Lisa von Pott

was an Austrian espionage agent, sculptor, secretary to the poet Rabindranath Tagore in the 1920s and 30s, and in 1928 the first instructor in sculpture at Kala Bhavana in Bengal.

According to a witness, von Pott later admitted to the Russians that she had denounced to the Gestapo the members of a dinner party she had attended, resulting in them all being arrested and several being sent to concentration camps.

[6][7] There she taught Ramkinkar Baij and Sudhir Khastgir, both, like Bose, members of the Bengal school of art which was closely associated with the cause of Indian nationalism.

[3][10] The British security services said she "moved in the best Austrian circles, and was so skilful that persons of the highest intelligence did not suspect her till she was denounced.

Von Pott was also arrested and an interpreter warned Wiesbauer against her and said she had admitted acting as a Gestapo agent for money and to have denounced the dinner party guests to them.

She was then seen at the ski resort of Kitzbühel in the company of French journalists, and in September 1945 was staying as a guest of Maria von Einem at her castle near Schladming.