Ian Fleming's novel plan to outwit the Nazis

There is a new exhibition opening next week at The Imperial War Museum
in London about Ian Fleming and James Bond. The Times has quite an 
interesting mixture of articles etc. about this. One particular item
has some slight relevance to BP...:


From The Times
April 7, 2008

Ian Fleming's novel plan to outwit the Nazis
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Ben Hoyle, Arts Reporter

The plot cooked up by Ian Fleming in September 1940, more than a decade 
before he created James Bond, was so brilliantly preposterous that it can 
now be seen as the prototype 007 mission.

Fleming, in his role as a naval intelligence officer during the Second 
World War, was the architect of Operation Ruthless, a daring scheme to 
seize a German codebook that may have inspired the plot to From Russia 
with Love.

His plan, involving a staged plane crash and disguised commandos, is 
revealed in full at a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.

Operation Ruthless was composed after codebreakers at Bletchley Park 
realised that they could not efficiently decipher messages sent by the 
German navy without copies of their conversion tables. Fleming hatched a 
plan to "obtain the loot"..../snip/


http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article3694989.ece

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/specials/for_your_eyes_only/