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Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye - Keeping Spain out of World War II (Paperback)
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Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye - Keeping Spain out of World War II (Paperback)
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Loot Price R323
Discovery Miles 3 230
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This book tells the story of the various Allied operations and
schemes instigated to keep Spain and Portugal out of WWII, which
included the widespread bribery of high ranking Spanish officials
and the duplicity of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr.
Ian Fleming and Alan Hillgarth were the architects of Operation
Golden Eye, the sabotage and disruption scheme that would be put in
place had Germany invaded Spain. Fleming visited the Iberian
Peninsula and Tangiers several times during the war, arguably his
greatest achievement in WWII and the closest he came to being a
real secret agent. It was these visits which supplied much of the
background material for his fiction - Fleming even called his home
on Jamaica where he created 007 'Goldeneye'. The book begins with
Hitler's dilemma about which way to move, and his meeting with
Francisco Franco at Hendaye in October 1940, a major turning point
in the war when an alliance between Germany and Spain seemed
possible. Simmons explores the British reaction to this, with
Operation Tracer being created by Admiral Godfrey, head of Naval
Intelligence. This was a plan to leave a listening and observation
post buried in the Rock of Gibraltar should it have fallen to the
Germans. A chapter is also devoted to Portugal - the SIS and SOE
operations there and the vital Wolfram wars. Operation Golden Eye
was eventually put on standby in 1943 as the risk of the Nazis
occupying Spain was much reduced. Simmons consulted Foreign Office,
SOE, CIA and OKW files when writing this book.
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