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Awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog from the Danish Government for services during the war
Moves into 5 Montagu Place, Marylebone; accepts offer from Lord Kemsley to organise a foreign news service for his newspaper empire - starts building up the 'Mercury Service'
Has clause added to his contract - guaranteed a minimum of 2 months paid holiday (so he can escape the winter to 'Goldeneye'). Becomes known as the 'Commander' out there; one of his neighbours being Noël Coward
Sees a New York heart specialist after complaining of pain and tightness in his chest (1946)
Completes an article for the magazine 'Horizon', an island guide to Jamaica (1947)
Moves into 21 Hays Mews, Mayfair (late 1947)
Helps Lord Kemsley with the 'Sunday Times' and its battle with the 'Observer' (late 1940s and 1950s)
Goes to see Sir John Parkinson, Harley Street heart specialist, after again complaining of chest pains (1948)
Moves into flat in Hay's Mews, Mayfair (mid 1948)
Mrs Fleming leaves the Grand Hotel, Cannes to move to 'Emerald Wave' on Cable Beach, Nassau, Bahamas, on her son's recommendation, for tax purposes (July 1950)
Fleming moves to 24 Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea (August 1950)
Buys 'White Cliffs', Noël Coward's house at St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover (Christmas 1951)
First draft of 'Casino Royale' written (January-March 1952)
Marries Lady Rothermere (Anne Charteris) in the Magistrates Office of the Town Hall, Port Maria, Jamaica. Noël Coward and Cole Leslie (Coward's secretary) are witnesses (March 24, 1952)
Becomes European Vice-President of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) with Lord Kemsley's permission (Ivar Bryce, Fleming's friend, had bought a controlling interest)
William Plomer reads draft of 'Casino Royale' who passes it onto Daniel George (at Jonathan Cape). Jonathan Cape himself then sees it. Fleming re-writes parts of the draft
Anne gives birth to Caspar Robert Fleming (August 1952)
Caspar Robert christened at Chelsea Old Church. Noël Coward and Anthony Eden's wife, Clarissa, among godparents (October 1952)
Buys Glidrose Productions to ease tax burden for forthcoming book(s) (October 1952)
Cape accepts 'Casino Royale' for publication (early 1953)
Moves out of Carlyle Mansions and buys 16 Victoria Square (March 1953)
UK publication day of 'Casino Royale' (Tuesday April 13, 1953)
Writes 3 articles for the 'Sunday Times' covering Jacques Cousteau's salvage of the wreck of a Graeco-Roman galley from around 250 B.C. off the French coast near Marseilles (1953)
Macmillan buys 'Casino Royale' for US publication (March 23, 1954)
CBS pays Fleming $1000 to adapt 'Casino Royale' into a one hour TV adventure as part of their 'Climax!' series. It stars Barry Nelson (Bond turned into an American for this TV version), Peter Lorre and Linda Christian - broadcast live (October 7, 1954)
Fleming nearly gives up Bond - "I have a fifth book more or less in mind, but after that the vacuum is complete". SMERSH was to kill Bond off at the end of 'From Russia, With Love'
Visits Japan, gathers material for 'You Only Live Twice'
Attends 'From Russia With Love' premiere and hosts film party afterwards for friends at Victoria Square (October 10, 1963)
'Thunderball' trial commences. Ivar Bryce, who was also being sued, opts for a settlement rather than continue (mid November 1963) IVAR BRYCE SUED
Sees a heart specialist, instructed to lead a healthier life - to avoid smoking and rest more (December 1963)
Sells 51% of Glidrose to relieve tax problems to golfing friend Sir Jock Campbell's company Booker Brothers
Catches a cold and then pleurisy from playing golf in the rain (late Easter 1964) - after King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers and a short time at Victoria Square, Fleming goes to the Dudley Hotel, Hove to recuperate
Mother, Evelyn Fleming, dies at a hotel in Brighton (July 24, 1964)
Attends her funeral at Nettlebed near Henley; returns to Victoria Square
Attends a committee meeting of the Royal St. Georges Golf Club at Sandwich Bay - he is to be the next captain of the club (August 1964)
After the meeting, Ian Lancaster Fleming taken to Canterbury Hospital and dies of heart failure (August 12, 1964)
Genesis of Thunderball
His association with the film, 'The Boy and the Bridge' as unofficial adviser in the final stages of its production, was how Fleming met Irish writer / producer Kevin McClory. Fleming's friend, Ivar Bryce, was backing the picture with McClory producing. Bryce was in America and had asked Fleming to go and see how the film was progressing aswell as giving any private advice on it in general.
Mid - November 1958 - in a private viewing theatre at 146 Piccadilly, Fleming went to see the rough version of 'The Boy and the Bridge'. He told Bryce he had been impressed by what he saw and thereafter spent more time with McClory, there was 'considerable respect' for McClory's abilities and energy he had put into the film. Before its completion McClory was suggesting a James Bond picture with Bryce as backer (although he didn't like any of Fleming's existing plots).
Ernest Cuneo wrote a short story on May 27th 1959 which he then sent to Bryce. Cuneo, Fleming and McClory met at Bryce's house in Essex one weekend and began discussing a James Bond story (they formed a film partnership, Xanadu). A plot was created - Fleming agreed to develop it into a rough script to form the basis of a film. XANADU AND ROUGH DRFAT OF A FILM
He continued to work on the screenplay until October 1959. Jack Whittingham joined the partnership (on McClory's suggestion) and expanded the script which was known as 'James Bond, Secret Agent' (other titles had been 'Longitude 78 West' and 'James Bond Of The Secret Service').
Fleming and Whittingham both made further passes at the story before Whittingham worked on a full screenplay over the new year of 1960. But the group were having problems finding backers - MCA (the company that Bryce had approached to fund the film) announced that they wanted to make the film but not with McClory as producer. BRYCE APPROACHED MCA
Fleming and Bryce had begun to cool on the project. McClory met with Fleming at Goldeneye and McClory was told that he had three options: back out as producer / director, convince whatever backer they eventually found to hire him (as producer / director) or thirdly - go to court. McClory left Jamaica after only an hour and a half. Ernest Cuneo solds his rights to Fleming for one dollar and the project collapsed. Fleming, believing the film plan dead, completed 'the book of the film' at Goldeneye.
Fleming's novel was published in 1961. It was also serialised in 'Life' magazine - McClory sought an injunction against Fleming and Bryce that March on the grounds of plagiarism, which was denied.
Eventually the case reached London's High Court, the trial beginning in November 1963 - McClory had sued for 'plagiarism and false attribution', claiming the novel was based on scripts that he himself and Whittingham had worked on.
After a lengthy court case (10 days) Fleming settled out of court (at Bryce's instigation as he thought the stress was killing his friend). McClory, through a Deed of Assignment, was given the film rights while Fleming kept the publishing rights ('based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and Ian Fleming').
The pivoting marginal and decisive events of world history have been toppled into place by dirty tricks and deceptive devices to counter otherwise devastating and evil forces such as Nazism which comes to mind. They are reminiscent of the drama of Jacob before the deathbed of his father Isaac. Cryptic references to such have certainly been made in the works and acts of British spies and saboteurs ensconced in Washington deceptively guiding America’s entry into WWII and countering the persistent opposition of the isolationist groups such as the America First Committee, and various industrialists bent on doing business with axis powers, such industries under the surveillance and scrutiny and reporting to British intelligence by David (?) Ogleby, Gilbert Highet, Roald Dahl, and a host of others based at Camp X in Ontario (see the works of Henry Hyde, Historian), and cryptic references to dirty acts and naval and military intelligence won decisive victories of the WWII .
The dirty tricks alluded to above were concerted and planned by the master saboteur Bill Stephenson and his agent chosen for their expertise and unorthodox cunning , he , being assigned this unorthodox of tasks by Churchill himself to draw America to war to save the beleaguered British Isle from annihilation. SEE ALSO THE WORK OF JENNET CONANT, THE IRREGULARS PART TWO. It takes this cunning to overcome the evil forces ready in an instant to strangle freedom.
The Cassandra like truth and cryptic references to British Intelligence are fictionalized in the works of Ian Fleming.
The fake map allegedly created by Ivar Bryce of the Mountbattens and “put into the hands of FDR so conveniently bespeak the truth of the necessity of such acts and must have been done, it seems, with the complicity of FDR who was too intelligent and aware not to know of this subterfuge. This is on my removal file along with the research on Ivar Bryce, confidant an friend to Ian Fleming.
IVAR BRYCE AND THE FAKE MAP FDR ALLUDED TO IN THE NAVAL SPEECH AND OTHER REVELATIONS
http://www.theamericancause.org/patnakedforgeryprint.htm
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=229843 Ivar Bryce's claim to fame comes not so much from his noble relativesbut from his friendship with Ian Fleming and his role as an agent inWorld War Two. It is said that it was Bryce who thought of the name"James Bond" and he wrote memoirs called "You Only Live Once" in 1975.His name comes up often as Fleming's friend: looking at propertytogether, choosing cars, collaborating on books and movies, sometimeswith a third friend Ernest Cuneo. Confusingly, Ivar is also known asJohn F. C. Bryce. Ivar was at Eton (the exclusive British boarding school) with Flemingand they were colleagues in naval intelligence. It is believed one ofBryce's wartime missions was to draw the USA into action. He himselfclaimed to have thought up a "secret map" designed to "show" Americansthat Hitler had plans for their continent. He died in 1985. As well as property in the Bahamas, the Bryces owned a country estatein Vermont and an Elizabethan house at Moyns Park in England.Josephine also had property in Canada, a farm in Bedford, NY, MillRiver Stable in Vermont and for twenty years she owned a house inNewport, designed by architect John Russell Pope. This she sold in1951. Her links with Rhode Island continued, partly via her daughterby her first marriage, Nuala (O'Donnell) Pell, wife of SenatorClaiborne Pell.I pieced this together from a variety of sources, including anobituary from the Chicago Tribune which I can't reproduce forcopyright reasons. But here are excerpts and links which I hope willround out the picture for you, and show you where I found theinformation. There are one or two inconsistencies but I think it issafe to assume Josephine's last name was McIntosh at one time, sincethis is used more than once for her. You may be able to access the Chicago Tribune article through alibrary if you are in the US. Otherwise, you can read it here for asmall fee:http://www.chicagotribune.com/ Bryce and Fleming met in 1914, attended Eton together, and becamelife-long friends. After a spell with the American OSS espionageorganisation during World War II, Bryce married a rich American andMoyns Park became a hedonistic retreat for him and his wife.http://www.continental.org.uk/bond.htm+%22IVAR+BRYCE%22+married+OR+wife&hl=en&ie=UTF-8Picture of Moyns Parkhttp://www.essexpast.co.uk/moyns-park.htmlLord Ivar Mountbatten [...] and his older brother inherited the housefrom theirmother's cousin, Ivar Bryce, who was a good friend of Ian Fleming.http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=ivar+bryce+mountbatten&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=plcHdAb.makoenig%40delphi.com&rnum=1 Fleming was a friend of Ivar Bryce, the first cousin of Janet,Marchioness of Milford Haven, who owned Moyns Park - it was Ivar Brycewho coined the name James Bond -- not the late Lord Milford Havenhttp://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=ivar+bryce+mountbatten&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=xLfl9qf.makoenig%40delphi.com&rnum=2 The drive is about a mile long and winds through parkland towards themain facade of the house, which is Elizabethan with two earlier Tudorwings at the back. The house contains a full set of first editions ofIan Fleming's James Bond books, each with a dedication to his oldfriend Ivar Bryce, who thought up the name for the fictional hero.Mountbatten family home for sale at £4mBy Tom Rowland, Property Editorhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1997%2F06%2F30%2Fnmou30.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=226446 Correspondence between the Bryces and Ernest Cuneo (Fleming's friend)http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000/findbrow.cgi?collection=Cuneo,+Ernest "j.f.c.b" refers to Fleming's life long friend Ivar Bryce. "e.l.c." isErnest Cuneo, a war-time Fleming associate and life long friend.http://www.commanders.com/pages/timeline.htm Goes to Washington to meet with the US Navy department's Office ofIntelligence and then goes onto Jamaica, with his school friend IvarBryce, to represent the DNI at a U-boat conference. Bryce and Fleminggo and see Bryce's Jamaican house. [early 1940s?]http://www.obsessional.co.uk/ianfleming.htm
British agent Ivar Bryce, who worked under Churchill's man WilliamStephenson, who had been given his mission: Provoke America to go towar with Germany. http://www.theamericancause.org/patnakedforgeryprint.htm ====It was a forgery produced by the British intelligence service, mostprobably at its technical laboratory in Ontario, Canada. WilliamStephenson (code name: Intrepid), chief of British intelligenceoperations in North America, passed it on to U.S. intelligence chiefWilliam Donovan, who gave it to Roosevelt. In a memoir published inlate 1984, war-time British agent Ivar Bryce claimed credit forthinking up the "secret map" scheme.http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p125_Weber.html
IVAR BRYCE AND THE NOBLE LIE ; THE FAKE MAP AND FDR
Naked Forgery
Patrick J. Buchanan
July 11 2003
On Oct. 27, 1941, FDR, locked in mortal combat with an America First Committee that was resisting his drive to war, played his trump. On Navy Day, at the Mayflower Hotel, FDR declared,"I have in my possession a secret map, made in Germany by Hitler's Government – by planners of the New World Order. ... It is a map of South America ... as Hitler proposes to reorganize it. ... This map makes clear the Nazi design, not only against South America but against the United States as well."Roosevelt was not done. I also have, he informed his audience, a Nazi document detailing plans "to abolish all existing religions, liquidate all clergy and create an 'International Nazi Church.'"In the place of the Bible, the words of 'Mein Kampf' will be imposed and enforced in a Holy Writ. And in the place of the cross of Christ will be put two symbols – the swastika and the naked sword. ... The God of Blood and Iron will take the place of the God of Love and Mercy."The Nazi plans for eradicating Christianity were never found. And the map? A forgery by British agent Ivar Bryce, who worked under Churchill's man William Stephenson, who had been given his mission: Provoke America to go to war with Germany.As Nicholas Cull relates in "Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American 'Neutrality' in World War II," the "most striking feature" of Bryce's fake map "was the complicity of the president of the United States in perpetrating this fraud."In his address to Congress calling for war, after Pearl Harbor, FDR did not even mention Germany. Yet Hitler stunned the world by declaring war on America. Why? Among the reasons cited by Germany was the provocation of FDR's Navy Day speech and fake map.Stephenson's forgery was a triumph and served a backdrop for Clare Luce's remark that Roosevelt "lied us into war because he did not have the political courage to lead us into it."Though Stephenson used fraud and blackmail to goad us into a war that killed and wounded a million Americans, he is the hero of the best-seller "A Man Called Intrepid." And not only has FDR been forgiven, he has been celebrated. His lies, it is said, were noble lies, to rouse an isolationist America into doing its duty and ridding the world of Adolf Hitler.
CASINO ROYALE
First draft of 'Casino Royale' written (January-March 1952)
Marries Lady Rothermere (Anne Charteris) in the Magistrates Office of the Town Hall, Port Maria, Jamaica. Noël Coward and Cole Leslie (Coward's secretary) are witnesses (March 24, 1952)
Becomes European Vice-President of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) with Lord Kemsley's permission (Ivar Bryce, Fleming's friend, had bought a controlling interest)
William Plomer reads draft of 'Casino Royale' who passes it onto Daniel George (at Jonathan Cape). Jonathan Cape himself then sees it. Fleming re-writes parts of the draft
Anne gives birth to Caspar Robert Fleming (August 1952)
Caspar Robert christened at Chelsea Old Church. Noël Coward and Anthony Eden's wife, Clarissa, among godparents (October 1952)
Buys Glidrose Productions to ease tax burden for forthcoming book(s) (October 1952)
Cape accepts 'Casino Royale' for publication (early 1953)
Moves out of Carlyle Mansions and buys 16 Victoria Square (March 1953)
UK publication day of 'Casino Royale' (Tuesday April 13, 1953)
Writes 3 articles for the 'Sunday Times' covering Jacques Cousteau's salvage of the wreck of a Graeco-Roman galley from around 250 B.C. off the French coast near Marseilles (1953)
Macmillan buys 'Casino Royale' for US publication (March 23, 1954)
CBS pays Fleming $1000 to adapt 'Casino Royale' into a one hour TV adventure as part of their 'Climax!' series. It stars Barry Nelson (Bond turned into an American for this TV version), Peter Lorre and Linda Christian - broadcast live (October 7, 1954)
Fleming nearly gives up Bond - "I have a fifth book more or less in mind, but after that the vacuum is complete". SMERSH was to kill Bond off at the end of 'From Russia, With Love'
CADET,MUNICH UNIVERSITY
Sent to Kitzbühel, Austria, to study (Summer 1926)
Gentleman Cadet Ian Lancaster Fleming joins No.5 Company under Major the Lord Ailwyn, DSO, MC (passed 6th in the entrance exam out of the whole country - awarded a prize cadetship) (Autumn 1926)
Comes 2nd in the 120 yards hurdle representing Sandhurst in the Woolwich-Sandhurst-Cranwell athletics match at Queens Club (May 1927)
Quits Sandhurst. Mrs Fleming sends him back to Austria for a year to get the University education he missed out on
Sent to Munich to continue studies, becoming a student at Munich University
Sent to Geneva University to improve his French for the Foreign Office examination to become a diplomat (1929)
Takes a temporary job at the Bureau of Intellectual Co-operation of the League of Nations to gain experience as a civil servant
Fleming comes an unimpressive 25th out of 62 applicants (with only a couple of places available) and fails to get into the Foreign Office / Diplomatic Service (July 1931)
Sir Roderick Jones, head of 'Reuters', takes Fleming on - mainly sub-edits foreign stories aswell as occasional reporting jobs (1932)
Takes the Nord-Express from Berlin to Moscow, to cover the show trial of 6 British engineers of the 'Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company'. They were accused of aiding state employees in sabotaging 4 power stations. Fleming did well, gaining respect of other senior journalists there (April 1933)
Asked to report his findings of the trial and details on Moscow to the Foreign Office on his return
Grandfather, Robert Fleming, dies
PLANNED TO INTERVIEW ADOLF HITLER
Offered job in Shanghai as far-eastern correspondent at end of the year - before this, it was planned that he was to interview Adolf Hitler (September 1933)
Resigns from 'Reuters', instead joining 'Cull and Company', merchant bank (October 1933)
Joins 'Rowe and Pitman' stockbrokers as a junior partner
Fleming spends £250 on starting a collection of first editions, covering the 'milestones of human progress' (early 1935)
Moves into his first house, 22B Ebury Street, Belgravia (October 1936)
Sent to Moscow again, this time reporting for 'The Times' and also gathering intelligence for the Foreign Office
Admiral Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence (DNI), introduced to Fleming by Admiral Aubrey Hugh-Smith (brother of senior partner in stockbroking firm 'Rowe and Pitman', where Fleming was working at the time) at the Carlton Grill. Fleming earmarked as his personal assistant when war breaks out (May 1939)
Fleming begins working part time (afternoons, 3 / 4 times a week) within the Naval Intelligence Division at the Admiralty (July 1939)
He is appointed Lieutenant (Special branch) in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (July 26, 1939)
"Dr No" was written by Ian at a time when he had run dry of 007 nuances and plots. So he reached back in his experience to a travel piece written for the Sunday Times about Inagua Island in the Bahamas. Fleming and Ivar Bryce had gone there on an expedition to count rare flamingos for the Audubon Society. The island was almost entirely stinking mangrove swamps and they rode about in a large-wheeled swamp buggy while counting guanay cormorants -- all details that made their exaggerated way into "Dr. No".
WWII Assistant to DNI
Spends the war working in 'Room 39' at the Admiralty as assistant to the DNI. Has contact with the Special Operations Executive (set up for irregular operations during the war such as parachuting men and weapons into occupied Europe), also MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6) which works under supervision of the Foreign Office and also MI5, responsible for Counter-espionage under the Home Office
Flies to France to help try and persuade the French Navy to withdraw to the safety of England - Admiral Darlan refusing to withdraw (June 1940)
After a while, Fleming told to help the British evacuation from Bordeaux instead
Around this time Fleming quickly promoted - Lieutenant-Commander to Commander
Visits SOE's sabotage school at Ashton House, near Knebworth (agent / fighter training for men dropped into occupied Europe)
Evacuates Ebury Street in favour of the Carlton Hotel (1940)
Carlton Hotel bombed, moves into the Lansdowne Club, Berkeley Square (Autumn 1940) - also moves to St. James Club, Piccadilly and then to Athenaeum Hotel, Piccadilly by the end of 1941
Accompanies the DNI to the United States to establish closer relations with American Intelligence. Meets with J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI and also with Sir William Stephenson, who had been building up British Intelligence throughout North and South America (mid 1941) MEETS W SIR WM STEPHENSON
Invited by Stephenson to see new training complex and take part in its course for American agents by Lake Ontario, near Toronto. Apparently Fleming becomes one of its best pupils
Forms his own group of 'Intelligence Commandos' - known as No.30 Assault Unit ('My Red Indians') (1942) CAMP X
Rear-Admiral John Godfrey leaves the NID, succeeded by Commodore E.G.N. Rushbrooke (November 1942)
Goes to Washington to meet with the US Navy department's Office of Intelligence and then goes onto Jamaica, with his school friend Ivar Bryce, to represent the DNI at a U-boat conference. Bryce and Fleming go and see Bryce's Jamaican house. Fleming decides to live in Jamaica - land on the north shore at Oracabessa bought for £2000 (£2000 also quoted to build the house). Names considered for the estate - 'Shamelady' and 'Rum Cove'
Officially released from his Majesty's service (November 10, 1945) JAMAICA AND IVAR BRYCE
Awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog from the Danish Government for services during the war
Moves into 5 Montagu Place, Marylebone; accepts offer from Lord Kemsley to organise a foreign news service for his newspaper empire - starts building up the 'Mercury Service'
Has clause added to his contract - guaranteed a minimum of 2 months paid holiday (so he can escape the winter to 'Goldeneye'). Becomes known as the 'Commander' out there; one of his neighbours being Noël Coward
Sees a New York heart specialist after complaining of pain and tightness in his chest (1946)
Completes an article for the magazine 'Horizon', an island guide to Jamaica (1947)
Moves into 21 Hays Mews, Mayfair (late 1947)
Helps Lord Kemsley with the 'Sunday Times' and its battle with the 'Observer' (late 1940s and 1950s)
Goes to see Sir John Parkinson, Harley Street heart specialist, after again complaining of chest pains (1948)
Moves into flat in Hay's Mews, Mayfair (mid 1948)
Mrs Fleming leaves the Grand Hotel, Cannes to move to 'Emerald Wave' on Cable Beach, Nassau, Bahamas, on her son's recommendation, for tax purposes (July 1950)
Fleming moves to 24 Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea (August 1950)
Buys 'White Cliffs', Noël Coward's house at St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover (Christmas 1951)
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