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Not mentioned in the brief bio is Fleming's work during WWII. Notably, he conceived of Operation Ruthless, a plan to stage a German plane ditching, and capture
by JoeDaDude 3y ago
Not mentioned in the brief bio is Fleming's work during WWII. Notably, he conceived of Operation Ruthless, a plan to stage a German plane ditching, and capture the German rescue ship with an Emigma code book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ruthless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ruthless
- newsclues 3y agoHe trained in Canada http://www.camp-x.com/camp-x.html http://www.camp-x.com/camp-x.html
- rmason 3y agoFleming was also the first to suggest planting papers on a corpse to mislead the enemy. This was in a widely circulated memo of ideas. It later was successfully tried in Operation Mincemeat to conceal the invasion of Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Fleming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat
- whartung 3y agoOperation Mincemeat is a film on Netflix that’s worth watching.
- gumby 3y agoThere's almost a full paragraph on his war efforts in the article; from the rest of that article we can imageine it's dissected at length in the book: > In a book not short on detail – more of this in a moment – Shakespeare expends vast amounts of ink in trying to work out exactly how adept Commander Fleming, as he soon became, was at his job and how widely his operational net extended. Whatever Fleming’s precise achievements in Room 39 at the Admiralty Office, he clearly found himself at home in a milieu far more suited to his administrative and imaginative talents than any employment previously offered him. He was a resourceful and consistently adept man-manager at the very centre of the British intelligence machine, Shakespeare concludes, often seen at Bletchley Park and ‘a war-winner’, according to his old boss.