<Table> <Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Dates </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Cotton! Sidney Cotton </Th> <Td> 000000001894 - 06 - 17 - 0000 17 June 1894--13 February 1969 </Td> <Td> Cotton was born in Australia and moved to England to serve in the Royal Naval Air Service . He was a close friend of Fleming during the Second World War . After having served as a pilot in the First World War, Cotton worked for MI6 photographing German factories, military installations and airfields from a camera hidden in a plane's fuselage . He would also openly take photographs of installations using people as cover for doing so--including Hitler's deputy, Hermann Göring . Cotton also flew the last civilian plane out of Berlin at the outbreak of the Second World War, taking pictures of the German navy as he did so . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Dalzel - Job! Patrick Dalzel - Job </Th> <Td> 000000001913 - 06 - 01 - 0000 1 June 1913--14 October 2003 </Td> <Td> Naval intelligence officer and commando of the Second World War, Dalzel - Job was also an accomplished linguist, author, mariner, navigator, parachutist, diver and skier and knew Fleming through his service with 30AU . Like Bond, he had a rebellious streak when he disagreed with orders on points of principle . A modest man, when once asked about the connection with Bond he replied: "I have never read a Bond book or seen a Bond movie . They are not my style...And I only loved one woman and I'm not a drinking man ." </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Dunderdale! Wilfred (Biffy) Dunderdale </Th> <Td> 000000001899 - 12 - 24 - 0000 24 December 1899--13 November 1990 </Td> <Td> The MI6 head of station in Paris, Dunderdale would regularly dine at Maxim's; he drove an armour - plated Rolls - Royce and dressed in handmade suits and Cartier cufflinks . Dunderdale was a bon viveur who enjoyed attractive women and fast cars and was a friend of Fleming's during the Second World War . He also played a key role in the cracking of the Enigma code . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Fleming! Peter Fleming </Th> <Td> 000000001907 - 05 - 31 - 0000 31 May 1907--18 August 1971 </Td> <Td> Ian Fleming's elder brother, and wartime expert of military intelligence and irregular warfare . He spent time behind enemy lines in Norway and Greece during the war . He also spent time in Delhi, organising deception plans to fool the Imperial Japanese Army . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Glen! Sandy Glen </Th> <Td> 000000001912 - 04 - 18 - 0000 18 April 1912--6 March 2004 </Td> <Td> Glen was a former Arctic explorer who worked with Fleming in Naval Intelligence . Like Bond, Glen went to Fettes College and had Scottish antecedents . Glen distanced himself from the connection, saying "I don't think it's true for a moment; I'm far too gentle, too law - abiding ." </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Hudson! Duane Hudson </Th> <Td> 000000001910 - 08 - 11 - 0000 11 August 1910--1 November 1995 </Td> <Td> Hudson spent much of the Second World War behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia, initially with the British Secret Service and subsequently with the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Hudson survived assassination attempts and recruited a network of agents to blow up Axis shipping--blowing up an Italian ship single - handedly . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Maclean! Fitzroy Maclean </Th> <Td> 000000001911 - 03 - 11 - 0000 11 March 1911--15 June 1996 </Td> <Td> During World War II Maclean was a British agent in Yugoslavia and friend (and biographer) of Josip Broz Tito, as well as a member of the Special Air Service, active in North Africa and Yugoslavia . Although a number of media sources at the time of his death suggested that he was a model for Bond, he denied the rumour, a view shared by Fleming's biographer, Andrew Lycett . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Michael Mason </Th> <Td>--</Td> <Td> Mason ran away from his wealthy family at an early age to go to Canada where he worked as a trapper and professional boxer . At the outbreak of war he worked in then - neutral Bucharest where he killed two German agents who were trying to assassinate him . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Minshall! Merlin Minshall </Th> <Td> 000000001906 - 12 - 21 - 0000 21 December 1906--3 September 1987 </Td> <Td> Minshall was a fellow member of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and was known to Fleming through his work in naval intelligence . In 1940 he joined the SOE and waged guerrilla warfare against the Nazis in France and Yugoslavia . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> O'Brien - ffrench! Conrad O'Brien - ffrench </Th> <Td> 000000001893 - 11 - 19 - 0000 19 November 1893--23 October 1986 </Td> <Td> O'Brien - ffrench was a distinguished British secret intelligence officer, decorated army officer, skier, mountaineer, linguist, traveller and artist . He met Fleming in Austria in the 1930s while working for Claude Dansey's "Z" network gathering information on German troop movements . In 1918, Stewart Menzies recruited Conrad into MI6 who then undertook clandestine missions abroad . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Popov! Duško Popov </Th> <Td> 000000001912 - 07 - 10 - 0000 10 July 1912--10 August 1981 </Td> <Td> Popov was a Serbian triple agent of VOA (code named "Duško"), MI6 (code named "Tricycle") and the Abwehr (code named "Ivan"). Fleming knew Popov and followed him in Lisbon, Portugal as an escort appointed by the MI6, witnessing an event in the Estoril Casino where Popov placed a bet of $40,000 ($700,000 in 2017 dollars) in order to cause a rival to withdraw from a baccarat table: Fleming used this episode as the basis for Casino Royale . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Reilly! Sidney Reilly </Th> <Td> 000000001873 - 03 - 24 - 0000 24 March 1873--5 November 1925 </Td> <Td> Reilly was an agent for Scotland Yard's Special Branch and the British Secret Service Bureau . In 1918, Reilly was employed by Sir Mansfield Smith - Cumming as an operative for MI1 (c), an early designation for the MI6 . Reilly's friend Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart knew Fleming for many years and told him of Reilly's espionage adventures; Fleming subsequently mentioned to a colleague at The Sunday Times that he had created Bond after hearing about Reilly . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Smithers! Peter Smithers </Th> <Td> 000000001913 - 12 - 09 - 0000 9 December 1913--8 June 2006 </Td> <Td> Sir Peter Smithers, who was known to Fleming, organised passage for British refugees from France as the Nazis advanced through France . Later, as a naval attaché, he worked in Washington on spreading disinformation about the Nazis . He spent part of the war working in Naval Intelligence; Fleming later named a character in Goldfinger after him . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Stephenson! William Stephenson </Th> <Td> 000000001897 - 01 - 23 - 0000 23 January 1897--31 January 1989 </Td> <Td> William Stephenson was an international spymaster, best known by his code name, Intrepid; A Canadian WWI soldier, ace fighter pilot, entrepreneur, inventor and international millionaire businessman, Stephenson, a Knight Bachelor, would by 1940 become the head of the British Security Coordination, an MI6 organisation based in New York, and an advisor to Churchill and Roosevelt . His WWI Military Cross and Distinguished Flying Cross citations note his daring and initiative in causing casualties and chaos behind enemy lines, and proficiency in providing military intelligence . Shot down late in 1918, he would become a prisoner of war but was able to escape internment . Among many later initiatives after establishing himself across many lines of international commerce in the 1920 and 30s, he provided first hand information on German treaty violations and war preparations to Winston Churchill in the 1930s, and established and ran the Allies Camp X spy training facility during WWII . He was instrumental in the development of important spycraft and tools . Regarding him, Fleming wrote in The Sunday Times of 21 October 1962, that Bond was: "a highly romanticized version of a true spy . The real thing, the man who became one of the great agents of the (Second World War) is William Stephenson ." </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Yeo - Thomas! Forest Yeo - Thomas </Th> <Td> 000000001902 - 06 - 17 - 0000 17 June 1902--26 February 1964 </Td> <Td> Wing Commander Forest Yeo - Thomas was a British field agent code named "White Rabbit" for the SOE . His missions for the SOE involved him parachuting multiple times in enemy occupied France . In his memoirs, Fleming wrote of his fascination with the missions Thomas conducted behind enemy lines, such as having dinner with Nazis, the use of disguises, being captured and interrogated by the Gestapo before escaping, shooting an enemy agent, as well as having relationships with different women . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Dates </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Cotton! Sidney Cotton </Th> <Td> 000000001894 - 06 - 17 - 0000 17 June 1894--13 February 1969 </Td> <Td> Cotton was born in Australia and moved to England to serve in the Royal Naval Air Service . He was a close friend of Fleming during the Second World War . After having served as a pilot in the First World War, Cotton worked for MI6 photographing German factories, military installations and airfields from a camera hidden in a plane's fuselage . He would also openly take photographs of installations using people as cover for doing so--including Hitler's deputy, Hermann Göring . Cotton also flew the last civilian plane out of Berlin at the outbreak of the Second World War, taking pictures of the German navy as he did so . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Dalzel - Job! Patrick Dalzel - Job </Th> <Td> 000000001913 - 06 - 01 - 0000 1 June 1913--14 October 2003 </Td> <Td> Naval intelligence officer and commando of the Second World War, Dalzel - Job was also an accomplished linguist, author, mariner, navigator, parachutist, diver and skier and knew Fleming through his service with 30AU . Like Bond, he had a rebellious streak when he disagreed with orders on points of principle . A modest man, when once asked about the connection with Bond he replied: "I have never read a Bond book or seen a Bond movie . They are not my style...And I only loved one woman and I'm not a drinking man ." </Td> </Tr>

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