Ian Fleming had seen a lot of behind the scenes of the intelligence organisations of England and the Americans. He’d seen how they operated at the very top. He’d played a key role in helping the Americans to get their intelligence organisation up and running, but now he was going to do his first work in the field.

Then he had to go to the spy training school where secret agents are taught how to kill, how to blow up bridges and how to do all of those other things you’ve seen in the James Bond movies – this was for real.

Tag words: Ian Fleming; James Bond; British Security Co-Ordination; William Stephenson; Type B Cipher Machine; Baron Oshima; Adolf Hitler; Pearl Harbour; Admiral Kimmel; Casino Royale; Duexiéme Bureau; Le Chiffre; Baron Ismay; Major-General Sir Colin Gubbins; Lord Beaverbrook; Special Operations Executive; Winston Churchill; Dunkirk; Clementine Churchill; Ernest Cuneo; Wild Bill Donovan; OSS; FBI; J Edgar Hoover; Robert Jackson; Paul McCartney; A.J. Taylor; Camp X; the Farm; McKenzie King; Bickham Sweet-Escott; Ivar Bryce; Goldeneye;