So the actual Kaplan was technically...
Eve? Also, what was the relevance of the figurine they bought holding lots of film? Didn't get that.
shareWell, yes...and no. As The Professor says:
"Our non-existent decoy, George Kaplan, created to divert suspicion from our actual agent, has fortuitously become a live decoy...We created George Kaplan and labored successfully to convince Vandamm that this was our agent hot on his trail for a desperately important reason...If we make the slightest move to suggest there's no such agent as George Kaplan, give any hint to Vandamm he's pursuing a decoy instead of our own agent, then our agent, working right under Vandamm's very nose, will immediately face suspicion, exposure and assassination."
So there's no "actual Kaplan," but there is an actual agent: Eve.
Also, what was the relevance of the figurine they bought holding lots of film?It concealed microfilm containing, as The Professor vaguely put it, "Government secrets, perhaps." Some sort of information that could compromise national security in other words, which needn't be any more specific than that; a plot device Hitchcock called a "MacGuffin" (something important to the characters in the film, but not to the audience watching it).
Poe! You are...avenged! share