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                                             September 5, 2005

                                        Reading John Pearson's
An overview of some of the              "The Life of Ian Fleming" (1966)
connections of the wartime              In the Bantam paperback edition
Fleming:

(1)  Works for Admiral Godfrey,
     head of British Naval                BONDED_TIGHTLY
     Intelligence as his Personal
     Assistant.

(2)  Godfrey is interested in tighter
     liaison with US intelligence.

(3)  They travel to the US in 1941,
     going by way of Lisbon             CASINO_MUNDANE

(4)  Hoover brushes him off. Because
     he's already got British liaison      (Didn't Godfrey 
     through a Sir William Stephenson,     know that?)          
     who has an office in New York.             
        
(4)  The Brits want one agency to deal          
     with, because US intelligence is         
     too fragmented.                         (And British         
                                              Intelligence isn't?)
     Stephenson pushes for what          
     becomes the OSS, under his                
     friend General 'Wild Bill'                        
     Donovan, "Roosevelt's former                     "June 18, 1941" 
     legal aide".  (p.105)               
                                              
(5)  General Donovan has Fleming    
     write the charter for the            COUGHING_UP_FLEMING
     OSS. Or so Pearson argues.   
     
(6)  Some time later, on another
     wartime visit, Fleming sits in
     on a spy training class.             FINAL_ASSASSINATION


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