How Real Is James Bond: Former Spy Life Story | DEEP
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2024
- In our brand new DEEP series we interview fascinating people who have lived unique lives. In this episode we have talked to Harry Ferguson, a former British spy, who told us about lifetime of spy work, what is the hardest thing in being a spy.
Thanks to Harry for taking part!
You can follow Harry here: / theenglishspy
And get his book here: amzn.eu/d/hH81oxk
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Skripal was poisoned with Novichok not polonium. Litvinenko was polonium
The special feature of Ian Fleming was his ability to write a story that people would want to read, he was fortunate that being DDNI in WW2 the ideas for stories would flow over his desk every day for all his service time. His stories have credibility, and the excitement that his reader's required.
Dare I ask..favourite Bond?
SOE very for real. They were doing suicide missions - 6 week lifespan for agents was a strong innings. It was a very scary place to live, and the gestapo were killing journalists, historians, and whomsoever they believed to be an enemy combatant. We are talking premier league genocidal government, which is racking up the death toll like they legalised murder. The unconventional warfare offices of the UK were where the stuntmen and bank robbers went to work, and Ian Fleming's lot were considered "more trouble than their worth" by many in the XX counterintelligence office. Fleming's bond shows the ultra casino corruption crew who worked alongside the British and OSS taking down the Nazis, and as such is an exceptional portrayal of the early post war era. It's a good insight, and Fleming is absolutely convincing in his insights of how SOE senior agents were able to operate - autonomous incommunicado infiltration and sabotage operations are by nature improvised and high risk. It's illegal in a warfare context to use operatives of this type, and James Bond's behaviour was considered scandalous in its era - for the nazis these people would have looked like satan himself incarnate, wearing a bow tie, listening to big banf jazz, and drinking martini.
crisping my entire house
I just learned, never trust a spy. also learned being a spy, you have a career where your employer wants to see you succeed.
At a guess Bond has been dramatically important to MI6 simply because Bond stands out, his car(s) women and drinking, plus he must have a hotel room packed full of incriminating gadgets. Assume that a British spy is like Bond, then simply don't notice the grey man or woman who simply does the job, doesn't, get noticed, then vanishes silently. BUT a grey man as Bond wouldn't sell books/films.
There is a theory that Bond is a cover for the Grey Man to get the job done properly...!
came from TikTok, love this, dont stop
90% office work. 10% observing.
Depends on your job within MI6.
Depends on your job within MI6.
Another top upload there deep
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I get the impression that real espionage is usually as exciting as working in a tax office. But when it's not, a spies best weapon or gadget is plausible deniability.
Super interesting vid!
Really pleased you think so!
Excellent.
Thank you for such an engaging and informative chat.
Thank you for watching!
Fleming was basically M. He was the one sending people behind enemy lines during WWII to commit acts of espionage. I'd love for James Bond to go back to the 40s or 50s. Make it a period piece about his origins.
I've had an idea for it for years, whereby the pre-credits sequence is Bond on a mission at the tail end of WWII. By the time he returns for a debrief, Germany has surrendered and the war is over. Post-title sequence, Bond returns to his native Scotland and in the post-war peace, he doesn't know what to do with himself until one day, his old commander comes to visit him, talking about tensions rising with the Russians and a new initiative being spearheaded by British Intelligence called the Double O Programme.
They brushed over it in the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare... but i like were your heads at.
the more i listen to this, the more i think it sounds MORE like the OLD 60's James Bond movies (there was less action and more creative spying and subterfuge , reconing and cover ups, in the old movies) lol. I meen the writer was an mi6 wasn't he? So basically cellphones and smart phones are manifestations of SPY GEAR lol. Vibrating boxes? so you know when youve received a message without making an audible sound? that sounds familiar......i do this all the time at the theatre so the noise is not audible , when im recieving a secret transmission from an associate.
Great video
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Very interesting. Would have loved to hear him comment on Argo and the real events that inspired the film.
Great suggestion! Next time…
Very fascinating and by all counts might as well be perfectly accurate, albeit I might add that you have just seen a description of a profession that deals with assessing and producing deception. This fine chap has maybe "retired" from a profession from which by his own words no person retires and maintains it's secrets. So given his fine health and sound mental state how can I really know that anything he says is actually real and if I choose to accept it as factual , is that the effect he planned and to what end? In any case cool video bro.
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A self imposed epaw that not necessary 😊
James Bond is real. James Bond is not an analyst or a recruiter or officer. James Bond is an agent. James Bond is a disposable asset and his job is to infiltrate elite enemies of Britain. That's why he is allocated a big budget through the treasury which allows him to have what a mission would require. He is also given a license to kill so that he will not be trialled in a UK court.
There is a misnomer that James Bond works for MI6. He doesn't. He actually receives a stipend through his company Universal Exports LTD and checks in with his handler which is M. M as James should never know an officers real identity. Many of the elite movers and shakers are actually their respective countries' versions of James Bond.
The curious case of Jeffrey Epstein (Bond Villain) who went from school teacher to Billionaire, only he was never really a billionaire, he just had a massive budget to entrap other agents.
more than agents apparently
What about the booze and broads?