Talk:Tricycle (spy)
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His family name sounds like a Bulgarian one, the Serb equivalent would be *Popovich. --Vladko 05:20, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
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)
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)
Yes, well observed! Kraxler 17:00, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Changed name
Dushko is a diminutive of Dushan...name changed to reflect this.
[edit] National Geographic source
I couldn't find any National Geographic source concerning this subject. Any links 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)
[edit] 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)
