Since musical star Chaim Topol turned out to be an Israeli spy, we reveal the other celebs who came in from the cold
FIDDLER On The Roof star Chaim Topol has been conducting missions for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency around the world, his family has revealed.
The Israeli actor, whose most famous role was the milkman Tevye in the 1971 film musical, died last month at the age of 87.
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His son Omer said: “Father was involved in secret missions on behalf of Mossad.”
And Topol isn’t the only celebrity in a spy agency’s books, as Sarah Arnold reveals other A-listers with alleged undercover roles.
Frank Sinatra
OLD Blue Eyes apparently worked as a secret courier for the CIA, as his younger daughter Tina previously claimed in a TV interview.
She recalled, “Because he controlled his own air travel, [the CIA] would ask him and many others with that ability to cure a corpse – a living person, you know, not a corpse but a diplomat – or papers.”
But she said the singer, who died in 1998, never revealed names.
Greta Garbo
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THE Stockholm-born film star has spied on a Swedish millionaire for Britain’s MI6.
Biographer David Bret said, “There has never been anyone in Hollywood who has been so secretive and therefore so discretionary.”
Uri Geller
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A 2013 BBC documentary said the Israeli-British magician worked for the Mossad and CIA as a “psychic spy” for decades.
Geller later said the claims were “absolutely true” but his missions would remain “top secret.”
Roald Dahl
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DURING World War II the author was posted to Washington, where he had reportedly provided information to MI6.
Dahl is said to have met regularly with President Roosevelt and relayed information to Churchill.
Marlene Dietrich
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DURING World War II, US authorities suspected the Berlin-born Star of being a Nazi spy, and she was under surveillance.
But Marlene also spied for the FBI “to gather observations of subversive activity in Europe.”
Audrey Hepburn
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THE half-Dutch actress worked for the Dutch resistance as a teenager, bringing messages and food to downed Allied pilots in 1944.
She is also said to have helped deliver resistance newspapers.
Harry Houdini
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THE legendary escapologist is said to have helped British and American intelligence agencies when German and Russian fans unwittingly shared World War I secrets with him at parties.
The CIA website carries an homage.
