![]() ![]() The W Board provided overall espionage planning and strategy, while the XX Committee (as it was also known) was tasked with operations and day-to-day activities. Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming, personal assistant to British Director of Naval Intelligence, Rear Admiral John Godfrey, had heard all about Britain's-and Germany's-best spy, double agent Dusko Popov, code named TRICYCLE.Īdmiral Godfrey was one of only two men who sat on both boards-the W Board and the Double-Cross Committee-which supervised Britain's double agents the other was Major- General Stewart Menzies, "C" ("M" in the Bond novels), director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). In all likelihood, however, Ian Fleming had been intrigued by the notion of a charming MI6 playboy months earlier. ![]() Seventy-five years ago this week - between August 4 and 9, 1941, to be exact - James Bond was born. ![]()
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