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468: 549:, said that Ustinov was discovered by another member of the British intelligence community a short time before his death, selling books from his library to supplement his income. According to Wright, Ustinov's pension had been overlooked, and he was almost penniless. Wright states that someone from MI5 did attempt to rectify the situation, but that Ustinov died a short time later and he (Wright) did not know whether or not the problem was corrected. 27: 366:
There is a family photograph that shows Magdalena von Ustinov (née Hall) with her husband and their children, including Jona/Jonah, who disliked his forename so much that he chose the nickname "Klop" ("Bedbug" in Russian) by which he was known to his friends and relatives for the rest of his life.
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His political opinions gave difficulties to Ustinov with the new Nazi government almost immediately. In 1935, the conflict culminated when Ustinov refused to prove that he was not of Jewish descent ("
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before he moved to London. That peripatetic life engendered in Ustinov a cosmopolitan attitude, which made him averse to any kind of nationalism.
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for his services. His brother Peter von Ustinow joined the same unit and was killed in action on 13 July 1917. After the war Ustinov worked for
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said it was "priceless intelligence, possibly the most important human-source intelligence Britain received in the prewar period".
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He also tried to convince the British government to adopt a more robust attitude towards Nazi Germany. Seven months before the
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Death registered (as Iona Ustinow) in the Cirencester Registration District in the fourth quarter of 1962.
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was a title before 1919, but now is regarded as part of the surname. It is translated as
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in 1939, he was able to acquire the German plans. He later regretted that Prime Minister
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who had married Magdalena Hall, then living in Jaffa, the daughter of the Ethiopian
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Meanwhile, he had begun working for the British intelligence service
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Aethiopica, International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
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Katharina Hall, also known as Welette-Iyesus and her husband,
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Klop: Britain’s Most Ingenious Secret Agent by Peter Day
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The Bedbug: Klop Ustinov: Britain's Most Ingenious Spy
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
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His son was the actor Sir 410:, Ustinov served in the German Army's 7: 958:"BBC One - Parkinson, Peter Ustinov" 49:adding citations to reliable sources 983:. Spartacus Educational Publishers. 755:"Fliegerabteilung 250 (Artillerie)" 533:Ustinov died on 1 December 1962 in 429:, the first German news agency, in 1328:German people of Ethiopian descent 1005:from the original on 15 July 2020. 416:Flieger-Abteilung (Artillerie) 250 14: 1135:. New York: Biteback Publishing. 502:(then out of power). Another was 1348:Grenoble Alpes University alumni 1333:German people of Russian descent 1057:Lahr, John (25 September 1977). 25: 1343:German people of Jewish descent 789:"Lt Peter Von Ustinov KIA 1917" 394:, in France, and worked at the 36:needs additional citations for 1114:. Knopf Doubleday Publishing. 350:St. Chrischona Pilgrim Mission 1: 614:Helmuth James Graf von Moltke 596:Graf Helmuth James von Moltke 427:Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau 1190:. 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