So who was the man, or men, who were the true life inspirations for Ian Fleming’s James Bond? Ian Fleming denied that it was him. The head of British spying operations in the United States, a man known by the code name Intrepid – William Stephenson – said that when Ian Fleming was sent to boot camp he hesitated when he was ordered to kill – so not the stuff of a 00 agent licensed to kill. 

Bond’s coldness to women, certainly in his books and in his early movies, is definitely Ian Fleming who was severely damaged when the first serious love of his life, and he, broke up.

I talked about Ian’s brother, Peter, who was an awesomely famous explorer before World War II and a man who played an important part in training and conducting undercover operations in German occupied Europe, but he doesn’t seem to have been the man either. So let’s look deeper into the mystery of who was the true James Bond.

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