don't recall one...) TREKphiler ^{hit me ♠} 03:31, 9 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ivan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.132.242.152 (talk) 03:15, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uh -watch the movie ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_KDUQjo9rU&feature=PlayList&p=C62028CE777787C8&index=0&playnext=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.132.242.152 (talk) 03:18, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I might, if it didn't insist on crashing my browser... TREKphiler ^{any time you're ready, Uhura} 06:05, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He got the name “Tricycle” before he handled three agents. In the book “D-day Decoded” by William Jordan, it is stated that he got this name from a supposed habit of inviting two girls up to his room at once. This could be interesting to put in the article, if it can be verified by another source. 109.149.148.23 (talk) 12:20, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cable TV

A program on cable TV dealt with Tricycle's exploits, and matches the story in the text.

Amongst other things, the program mentioned Tricycle's use of the new German microdot technology. Tabletop (talk) 08:25, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]