The Allied effort to finally defeat Hitler was massive, involving soldiers, sailors, airmen, factory workers and many other people in a wide range of occupations. But perhaps the strangest operation of World War 2 was dreamed up by a novelist. Ian Fleming , long before he became famous as the creator of super-spy James Bond , worked as assistant to the director of Naval Intelligence, Admiral Sir John Godfrey (who was the inspiration for Bond’s boss M). In 1943, with the massive Allied invasion of Sicily poised to strike at what Churchill called the “soft underbelly” of Hitler ’s Europe,...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
