Supposedly Bergman, as a spy for the Lovian Secret Service, was sent to Brussels in 1944, during the Second World War, to investigate the German nazis. He allegedly was arrested on suspicion of being a Jew. After having been held in a Belgian prisoner camp, he returned to Lovia in 1945. In the early 1950s, Bergman was writing an autobiography retelling his experiences as a secret service employee. Supposedly "the service" had the manuscript stolen, his house burned down, and killed him in a car crash. Bergman's life is the basis of the 1963 movie The Spy, and the 2011 film with the same name.