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Ian Fleming

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Ian Fleming spent the Second World War as personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Admiral John Godfrey, planning deception schemes and forming the commando unit 30 Assault Unit. Casino Royale (1953) and the Bond novels that followed drew on that world of gadgets, codenames and Whitehall bureaucracy, and Godfrey is often cited as a model for M.
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