Re: Ian Fleming's novel plan to outwit the Nazis

On 8 Apr 08, at 16:41, Martin Postranecky wrote:

> 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
> --------------------------------------------
> 
> 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/

I believe that the only reason it did not proceed was that they could not get 
a volunteer pilot willing to crashland a captured German aircraft in the sea.


Eugene L Griessel                  
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