Let's see who was a real prototype "Agent 007". James Bond's adventures have long been the classics of world cinema. Hazardous adventures, the amourn connections of the secret agent for several decades not tired admire the enthusiastic spectators. Meanwhile, the on-screen hero had a real prototype operating on the side of British intelligence.

In the last film about James Bond "Skyfall Coordinates" "The action unfolds in Macau casino. Mandatory tribute to the origins. Aston Martin, beautiful women and, most importantly, Casino: In Saga O 007, invented by the writer, Jan Fleming, is based on the Estoril casino in Portugal. It was behind these tables on the Atlantic coast during the Second World War, Fleming first saw in the action of James Bond.

However, his real name was Popov, Dusko Popov.

Serb, from a rich family, born in 1912, studied in Germany at the University of Farnburg. After he began to recruit German intelligence - in the face of a university friend - he went to Belgrade, where he went to the British Embassy, \u200b\u200bdeciding to work for the English MI6, becoming a double agent. Popov was a successful lawyer, with genuine interests of business in London and Lisbon. Therefore, like many of his colleagues, including Fleming, who worked on Her Majesty, Popov was in Neutral Portugal in Cascais, suburb of Lisbon, the capital of spies.

The neutral country is an ideal espionage environment during the war. The official departments of the warring parties were well funded their intelligence machines. During the war years, the whole fifty special services operated here. Their agents were "cameras, microphones and computers" intelligence. The meeting place was the largest casino of Europe "Estoril Palcio".

But "official spies" was superior to the army of freelance lovers: waiters, cleaners, taxi drivers and shopkeepers, who looked, listened and reported information to the one who pays. In the documents of American intelligence in 1943, it was reported that "a strikingly high proportion of the population work on one or several intelligence services." The espionage fever embraced Lisbon, becoming for local residents and something like a pastime style.

The American Correspondent Polly Pibodi noted that the visitors looking like spies from time to time were delayed in bars and cafes, in this another part of the clientele with intense curiousness was waiting for the development of events or even collisions. It was difficult to say who of them was actually a spy, and who are just visitors to the cafe. In addition, there was another group that watched everyone. The Portuguese Secret Police not only arrested spies (more often by the Germans), but also performed the arbitrators of the parties. Moreover, it was less interested in foreign workers of residents than the Portuguese, who worked on them.

The elite of spies was double agents. Although after the end of the war, many of these people were dissolved in an unknown direction, some of them entered the sphere of folklore.

Dusan Popov

For example - Garbo, he is Juan Puyol Garcia whose career began as a spy began even more strange than it could come up with. At the beginning of the war, he possessed firm convictions about the good and evil and the talent of the marital hand.

Spaniard Garbo wanted to be a spy, because he did not like the Germans very much. He independently contacted the British embassy in Madrid, where he was not completely believed. Then he contacted the German military intelligence Abper, which he was so believed that they sent him to rent money in pounds sterling in the Portuguese bank. In Portugal, he bought it, or he stole his entrance visa to Argentina, and took her with himself to Madrid, where he suggested to Abbavra to go to Britain through Argentina. Ambiver issued him invisible ink, codes and $ 3000 books.

But Garbo did not go to England. He stayed in Lisbon, where he bought a map, a guidebook and the Anglo-French phrasebook of military terms (because it does not speak English) and used them together with their unique abilities to lies to compile reports to the Germans about the movement of the British. Which completely invented. But it did it so well that one of his "reports" about the collection of the British fleet in Malta forced the Germans to send a convoy to the interception, passing the interest of MI6 to the "new spy network".

For six months, the German Spy Harbo "In England" acted, performing the feats to compile "reports on the movement of the enemy" from Lisbon in the name of Fateland. His reports signed by the pseudonym "Mr. Smith-Jones" have eased very valuable strategic information. He conscientiously studied old magazines, leaning out from there data on the plans of the British army. Once, reading in a tourist directory about the tense movement on one of the railways lines, Garcia immediately gave this area a special purpose in the island defense system. While he received generous remuneration from the Abver, the MI6 could not establish his personality.

And only if he declared to the American Embassy in Lisbon, he was recognized, recruited and brought to England. Here, under direct control MI6 and "the present work began." The imitation of the agent network was built from the "American soldier, the Dutch stewardess, the nationalist from Wales and the lubricant typist of one important government agency", which began to merge the Germans to disinformation of the highest quality. And if at the beginning, the harbo rude was quite funny, by 1944, the subtleties and psychology of his reports made it for the Abver the most reliable of agents. And a very valuable asset for the allies.

MI6 made Garbo Disinformation Center to cover the landing of Anglo-Saxons in Normandy. So Garbo turned out to be one of the most successful spies of the Second World War. And showed the level of the Abver. It is impossible to call the activities of the Nazi intelligence explicitly subversive, but the fact that the head of the German intelligence Admiral Wilhelm Kanaris participated in conspiracies against Hitler, says much.

Abman was far from the most effective intelligence service. Meanwhile, Abveru still managed to penetrate almost every aspect of Portuguese life, from government departments before the brothels. The Germans listened to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Salazar office, bribed officials and had a much wider network of informants than the British. And they paid to their agents 10 times more. What could not be happy to please German spies - for whom they would not really work. Including all the same sashana Popov.

At the same time, the declassified reports say that Dusko never missed the opportunity to spoil the Germans a combat mood. Once he even said that Germany would lose this war due to the low moral spirit of the people and the economic crisis.

In Lisbon, Dusko Popov worked together with a no less bright agent Karst, who received pleasure from espionage. Alone, each of them was actually a spy cinematic cliché. Popov (the code name "Ivan"), drove secretly in the car Karstov from his Moorish villa in Cascais. He also taught Popov how to avoid surveys, secrets, handling hidden cameras and coding, sending messages through his personal secretary, which became his mistress and a casino game partner.

The head of the Iberian branch of the MI6 and the direct chief of Popov by the British was Kim Philby, who was at the same time a Russian agent, later fled to the Soviet Union. With his colleagues from MI5 - Gaam Berdjess, Anthony BLANT, John Cainkrosc (MI6) and Donald McLin (MID) now known as the Cambridge Five. They were given a Popov code name "tricycle" ("tricycle"), apparently because of his tendency to group sex.

He drove his mistresses in the EnglishBar Cimas restaurant, and spent the evening in the Estoril casino itself. It was there in 1941, Fleming saw how Popov loses money to the casino, the money allocated for the task is 50 thousand dollars (more than one and a half million at today's course). However, Popov bluffing against the Lithuanian held by the bank. Due to this, he got a major role in the pages of the "Casino Royal", the novel, which Fleming wrote, based on Portuguese memories.

Dusan Popov himself wrote memoirs "Spy-Counterpin": "I was told that Yang Fleming said that he wrote off his James Bond with me. Perhaps this is so. I communicated with Fleming in Lisbon in a few days before my departure to the United States. He accompanied me everywhere and, perhaps, embodied in the book what happened once at night. "

The fact is that Dusko Popov got 80 thousand dollars from Abver, which were intended to create a German network in the United States. And decided to remove the Fleming.

"Probably, Fleming spoil about this business ... I left my room at Palacio Hotel and went down to the hall. In my pocket of my evening costume lay a thick pack of banknotes. I preferred to wear money with me instead of attracting attention to them, leaving the hotel's safe. Noticing Fleming, I did not give this value. Then I went to the bar to drink in front of dinner - and again encountered him. He dined in the same restaurant as me. All this attracted my attention, and I, deciding to test my suspicions, deliberately leisurely entered the park leading to Estoril Casino. Fleming followed me. The presence of a person from Mi-6 I have "on the tail" at that moment it was funny, I knew that he could guard only money, but not me. English intelligence has enough reason to trust me. The secrets that I carried in my head were much more valuable than 80 thousand dollars ...

We walked around the casino halls, my "shadow" and I, watching the game. And then I do not know what the hell in me was settled: perhaps the permanent presence of a Fleming with my back so I worked on me. But when one of the players in my favorite Bete Noire began to bluff once again, I uncredit announced: "Fifty thousand dollars!" "And, by counting the desired amount, put on a green loaf-sized bundle of bills. All quiet, I glanced at Fleming. His face was discounted from anger.

It was obvious that there was no such money player with me. "I suppose, I turned to the main croupier," that the casino will support the bet of this person. " He shook his head, answered with refusal. In a feigned anger, I crushed money from the table and putting them back into your pocket, said: "I hope you bring it to the attention of the manager and in the future this situation will not happen again." Fleming was rewarded for his excitement. His face broke into a satisfied smile. "

If you trace the movement of Yana Fleming the world, starting in 1938, the routes will seem mysterious. Here it becomes like an example of an older brother by the Reuters agency reporter. Then he goes to Moscow on the task of the editorial office. After some time, he again rides in the USSR, where he works as a correspondent of London Times. At the same time, Flemming collects information for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Britain - since in the summer of 1933 he becomes the right hand of the head of the intelligence English service MI6 Stewart Menzis.

And the head of MI6 in London continued to keep Popov for a super secret role - receipt of information from Canary about the plans of the overthrow of Hitler.

After the German invasion of Yugoslavia, Popov's cover as a businessman in Lisbon ceases to work, then the Germans find it another task - under the cover of the employee of the Yugoslav Ministry of Information based in New York, create a German agent network. For this, he is improving his image of the playboy. During his trip by plane from Lisbon to New York, his pockets were filled with spyware with micrographs, crystals to create invisible ink in a glass of wine used for the Book of Virginia Book Wolf "Night and Day" and with 800,000-thousand dollars in cash ( mentioned above).

In New York, he stops at Waldorf Astoria and on the very first day while walking in Manhattan buys a BUICK convertible with red leather seats, - who drove into his eyes in the showcase of the car dealership. After that, he removes the apartments and spends $ 12,000 on the situation and the Chinese butler. At the same time, he communicates with stunning women, such as the French actress Simon Simon and does not fulfill any work. As a result, he causes persistent disgust from the Director of FBI Edgar Hoover (to which Popov British "was leased"), and it is also not able to find a single German spy in the United States. His expenses grow and the Germans refuse to send him more money.

As a result, Gouver pointed Popov at the door, ignoring the dossier received by Dushan Popov from the Germans, about the upcoming Rutting on the Pearl Harbor (it was very likely that it did it intentionally - with the point that the Finelita wanted to make the United States to enter the war). And MI6 had to withdraw him to London.

Although during his stay in New York Popov did not achieve results for the Germans, they give him another $ 25,000 for return. But MI6 is not particularly angry with him. Later, the head of MI5 in his memoirs was noted "Popov's ability to convince the Germans of the coarse force of the personality were wonderful", which did it an invaluable channel for the transfer of disinformation, attractive for the Germans and for the British.

As a agent plan, he participated in the organization "Pseudo escape" of 150 Yugoslav military officials in the UK. During the path through France, German spies were introduced into the group, and then, as soon as they found themselves in Gibraltar, they all became double agents of Britain. This plan has significantly strengthened the network of Agents Popov and allowed him to meet the brother Ivo, with whom she hoped to return to England together. He did not know that he was a double agent, although both worked for the British.

While Yang Fleming followed Popov, another British novelist made his notes for another secret agent under the code name acutely, which, together with Garbo and Tricycle, became an excellent material for creating a literary nature. Graham Green also worked with Kim Philby for a short time in the British exploration office while they are tormented by a spy, which acted as a double agent, but was not under their control. The MI6 found that she sharply has direct access to the German Supreme Command and its ability to remain undisclosed, which was very dangerous.

Information about acutely, he also Paul Fidrmuc, were fragmentary, but the British said that he supplied the German exploration of false information. Wild and extravagantly false. Especially annoyed and it was enough to plan his murder MI6 - that the high-ranking German military came to Lisbon to consult him and receive reports "so confidential, which could only be obtained with direct contact." Reports that in British intelligence were preferred to call "bad humor" and "fantastically wrong." Meanwhile, the forecasts were sharply frighteningly accurate - according to the information he received from the staff of Field Marshal Montgomery headquarters, the landing should pass on the Cherbourg Peninsula that he said to the Germans, perhaps, not knowing that he did one of the most important intelligence reports of the second half of the second World War.

But the Germans did not take any action on this news, as they listened to the "more convincing" reports of Garbo, who reported that Normandy is only distracting maneuver, and the real invasion will be held in Pa de Calais. Both spies survived the war, although about Paul Fidrmuc is not much known after he was released by the American authorities. They did not find anything that could be blamed, was not a member of the Nazi party, and not involved in war crimes.

More corresponding to the image of the hero of the spy novel, Garbo first faked documents about his death, and then disappeared by Venezuela, where he held a souvenir shop for almost 40 years, until his death in 1988.

After the war, Popov has been cooled. He died in 1981 at the age of 69, leaving after himself three children and his wife Jil, a 30-year-old Swede, who would have looked good with the most different James Bonds in all casinos of the world.

All of them fought, as they could, for the happiness of private owners of the Bank of England. It is not by chance that the activities of British intelligence are funded from its Majesty's personal funds. (Secret Intelligence Service (Eng. Secret Intelligence Service, SIS), MI-6 (Eng. Military Intelligence, MI6) is the state body of the British External Intelligence Britain. Before the adoption of the Parliament on the Intelligence Service law in 1994, there was no legal framework for its existence. and activity, and its very existence was not confirmed by the Government of the United Kingdom.)

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He is always beautiful, wit, sexy. It moves money, goes on the most expensive cars, speaks in all languages \u200b\u200bof the world, knows everything. I can, too, everything. Ah, yes, any woman is ready to sell the soul to the devil for spending at least some time in his bed. All this Bond. James Bond. Such perfection of the male polo was allowed to play only 6 actors (there were still two Barry Nelson, David Naiven in unofficial films 1954 and 1967, but then they are separate post). Portrait of Bond, made by his author, Jan Fleming Bond number 1. Scottish. Sean Connery Played in films about Bond: 1. "Dr. Know". (1962) 2. "From Russia with love." (1963) 3. Goldfinger. (1964) 4. "Ball Lightning". (1965) 5. " You live only twice. "(1967) 6." Diamonds forever ". (1971) This Bond isronically shedding. Not at all, the Englishman, the radical Scot, Connery still liked the Yana Fleming himself. And no one after him could not so elegantly lay women in bed (Craig is at all some kind of user instinct), smile with eyes, drink "Vodka-Martini" and guide a gun. For many, this is the most favorite Bond. But for sure for all the very first. And, maybe in the case does not apply, but, Sir Connery, how can you know how to make up beautifully! Bond number 2. Passing. George Lazeneby Movie: "On the secret service of Her Majesty". (1969) Someone between the films with Sean Connery, George Lazeneby was fed. Australian actor has become the most imperceptible Bond. He even talks not to his voice (he duplicates George Baker). As far as I remember, he was introduced on one series, because the bond did some plastic surgery. He also turned out to be the most sentimental Bond for all the time crying only once, eyes of Georad. In any case, this film from the lesenby was the most brightest moments in his career. Bond number 3. Redhead. Roger Moore. Films: 1. "Live and give die." (1973) 2. "Man with a Golden Pistol." (1974) 3. "Spy that loved me." (1977) 4. "Lunar Racer". (1979) 5 . "Only for your eyes." (1981) 6. "Omopopka". (1983) 7. "A view of the murder." (1985) Eh, wrote, to the "Redhead" in order not to write "stone". Whether Connery is forever number 1, or Moore and in fact a statue. This Bond is perhaps the most aristocratic appearance: from the advantages of the ability to walk in a tuxedo and raise one eyebrow. Of the minuses, most likely the fact that he is ingraded by Bonda 12 years and is very noticeable by his almost old age in the latest films. Bond should be "sort of for 40 years," and not "exactly 50". And also, for me, he has some kind of gap in the character of the character: the agent is too correct and too in gentlemannsky (even compared to other bonds) refers to women. Bond №4. Nice. Timothy Dalton Films: 1. "Daytime swept". (1987) 2. "Murder License." (1989) Anyone, remembering the Soviet stage, every time hesitates, the code sees this Bond, and they are very unpacking asked: "Alexander Serov has been played ? " This bond was chosen purely by external data. This, probably and played a cruel joke: always weakly believes that he will shoot that he is able to throw this woman and save the world. By the way, Dalton could not play the Bond at all: already on the "live lights" were invited to be angry, but he, for some reason, refused. For me, this Bond is no, but almost everyone else was divided into 2 fog-binding camps. But after all, the Bond is not in beauty, right? .. Bond number 5. SEX-X-X-X ... Pierce Brosnan Films: 1. "Golden Eye". (1995) 2. "Tomorrow I will never die." (1997) 3. "And the whole world is not enough." (1999) 4. "Umci, but not now." (2002) since This post is my personal opinion, then the car will be SEX. And even though Connery in my heart is forever, but this Bond looked at the Holly Berry! .. For this squad, he can forgive the fact that he is too "polished", too accurate and runs too slowly. And even, at least, again, it doesn't have a relationship to Bond, well, I like it as it belongs to my wife! Here is a real man. Bond number 6. Cruel. Daniel Craig Films: 1. "Casino Piano" (2006) 2. "Kvant Mercy" (2008) This Bond is not smiling (Maximmum - a smile), only Mstit. Women (except one, and Thank you) - consumables. And let me hopeless romantic, but after all, Bond is not some kind of car. Maybe, of course, not he is, but life is so. But Craigovsky Bond is not a man. Was Bond cute bastard, became a Bond cruel gad. Forgive me Craig's fans (I'm not about him, but about the last Bond ...) And, at the end, interesting facts on the Bond. Total in 22 films Agent 007 has sex, no little, 81 times! 20 times - in the hotel room. 2 times - in its apartment in London. 15 times - in the place that the girl offered. 2 times - in incomprehensible places. 3 times - in the train car. 2 times - at all in the barn. 2 times - in the forest. 2 times - in the tent. 3 times - on the hospital bed. 2 times - right in the plane. 1 time - on a submarine. 1 time - in its own car. 1 time - on Iceberg. 25 times in water. It is also worth noting that among the first 62 girls of Bond 31 were brunettes, 25 blondes and 4 - dark-skinned. In addition, they all taped the phrase "Oh, James!" A total of 16 minutes. Interesting facts are taken

This is today "Bondiana" - one of the most successful film projects. The actor on the main male role is chosen with an unprecedented quarrel, and become the "Girl Bond" - the dream of the first beauties of the world. Meanwhile, the initially known Hollywood studios refused to finance films on the novels of Jan Fleming, considering the story too British and frankly.

Barry Nelson (1954)

Many believe that the first agent 007 became Sean Connery, however, the first attempt to film the books of Fleming was the episode in the American television series "Culmination!", Released on screens in 1954. He was removed based on the book "Piano casino", the role of "Jimmy Bond" performed the American actor Barry Nelson.

Sean Connery (1962-1967,1971,1983)

The Scottish actor was unknown at that time, and this role became a happy ticket to him in the world of cinema. Connery agent began to play at 32 years old, graduated from 41. And the hard competition passed. According to the contract, he should have played in 5 pictures of Bondians. His fee for the "Doctors but" was modest 6 thousand pounds, but later he earned more than $ 18 million on this role.

When the first euphoria passed, Connery was afraid of the prospects to become an actor of one role. Twice he gave the word that no longer takes to play Bond. But fears were in vain. In 1971, in "Diamonds forever" he was seduced by a factor of 1.25 million dollars and a share of rolled member. In 1983, Scots persuaded to play in his last Bond movie "Never say" Never. " Connery, by the Word, is the only winner of the Oscar award from all Bond performers. And in 2000, the British Queen complained to him the knightly title. By the way, Connery himself his favorite film called "from Russia with love" in 1963.

George Lazeneby (1969)

The scandalous Australian fell into the tape by chance and could not consolidate, despite stunning appearance and athletic addition. He played the agent 007 in the tape "On the Secret Service of Her Majesty". However, for the first nine months, a 30-year-old, withdrawal actor managed to overlook with the director, and with colleagues in the workshop. Interestingly, in this film, Lazenby performed all the tricks. This is the only film where Bond marries - on the Countess Trash, whose role was performed by Dian Rigg. George Lazeneby's fee amounted to 400 thousand dollars. In the future, George invested in the "Universal Soldier" tape with him in the lead role, but she failed. Desperate to achieve fame in movies, Lazenbi has quite succeeded on sale real estate.

Roger Moore (1973-1985)

Roger Moore - Briton to the bone's brain, this is the most "elderly" Bond (began to act in Bondian at 46 years old, graduated from 57). Despite all the concerns, as many as 12 years old, from the first film ("Live and give to die others", 1973) and to the latter ("A view of the murder", 1985) He successfully coped with the mission entrusted to him. Moreover, the audience loved him for the sense of humor and irony, developed more than others. Soon after a goodbye with his hero, Moore tied up with a movie. In 1991, became the ambassador of the goodwill of UNICEF to collect donations. Now lives in his pleasure with a 57-year-old millionaire Christina Tolstrop. The total fee of Roger Moore in the films about the Bond was more than 24 million.

Timothy Dalton (1987-1989)

The author of the "Bond Encyclopedia" Stephen Rubin said that Dalton recreated Bond, in some way saw Fleming himself. By the time, when he was offered to become a new agent, he received a good acting education, played at the Royal Shakespeare Theater. Bond he became 41 years old, finished starring in 43.

Played in two films - "Sparks from Eye" (1987) and "Murder Licenses" (1989). His Bond is not such an aggressive and sexual, practically deprived of a sense of humor, however, the audience loved him for the fact that he was not superman, but a person, less dependent on technical tricks, with principles and steel character.

Timothy Dalton has long refused to play "Scarlett", waiting for another film.

The third film Dalton flashed five years, refusing the role of Rett Batler in Scarlett, in the end, he agreed to Rett, refusing the next film about the agent. At the same time, Timothy said that he felt real freedom: "Bond let me go, and I was able to become myself."

Dalton received high fees: $ 3 million for the film "Sparks from Eye", $ 5 million for the film "Murder License". Also, he was offered $ 6 million per film "Lady Property" (later renamed Golden Eye).

Pierce Brosnan (1995-2002)

Oh, this cunning look of a predator and a real heart ... Ireman Pierce Brosnan for a long time sought the role of James, having passed the path from the taxi driver to the actor. And not in vain - it was placed millions of women across the planet. He starred in four films - "Golden Eye" (1995), "Tomorrow will never die" "(1997)," And the whole world is not enough "(1999)," Melci, but not now "(2002). In the first shot at the age of 42 years. Officially completed the "Bondian" career in 49.

Initially, instead of Dalton planned to invite Mela Gibson, but he, fortunately for the pier, refused. Gibson was thrown 15 million, the knuckle agreed on a ten times smaller fee. The image of the Brosnan Bond was considered "what the Great Agent 007 should look like today." Even Sean Connery himself approved the follower game, saying: "I am striking me that after being rusked, they are still going to shoot new films about Bond." For four films, the actor earned more than $ 41 million.

Daniel Craig (since 2006)

Handsome Craig is the first blonde among all the artists who played Bond. On his account (for now) four films: "Royal Casino", "Kvant Mercy", "007: Skyfall Coordinates" and "007: Spectrum" He began to act in Bondian at the age of 38 and became the most cash and highly paid James Bond. Each film brings him a fee for at least 10 million dollars. Moreover, the producers for the creation of the first three paintings spent about 500 million, and only at the box office earned more than 2 billion! Craig's fee for the fourth film, published in 2015, amounted to almost 46 million dollars, and at the box office, the picture collected 880 million. It is scary to imagine how much 50-year-old Hollywood star will receive for its fifth way out in Bondian. The working title of the picture is "James Bond-25", will remove her Danny Boyle, the director "on the needle" and "Millionaire from a slum." The premiere is planned at the end of 2019.

I was a surprise to find out what the aircraft I bought me Urkhart ticket. He only from employees has a sense of humor (which considers unacceptable for consumption in that gray, like a morgue, a building on a Ridgeths Park, where it works) and, ordering a ticket for me, he, of course, knew what kind of flight he was. The plane was supposed to leave Kennedy Airport at 16.00, heading towards Bermudam. What Mnnah reported Urkhart, so this is that he was a special proposal for newlyweds, heading to relax in his honeymoon.

Two hours at arrival from London, I spent in the Hall of Waiting for Kennedy Airport, in the windows of which a real New York rain with snow, in this cold January Saturday. And now three hours should have been held in the society of people who commit their first marriage flight. Roses, California champagne - all this was not for me.

"Welcome to board, ladies and gentlemen! You are welcomed by "Pan Amerikhan" - the most experienced airline in the world, the captain and crew of which wish you a pleasant flight in this truly unforgettable in your travel life! " Polite laughter. Someone enthusiastic applause. And sitting in our place at the passage, I began to worry about

mine

Upcoming travel.

How did the sense of humor of the old Urkhart ended?

A young couple was sitting between me and the porthole, fully absorbed by each other. He was in dark gray, she is in pink. None of them said nothing. Their silence was disturbing, as if in the disapproval of my so-called mission.

Dinner served - four dishes in plastic packaging - the triumph of the cosmic era. Putting his chicken in Maryland with a crispy crust, I suddenly experienced an acute melancholy. However, in London, Urkhart said that on arrival at the destination for me they will take care of me. There they can do it pretty good.

I drank, then, and while the big aircraft buzzed in the night sky, making my way to the tropics, I tried to restore the events in mind preceding this flight.

It all started two years ago - after I published my book "Life Yana Fleming". After her, I received many letters - from Japanese, engaged in ballistic, from French-friendly bondophilov, from the Swedes - lovers of detectives, as well as from graduate Americans writing their dissertations on the topic of thrillers. I tried to answer everyone. But there was one letter that put me in a predicament. It was from Vienna, from a woman who subscribed as Maria Kyunzler.

The letter was long, slightly sentimental, and written purple ink. It said a pre-war winter spent with Jan Fleming at the ski resort in Kitzbühel. In my book, I did not attach a special meaning to this period of life of Fleming, describing it only briefly. Fleming visited this resort several times, and for the first time it happened in 1920, when he spent time there with a couple on the names of Forbes Dennis (Ms. Forbes Dennis was, by the way, writer Phillies Bottom). Theoretically, Fleming studied German language there, although in practice most of his time he enjoyed mountains and local girls. From the letter followed Miss Künzler was one of them. Its information about Fleming seemed genuine; In his letter, she mentioned friends from Kitzbühel, whom I once took an interview for my book. But most of all I was puzzled when I read the last paragraph of her letter. He sounded as follows: "Now you can understand that the excitement that we felt all when a pretty young man James Bond appeared in Kitzbühel. It turned out that he had a chance to visit the house of Jan in Iton - and this is despite the fact that he was much younger than Yana. Already at that time, James was engaged in a kind of spyware, and Yang who loved to play people, used it in relation to James, leaving him, thus, the information they need. James was very angry with him for it. "

After reading this, I, of course, decided that Miss Künzler was a little not in herself, at least she clearly decorated the facts speculation. I politely thanked her for the letter and wrote that her anecdote about James Bond was pleased with me.

Here I must immediately make a reservation that in the process of writing the "life of Yana Fleming", I did not doubt that James Bond was Yang Fleming, and Jan created this image from his dreams and memories of his childhood. I knew Fleming personally for several years, and those the most years when he wrote his first Bond books. At that time, we worked together in Sandy Times, and in Romanov about Bond I found a lot of parallels between the hero and its author. Fleming even endowed the Bond with his personal qualities - preferences in clothes, food, even in what he looked. That is why when I imagined James Bond's face, I saw Fleming (and not Sean Connery).

However, there were some facts that went wrong with the fact that Bond is a Fleming. Despite the fact that Fleming himself denied it - categorically. It was about the fact that the more attentively you read books, the more the facts relating to the life of James Bond began to notice

outside the storyline

Details about his family, love adventures, some glimpses of the school career, as well as teasing mention of his early spy activities. In more than thirteen books about James Bond, all these moments are stacked in a surprisingly consistent picture. It was this that he gave rise to rumors that Fleming wrote the image of his hero with a real prototype - the agent, with whom she encountered during the service in the exploration of the British fleet during the war.

One theory was that the "real" James Bond was the captain of the royal marines, the personality and features of which inspired Fleming. The other is that Fleming carefully studied the career of the double British agent James Morton, the body of which was discovered at the Shepherd Hotel in Cairo in 1962. There were other rumors. However, no of them endured critics, and could not make me change their attitude towards what James Bond is Yang Fleming. Then I received a second letter from the mysterious Miss Künzler from Vienna. It arrived at about three months after I wrote to her answer, and in it Miss Künzler apologized for the delay, referring to health problems. (According to all data, at that time she was about sixty-five). This time the letter was shorter. It indicated that the last time Miss Künzler saw James Bond at the celebration in Kitzbühel in 1938. She also added that he wrote to her a few letters after the holiday, and that's it. When she becomes better, she will find them and move them, putting some photos to them. And undoubtedly there must be people who knew James Bond in ITon. Why don't I contact them? I answered her immediately, asking for me to send me the specified letters. The answer did not follow.

I wrote to her some more time - again unsuccessfully. Then following her advice, I decided to test possible evidence of the young Bond in ITon. Fleming appeared in Iton in the fall of 1921. I didn't have data on the age of James Bond, except, except, saying Miss Künzler that he was younger than Fleming. I checked all the data for the twenties. Separate bonds came across, but not one of them was called James, and none of them visited the old house of Fleming. It was clear that Miss Künzler was mistaken, but the intrigued, I decided to check and thirties. Suddenly Ya

detected

Some of the James Bond, who was recorded in the Slater Pension * in the fall of the 1933rd.

// One of the hostels of the Iton College is here and further - approx. Transl. //

He was listed on the list for more than two years, after which it disappeared from it in the 1936th, in the spring. By itself, this fact has not yet proved the allegations of Miss Künzler, but I could not pass past him. James Bond, who visited IION, was definitely existed, but he seemed too young to be familiar with Fleming. It was unlikely that his age man could be connected with the secret service by 1937. Having tried to find out more than this guy, I failed. The secretary in the school office told me that there is no data on him - neither about him or his family. She recommended that I contact the company of graduates of the Iton College. I contacted them, but again unsuccessfully. All that they could offer me is a list of some peers of Bond.