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  1. Ben Macintyre _ A Spy Among Friends: Kim

    In a plot that smacks of James Bond {and has all the hallmarks of an Elliott ruse}, a Dutch agent named Peter Tazelaar was put ashore near the seafront casino at Scheveningen, wearing full evening dress and covered with a rubber suit to keep him dry. Once ashore, Tazelaar peeled off his outer suit and began to "mingle with the crowd on the front" in his dinner jacket, which had been sprinkled with brandy to reinforce the "party-goer's image." Formally dressed and alcoholically perfumed, Tazelaar successfully made it past the German guards and picked up a radio previously dropped by parachute. The echo of 007 may not be coincidental: among the young blades of British intelligence at this time was a young officer in naval intelligence named Ian Fleming, the future author of the James Bond books. Ian Fleming and Nicholas Elliott had both experienced the trauma of being educated at Durnford School; they became close friends.
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  2. Ben Macintyre _ For Your Eyes Only: Ian

    In this, they echoed the views of a generation brought up to think of Britain as Great, but now doomed in peacetime to watch the American ascendancy, decolonisation, queues, bureaucracy, socialism and other perceived indignities as the Empire declined.
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