Was This WW2 Secret Agent The Real James Bond? | Secret War

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  • The name's Popov. Duško Popov. Was this Croatian secret agent the inspiration for the legendary James Bond? Discover how this one man made D-day possible and nearly stopped pearl harbour.
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  • @scribbler60
    @scribbler60 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    As a fictional character, Bond was most likely a compilation of numerous characters that influenced Fleming. Popov was one among many.

    • @giorgosarifoglu953
      @giorgosarifoglu953 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Most likely yes...a combination of many real characters and ww2 and cold war stories....

    • @safiremorningstar
      @safiremorningstar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Don't forget the gentleman had a desire himself to be out in the field and doing things but he wasn't so you could call this wish fulfillment in his own mind... And many of the real spies that he knew of the guys who are really out in the field, and some women as well.

    • @safiremorningstar
      @safiremorningstar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because from where he said he got to see everything it was a good place to sit when you think about it.

    • @giorgosarifoglu953
      @giorgosarifoglu953 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@safiremorningstar what are you talking about??? Popov was a known agent and a real one too...but Ian Flemings James Bond is cherry picked stories from real agents and real stories....

  • @TheJapanChannelDcom
    @TheJapanChannelDcom 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Hoover would be ashamed of how history has remembered him for what he really was.

    • @fokkerd3red618
      @fokkerd3red618 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's what happens when alphabet agencies within our government aren't kept in check. The ATF is a prime example of why these agencies shouldn't exist

  • @helanna9843
    @helanna9843 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Ian Fleming said in an interview that much of the James Bond character he wrote was based on Sidney Reilly, a Russian born spy he was familiar with during his work for British intelligence. A television series, "Reilly, Ace of Spies" was filmed in the 1980's based on that character.

    • @josephteller9715
      @josephteller9715 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Flemming lied and would not reveal much about WW2 due to the official secrets act. Reilly was from an earlier era.

    • @shaunmyers3562
      @shaunmyers3562 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      True, but Fleming admitted before his death that he was inspired by Popov when he encountered him in a casino. That's how you get the first James Bond novel Casino Royale.

    • @hinriksteinsson9131
      @hinriksteinsson9131 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@shaunmyers3562 There is also the mention of Sir Willian Stephenson........

    • @kevinhall3449
      @kevinhall3449 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mr. Stephenson, Canadian from Winnipeg Manitoba - - Icelandic family descendent born under a different name, raised by friends of family, WW 1 veteran, WW 2 spy chief for Churchill wrkn under 'British Passport Control' in NYC, Rockefeller Center

  • @jabersawaya7131
    @jabersawaya7131 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Popov and Garbo are the true heros of WW2

  • @EileenThompson-cq8nd
    @EileenThompson-cq8nd 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Thank you so much for this incredible story of such a great man! I am now a member of your channel and am beyond impressed with your content!

  • @andrewhall7930
    @andrewhall7930 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've watched probably 2000 documentaries in my life.And I can say unequivocally the Documentary has the best music

  • @nishtapsicoterapiatanatolo9077
    @nishtapsicoterapiatanatolo9077 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Interesting And thrilling video!! Thanks!

  • @LIJXFVKINBVY
    @LIJXFVKINBVY 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Did Ian Fleming base James Bond Character on Christopher Lee?

  • @cynthiaalver
    @cynthiaalver 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great video! Would love to see more about individual contributions to the war. Thank you.

  • @jankostojkovic977
    @jankostojkovic977 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    Nice documentary.
    But he wasn't Croatian, he was Serbian.

    • @misha8896
      @misha8896 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yes, originally from Titel

    • @davidtuttle7556
      @davidtuttle7556 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      An easy mistake for us Westerners to make, not understanding Balkan curlures and nationalities have little to do with arbitrary borders and more to do with family, religion, and histories that are quite complicated. Please accept this mea culpa.

    • @AdamDylanFoley
      @AdamDylanFoley 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      so?

    • @fanroche8573
      @fanroche8573 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@AdamDylanFoley those differences are pretty essential to understanding the balkans and historic context

    • @Djoga100
      @Djoga100 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@davidtuttle7556 it literally says on internet when you type his name, how tfck he got it wrong,and now thousands of people will think he is croat...

  • @rebeccasullivan7965
    @rebeccasullivan7965 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Wow great video well worth watching... cheers

  • @Ranjanwatson
    @Ranjanwatson 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nicely narrated rich with research. Thank you for sharing.

  • @taylorlibby7642
    @taylorlibby7642 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think I've easily heard of at least a couple of dozen different "real James Bonds" over the years. A new one pops up about as often as someone comes out with a book naming a new Jack the Ripper suspect. 😂🤣

  • @earth7551
    @earth7551 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    No it was Christopher Lee

    • @jimihendrix991
      @jimihendrix991 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      myth...

    • @earth7551
      @earth7551 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@jimihendrix991 Lol no myth realty Lee was welcome when in the filming of
      The Howling 2 they were not allowed as soon as the town chiefs found out
      Christopher Lee was allowed there were granted permission he help liberate the town from nazis

  • @annehersey9895
    @annehersey9895 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Dushko WAS one of the XX Committee’s top agents but equal to Popov, was Agent Garbo, Juan Pujols Garcia who was awarded the Iron Cross first class AND an MBE from the British!

  • @caraelizabeth7307
    @caraelizabeth7307 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Would have said Sidney Reilly was the real 007 before watching this. Now he’s got competition!

  • @j.l.emerson592
    @j.l.emerson592 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The fictional James Bond/007 was a composite of several men who were double/triple agents during WWII. Popov played a large part in the espionage of WWII. BTW, this has been known for decades... Since maybe the 1960s?

  • @jamesjamerson7233
    @jamesjamerson7233 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great documentary ❤

  • @michaelpjeffries1521
    @michaelpjeffries1521 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He was an amalgamation of several people he met along the way. Name came from a church near hotel in Toronto St James & Bond. The Sinclair farmhouse was last of camp X to go in 64 in a training exercise by fire department. Erasing last evidrnce of its existence.

  • @accnp6
    @accnp6 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Duško was Serbian.

    • @thule505
      @thule505 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no he wasnt..croatian

  • @sekhem313
    @sekhem313 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    the REAL James Bond was an ornithologist - we wrote the book Birds of the West Indies. He regretted allowing his name to be used in public fiction.

    • @ThePrinceofallsayain
      @ThePrinceofallsayain 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Bruh they share the name but everyone knows the real bond in fiction is cooler than some bird geek

  • @stevewheatley243
    @stevewheatley243 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Excellent.👌

  • @PHamster
    @PHamster 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    He looks like Antenna Man

    • @woah6958
      @woah6958 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Who is that?😮

  • @camerondempster4147
    @camerondempster4147 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A man called Intrepid. William Stephenson

    • @kevinhall3449
      @kevinhall3449 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The True Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents is the factual story of Sir William, written by a fellow Winnipeger - Bill MacDonald 2001

  • @radoslavcelnik8821
    @radoslavcelnik8821 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ian Fleming may have based his stories on various agents, but the never-changing character of James Bond is definitely from Duško Popov.

  • @PopGoesTheology
    @PopGoesTheology 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Spoiler alert: Yes, he was.

    • @briancooper2112
      @briancooper2112 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bond was based on real spy Fleming met during ww2.

    • @skipmagil
      @skipmagil 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Oh no

    • @kayef5724
      @kayef5724 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No it wasn’t, it was Porfirio Rubirosa.

    • @RonaldPickering
      @RonaldPickering 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@kayef5724No. His name was Mark Renton from Leith, Edinburgh - Scotland.

    • @murderedcarrot9684
      @murderedcarrot9684 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wich one throws a shoe?

  • @nanabutner
    @nanabutner 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    To my way of thinking, Ian Fleming was writing about a world he not only knew, but was also a part of. How much is someone else--how much is Fleming--who knows, but the stories are still entertaining?

  • @kayef5724
    @kayef5724 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Damn no one here knows 007 history, Porfirio Rubirosa was his name. The original James Bond.

  • @janealla88
    @janealla88 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is there a movie about his life

  • @KentuckyBrad
    @KentuckyBrad 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Christopher lee was the real james bond

  • @troyc4487
    @troyc4487 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The real James Bond was Ian Fleming. He actually did try to take down Nazis in the gambling style of Casino Royale. And, he did conduct daring secret operations for Royal Naval Intelligence.

    • @paulthompsen
      @paulthompsen 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ,pp

    • @josephteller9715
      @josephteller9715 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Fleming was not. Fleming was mostly not a field agent, he ran field agents. His character was built as a composite off of several agents and assets that the government ran, and were carefully crafted to NOT break the official secrets act that all British Intelligence are bound to.

  • @BurgerTaco
    @BurgerTaco 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cat spotted at 5:14 😊

  • @kennethhoppe2259
    @kennethhoppe2259 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @ 2:58 looks like he had a lazy Eye.😊

  • @kevinhall3449
    @kevinhall3449 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Methinks Bond was way loosely based on ( Sir ) William Stephenson, Canadian.

  • @earlycat170
    @earlycat170 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Apart from not being British, Portfirio Rubirosa has my vote

  • @murderedcarrot9684
    @murderedcarrot9684 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The "Real" 007 was Carol Burnett. True Story.

    • @Kathy-ut9kf
      @Kathy-ut9kf 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Tim Conway the Ambassador of Misinformation 😅

  • @ToplicaSRB
    @ToplicaSRB 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love how they manage to spin it and say he was croatian. Amazing historical accuracy. I wonder how they manage to conclude that he is Croatian, for a person, whose parents are Serbian, who was born in Titel (then Austria-Hungary, now Serbia), who did live in Dubrovnik which was then part of Yugoslavia, finished highschool in Paris and law school in Belgrade, and then lived abroad. Its not even debatable (as for some historical figures), its plain fact.

  • @nicknamedude
    @nicknamedude 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is even better than Bond

  • @bastiaanstapelberg9018
    @bastiaanstapelberg9018 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No the real Bond was a Dutch soldier Peter Tazelaar......see wiki.

  • @dartvader9939
    @dartvader9939 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    J e Hoover was a narcissist

  • @josiasguiomar2504
    @josiasguiomar2504 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Double Cross Eddie Chapman was the "real" James Bond.

  • @mikepravica2140
    @mikepravica2140 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Popov was Serbian, not Croatian.

  • @dushy35
    @dushy35 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    cool name

  • @safiremorningstar
    @safiremorningstar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The microdot is not that well let's put it this way my grandfather who was with the French underground and a photographer used his photographic skills to create tiny little film I mean we're talking micro-sized pieces that went inside a pin which would then be passed off by his underground partner and the woman who was keeping his family protected and that woman let's say there was something wrong with the pin and would pass it off to whoever it was at the market and the pin would be handed back minus the piece of film that was inside literally it's the size of what a Microdot would be and considering the chemicals he used to create the film that was smaller than a portrait picture would be in a tiny little cavity you can make out one of the pieces because the corroded the back of where it had sat.

    • @giorgosarifoglu953
      @giorgosarifoglu953 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@safiremorningstar the microdot was used from 37' and onwards and is still used in many secret service departments because you can't hack it ...its old technology and still useful

  • @robinbrowne5419
    @robinbrowne5419 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sean Connery was the real James Bond. Everybody else is an imposter. 🙂👍

    • @nanabutner
      @nanabutner 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😄😄. I too love Sean Connery as James Bond!

    • @robinbrowne5419
      @robinbrowne5419 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nanabutner Search youtube for
      All 24 James Bond theme songs
      It will bring back some memories :-)

  • @brianpham8877
    @brianpham8877 หลายเดือนก่อน

    More like a bounty hunter. . serves no master.

  • @johnjacobs1625
    @johnjacobs1625 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    kool

  • @katherinecooper6159
    @katherinecooper6159 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I prefer Sean Connery

  • @RedRepublicanArmy
    @RedRepublicanArmy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He is CODY BANKS.

  • @GiseleLeclerc
    @GiseleLeclerc 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    it was a Canadian who was the real James Bond character

    • @mustangmanmustangman4596
      @mustangmanmustangman4596 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you are the only person right! even his family didnt know

  • @AndyHoward
    @AndyHoward 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "I'm going to create an agency and make the Germans pay for it!"

    • @maugustyniak
      @maugustyniak 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ha! Unlike a certain "Stable genius" politician, he succeeded. Great comment.

  • @safiremorningstar
    @safiremorningstar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The funny thing about the microdot is my grandfather the film and other things that he was sending were the size of a pinky finger nail so I guess it was bigger than a micro Dot.

  • @lukicdrazen3929
    @lukicdrazen3929 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dusan Popov was Serbian

  • @lukicdrazen3929
    @lukicdrazen3929 หลายเดือนก่อน

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Duško Popov
    OBE
    Duško Popov, 1941
    Born Dušan Popov
    10 July 1912
    Titel, Austria-Hungary (present-day Serbia)
    Died 18 August 1981 (aged 69)
    Opio, Alpes-Maritimes, France
    Nationality
    SerbianYugoslavBritish
    Alma mater University of Belgrade
    University of Freiburg
    Occupation(s) Lawyer, businessman, intelligence officer
    Spouse(s) Janine Ducasse (1946-1961; divorced)
    Jill Jonsson (1962-1981; his death)
    Children 4
    Parent(s) Milorad Popov, Zora Popov
    Awards Iron Cross
    Order of the British Empire
    Espionage activity
    Allegiance Kingdom of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
    United Kingdom United Kingdom
    Service branch VOA, MI6, Abwehr
    Service years 1940-1945
    Codename Duško
    Codename Ivan
    Codename Tricycle
    Codename Scoot
    Operations World War II
    Dušan "Duško" Popov OBE (Serbian Cyrillic: Душко Попов; 10 July 1912 - 10 August 1981) was a Serbian, a double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II.

  • @JasonGarber-n9y
    @JasonGarber-n9y 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ha! I bet they wished they woulda listened to him about pearl harbor ! But also my view is that england needed america to join the war to beat the naziz and a attack on pearl harbor would been the perfect reason for the americans to join the war , the truth in war is always protected by a bodyguard of lies . "winston churchhill"

    • @Mike-hu3pp
      @Mike-hu3pp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The USA doesn't like to listen to "foreigners" because they are always right. I've been yelled at by a few Americans for my accent and not pronouncing words "correctly". The A or H bombs wouldn't have been built without European ingenuity.

  • @rogersmith3405
    @rogersmith3405 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Popov was a Serb

  • @Djoga100
    @Djoga100 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This guy was Serbian, not Croatian, get your facts straight! Who knows how many other mistakes is there all over your channel

    • @dbt7624
      @dbt7624 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And you get your hygiene straight I know you get zero sun and smell like mayo making a comment like that.

  • @JasonGarber-n9y
    @JasonGarber-n9y 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love that fact that we used the same tactics to mislead the germans as they had to to france we he invaded..... And american russian and british being squeezed on three fronts 😮😅😂

  • @helenstillman-dk7jm
    @helenstillman-dk7jm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ian fleming didnt even write it the real 007 did & paid ian fleming to say he did cos of his bro - the real 007 was round well b4 ww2

  • @Mr.KaganbYaltrk
    @Mr.KaganbYaltrk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He wasn't handsome though

  • @GameandFoodTech
    @GameandFoodTech 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪should be recognized as separate country.

  • @ceda666
    @ceda666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Is Novak Djokovic croat? Tesla is a croat? Every serbian is a croat? They just don't know...never did, but who cares.
    Yugoslavia is a serbian state project, same as USSR was russian one. People that lived in that Frankenstein country were not known by their nationality until the breakup of the country in the 1991-95.

    • @paulenka5
      @paulenka5 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ok war criminal.