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Ian Fleming: Novels and the Intelligence Agencies


John Simkin

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Hmmmmm.... Ian Fleming seems to have impregnated the then wife of a very powerful British Viscount and possibly sent the interesting life of said Viscount in a completely unanticipated direction, as well as his own. I wonder if he felt emboldened by knowledge of these much more recent revelations about Viscount Rothermere......

Secret documents have just been released concerning the relationship betweeen Lord Rothermere and Adolf Hitler have just been released.

http://www.guardian....1449908,00.html

Months before war, Rothermere said Hitler's work was superhuman

Richard Norton-Taylor

The Guardian, Thursday 31 March 2005 20.20 EST

Article history

The proprietor of the Daily Mail sent a series of supportive and congratulatory telegrams to Nazi Germany's leaders, including Hitler, just months before the second world war, papers released today reveal.

Intercepted messages from Lord Rothermere to Berlin are among the first papers to be released from Foreign Office intelligence files.

The files also show how, as early as 1906, MI6 drew up detailed plans to plant agents in Europe "in the event of war with Germany". At the end of 1938 they were telling London that Hitler believed Britain was "enemy No 1".

Yet in the summer of 1939, Rothermere was still appealing to Hitler not to provoke a war, saying that Britain and Nazi Germany must remain at peace. "Our two great Nordic countries should pursue resolutely a policy of appeasement for, whatever anyone may say, our two great countries should be the leaders of the world," he told Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's foreign minister, on July 7 1939.

Ten days earlier, Rothermere had written to Hitler: "My Dear Führer, I have watched with understanding and interest the progress of your great and superhuman work in regenerating your country."

He assured Hitler that the British government had "no policy which involves the encirclement of Germany, and that no British government could exist which embraced such a policy".......

https://www.google.c...iw=1173&bih=732

Rothermere Sues for Divorce

New York Times - Jan 31, 1952

Rothermere Sues for Divorce Viscount Rothermere, 53-year-old British newspaper publisher, Rothermere Sues for Divorce

New York Times - Jan 31, 1952

... filed suit forI divorce from Lady Rothermere today on grounds of misconduct.I His petition, which was on the list of undefended cases, cited a "Mr.I Fleming" as

http://news.google.c...at-lady-*&hl=en

Rothermere Gets Divorce

New York Times - Feb 8, 1952 & Spokane Daily Chronicle - Feb 7, 1952

Rothermere Gets Divorce Viscount Rothermere, 53, London newspaper proprietor, was granted a decree nisi in divorce court today. His petition stated that Lady Rothermere, whom he married in 1945, had committed adultery with Ian Lancaster Fleming, who was cited as co-respondent. ....

https://www.google.c...urce=newspapers

Lady Rothermere Weds British News Manager

The Sun - Mar 26, 1952

Kingston, Jamaica, March 25 (AP). Lady Rothermere and Ian Flem ing, ... were mar - ried Monday in a civil ceremony at Port Maria, near Fleming's winter home....

http://select.nytime...4D0405B848AF1D3

New York Times - Aug 13, 1964

Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service, died early today in a hospital in Canterbury after suffering a heart attack, he was 56 years old.

Mr. Fleming was stricken last night at his hotel in Sandwich, wher he was spending a golf- ing vacation with his wife, Anne Geraldine Fleming, and their son, Caspar, who became 12 years old today.

The novelist suffered a coro- nary thrombosis three years ago, it forced him to curtail his activities and reduce his daily quota of gold-tipped ciga-

Continued on Page 29, Column 1

Ian Fleming, Author, 56, Dies; Created James Bond, Agent 007

....In 1935 he became a stockbroker and remained one until the outbreak of the war in 1939.

Mr. Fleming was commis- sioned in the Royal Navy and became in time personal assit- ant to Rear Admiral J.H. God- frey, director of naval intelligence. The admiral was the prototype of "M," the retired seadog who heads Bond's secret service.

More important, it was Mr. Fleming's wartime service, from which he emerged as a commander, that provided insights into the techniques of intelligence work that readers found en- thralling.

After the war, he became foreing manager of the Sunday Times of London. His contract provided for two months of vacation a year, which he spent at Goldeneye, his home near Oracabessa in Jamaica. Mr. Fleming did most of his writing there and the island provided the background for many of his novels.

Like Bond, Mr. Fleming was tall (6-foot-1) and slender (168 pounds). His curly hair was graying, his complexion was ruddy and his nose had been broken.

The novelist was a collector of first editions and rare books and published The Book Collec- tor, the bibliophilic magazine.

Besides his widow, whose marriage to Viscount Rother- mere ended indivorce in 1952, and his son, Mr. Fleming is survived by two brothers, Peter, the explorer and write, and Richard, a banker.

Mrs. Mary Ohrstrom Bride Of Rothermere, the Publisher

New York Times - Mar 29, 1966

Viscount Rothermere, publisher of The Daily Mail here, married Mrs. Mary Murchison Ohrstrom here today. ViscountRothermere, publisher of TheDaily Mail here .

Son to the Rothermeres

New York Times - Jun 20, 1967

LONDON, June 19 (AP)- Viscountess Rothermere, wife of the British press lord, gave birth to a son yesterday. .ady Rothermere, who was married to Viscount ...

British Newspaper Tycoon Dies .

Press-Courier - Jul 12, 1978

LONDON - Viscount Rothermere. who controlled a British newspaper empire for ... oil magnate Kenneth Murchison, died at his London home Tuesday night.....

http://educationforu...showtopic=18989

George L. Ohrstrom, Jr., and Family, Father was Prescott Bush Friend

...All of Ricard Riggs Ohrstrom's six sons resulted from his marriage to:

Mrs. Ohrstrom Has Son

New York Times - May 3, 1962

Mrs. Ohrstrom Has Son A son was porn April 28 to Mr. and Mrs. Ricard R. Ohrstrom ... Mary Murchison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Murchison of Dallas, Tax

Kenneth Murchison, 68, Dead; Insurance Executive in Dallas

New York Times - Nov 11, 1969

Mr. Murchison was the founder of Kenneth Murchison Co., an insurance partnership ... Western Gas Company, which had been organized by his brother, Clint...

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http://www.nytimes.c...te-is-dead.html

Viscountess Rothermere, Socialite, Is Dead

Published: April 07, 1993

Mary, Viscountess Rothermere, a philanthropist and socialite, died last Thursday at a hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla., at the age of 62. She had homes in Palm Beach, Manhattan, Monte Carlo and Newport, R.I.

The cause was heart failure, her family said....

...A native of Dallas, she was a member of a prominent business family in Texas as the daughter of Kenneth Murchison. After attending Sweetbriar College, she married Ricard R. Ohrstrom, a financier and industrialist.

After they divorced, she moved to England in 1966 and remarried, to Viscount Rothermere. He headed a British publishing empire that included The Daily Mail newspaper. After his death in 1978, she returned to the United States.

She leaves six sons by Mr. Ohrstrom, Ricard Jr. of Greenwich, Conn.; Kenneth of McLean, Va.;, George of Berrville, Va.; Christopher of Strasbourg, France; Barnaby of Tampa, Fla., and Mark of London, all of whom retained the Ohrstrom name, and one son by the Viscount, Esmond Harmsworth of Cambridge, Mass. She is also survived by two sisters, Anne Smith of Boston and Jane Hamilton of Denver; a brother, Kenneth Murchison of Las Cruces, N.M., and several grandchildren.

An all too brief and tragic, subsequent marriage:

Mrs. McKellar Is Wed To Ricard Ohrstrom

New York Times - Feb 2, 1967

Mrs Monique von Mudra McKellar, daughter of Alfred von Mudra of Einbeck, ... Mudra of Palo Alto, Calif., was married to Ricard R. Ohrstrom of New York on Jan.

Probe Set In Death Of Socialite .

Free Lance-Star - Dec 21, 1967

Ricard Ohrstrom, a Wall Street financier with an es tate at The Plains. Mrs. Ohrstrom was admitted to Winchester Memorial Hospit al Friday night, suffering from what Hill called ... Bryant would not give that permission, and Ohrstrom could not be.

George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. succeeded his brother, Ricard, as head of their father's firm. Their sister is the mother of JC Herbert Bryant, Jr., a man with a colorful background who received "special" consideration by Federal Authorities while GHW Bush was US President.:

http://articles.dail...arshals-service

U.s. Marshals Criticized For Deputizing Va. Man

By The Washington Post | December 4, 1992

A Justice Department probe has found that U.S. Marshals Service officials made "serious misjudgments" when they gave a badge and arrest authority to a wealthy Middleburg man who had formed a private Loudoun County group to provide armored vehicles to law enforcement agencies, sources said. In an internal report, Justice investigators said the Marshals Service did not have a good reason to grant special deputy marshal status to J.C. Herbert Bryant Jr., who also used to head another private group that promotes the service.

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