Truth is often stronger and more disturbing than fiction.
A British secret agent named James Bond will have been sent on a mission behind the Iron Curtain two years after the release of the first film with Agent 007 - the
infamous
Doctor No
starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress - according to the recently released archives of Polish Institute of National Memory, IPN.
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To have a perfect cover, this James Albert Bond arrived in Warsaw on February 18, 1964 to officially occupy a post of archivist at the British embassy, indicate unambiguously the documents found of the service of Communist counter-espionage.
A very careful James Bond
According to the intelligence services of the Polish state then still under the yoke of the Comintern, this Mr. Bond, born in 1928, looked little like his fictitious counterpart, best known for his fondness for vodka-martini and women.
Polish agents noted that James Albert Bond was "
interested in women
" but was "
very cautious
" and made no contact with Polish citizens, documents posted on Facebook this week said.
According to the IPN, he was "
a low level agent with a high profile name
" - the Communist agents also knew the fictional hero.
Records also indicate that James Bond attempted to visit "
military installations
" in Bialystok and Olsztyn
in October and November 1964
in eastern Poland near the then border with the Union. Soviet.
Apparently without resounding success, the real James Bond left Poland on January 21, 1965.
The writer Ian Fleming, author of the series, and himself a former British agent, has always indicated that his hero owes his name to the American ornithologist James Bond, of whom he had a book on the birds of the Caribbean.
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