Richard Trenholm at cnet.com
offers a piece on an exhibition on James Bond author Ian Fleming (seen in the above and below photos) and the code-breaking
center Bletchley Park.
The name's Bletchley.
Bletchley Park.
The real-life espionage roots
of the world's most famous fictional spy are revealed in a new exhibition
exploring James Bond 007's origins in the wartime work of his creator, Ian
Fleming.
Fleming created Bond in 1953
and the deadly spy's adventures have been entertaining us in print and on film
ever since. But Bond's history goes back to Fleming's own experience as an
intelligence officer during World War II. Fleming visited the then-secret but
now legendary codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park, where Alan Turing and
other scientists and engineers laid the groundwork for modern computing with
their pioneering cryptography work.
You can read the rest of the
piece via the below link:
You can also read my
Counterterrorism magazine piece on Ian Fleming’s wartime experiences and the commando unit he created via the
below link:
