FIDDLER On The Roof star Chaim Topol carried out missions for Israeli secret service Mossad around the world, his family have revealed.
The Israeli actor whose most famous role was as Tevye the milkman in the 1971 movie musical, died last month aged 87.
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His son Omer said: “Dad was involved in secret missions on behalf of the Mossad.”
And Topol is not the only celeb on 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, his younger daughter Tina has 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 capacity to courier a body – a living person, you know, not a corpse, but a diplomat – or papers.”
But she said the singer, who died in 1998, never revealed any names.
Greta Garbo
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THE Stockholm-born film star spied on a Swedish millionaire for Britain’s MI6.
Biographer David Bret said: “There had never been anyone in Hollywood as secretive and therefore as capable of discretion.”
Uri Geller
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A 2013 BBC documentary said the Israeli-British magician had worked for Mossad and the CIA as a “psychic spy” for decades.
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Geller later said the claims were “absolutely true” but his missions will stay “top secret”.
Roald Dahl
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IN World War Two the writer was posted to Washington, where he is reported to have supplied intelligence to MI6.
Dahl is said to have regularly met President Roosevelt and channelled information to Churchill.
Marlene Dietrich
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IN the Second World War US authorities suspected the Berlin-born star of being a Nazi spy and she was watched.
But Marlene also spied for the FBI, “collecting observations about subversive activities in Europe”.
Audrey Hepburn
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THE half-Dutch actress worked with the Dutch Resistance while a teenager and carried messages and food to downed Allied pilots in 1944.
She was also said to have helped deliver Resistance newspapers.
Harry Houdini
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THE legendary escapologist is said to have helped UK and US spy agencies as German and Russian fans unwittingly told him First World War secrets at parties.
The CIA website carries a tribute.
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