He frequently changes his venue and his lures. “The Trout Fisher casts patiently all day. Commander, produced a document for his boss which was entitled the Trout Memo. When World War II began, Fleming, newly promoted to the rank of Lt. Fleming wrote plans during the war which read like his later novels Fleming’s idea of using a corpse to mislead the Germans was used to create Major William Martin in Operation Mincemeat. Here is the story of the extraordinary life which unfolded from there. He was serving in that capacity when Hitler invaded Poland, Great Britain declared war, and World War II engulfed Europe.

His role included acting as liaison with the intelligence services and the Prime Minister’s office.

In 1939 he entered into government service as the personal aide to Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence gaining a code name (17F) and a commission in the Royal Navy Reserve as a Lieutenant. He consoled himself with several affairs, usually with the wives of other men. He initially worked as a journalist, a position gained through the influence of his mother, and later moved into banking in 1933, a profession which he found insufferable. Ian Fleming at his Jamaica home, Goldeneye. The disease indicated conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman. He left Eton to attend the military school at Sandhurst, which he also left early, having contracted a sexually transmitted disease. While at Eton Fleming established his life-long pattern with women, one which would later be endowed upon his character, James Bond. Fleming was raised with three brothers, one older than he, and a half-sister born out of one of his mother’s affairs. Winston Churchill wrote his obituary in The Times. His father fought and died in the First World War. Ian Fleming was born with the proverbial silver spoon in 1908, to a wealthy and politically influential family.

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