viii) also seems to be TRICYCLE. Same book. Popov was setting up a scheme for the Germans to pay their British agents, but the funds would actually go to the British. Once he'd convinced the Germans, he sent a coded telegram to the British for Eric Glass, a Jewish theatrical impressario in London. But he actually addressed it to Eric Sand. "Erik Sand" was the name on the account in the US that the money was going through. No Eric Sand existed, and the Germans could have picked up on this and wondered about the telegram.

Oh and then he used the money to humiliate a showy Lithuanian at baccarat and inspired part of Casino Royale.