cover of episode The Spy Who Inspired 007 | Retribution | 4

The Spy Who Inspired 007 | Retribution | 4

2024/3/11
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Duško Popov, a Serbian double agent, played a crucial role in British intelligence during World War II, particularly in Operation Fortitude, which aimed to deceive the Nazis about the Allied invasion of Normandy.

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British intelligence is out to fool the Nazis into thinking the Allies invasion will start anywhere but Normandy. But to make Operation Fortitude’s lies stick, they need an agent who can sell the fiction to the Abwehr under interrogation and only one man has the chutzpah for that: Duško Popov.

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