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Duško Popov

1912 - 1981

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Dušan "Duško" Popov (Serbian Cyrillic: Душко Попов; 10 July 1912 – 10 August 1981) was a Serbian intelligence agent, lawyer and businessman who served as a double agent for MI6 during World War II. Feigning to be an asset of the German Abwehr, he passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the British Double-Cross System while occasionally using cover as the Yugoslav government-in-exile in London diplomat. Popov was born into a wealthy family and was practicing law at the start of the war. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Duško Popov has received more than 727,861 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Duško Popov is the 679th most popular military personnel (down from 503rd in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 64th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Serbian Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Duško Popov ranks 679 out of 2,058. Before him are Maarten Tromp, Takijirō Ōnishi, Juan José Flores, Marie-Pierre Kœnig, August Hirt, and Ling Tong. After him are Grigory Kulik, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Roza Shanina, Rostam Farrokhzad, Hans Langsdorff, and Mark W. Clark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Duško Popov ranks 90. Before him are José Ferrer, Michel Debré, Axel Springer, Marina Raskova, Nereo Rocco, and Lady Bird Johnson. After him are Feroze Gandhi, Arne Næss, Princess Deokhye, Jiří Trnka, Gordon Gollob, and Woody Guthrie. Among people deceased in 1981, Duško Popov ranks 49. Before him are Lotte Lenya, Gyula Lóránt, Karl Richter, Stefan Wyszyński, Bernard Lee, and Rómulo Betancourt. After him are Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Mike Hailwood, Christy Brown, Heinz Kohut, and Albert Cohen.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Duško Popov ranks 96 out of 661. Before him are Radivoj Korać (1938), Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia (1819), Đorđe Balašević (1953), Mirjana Marković (1942), Miloš Milutinović (1933), and Željko Obradović (1960). After him are Irinej, Serbian Patriarch (1930), Filip Vujanović (1954), Velibor Vasović (1939), Dušan Makavejev (1932), Nikolaj Velimirović (1880), and Beba Lončar (1943).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Serbia

Among military personnels born in Serbia, Duško Popov ranks 7. Before him are Romulus Augustulus (460), Draža Mihailović (1893), Josip Jelačić (1801), Stepa Stepanović (1856), Živojin Mišić (1855), and Milunka Savić (1890). After him are Petar Bojović (1858), Momčilo Perišić (1944), Vetranio (300), Dragan Vasiljković (1954), and Sefer Halilović (1952).

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