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- From: jac54@cas.org ()
- Subject: Re: "Moonraker" -- fact or fiction?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.153020.14391@cas.org>
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- Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
- References: <1hjhhgINN7q0@news.cerf.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:30:20 GMT
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- In article <1hjhhgINN7q0@news.cerf.net> eidetics@nic.cerf.net (Eidetics Int'l) writes:
- >
- > In writing his stories, Ian Fleming was drawing upon his own
- >secret weapon. That weapon was knowledge. Fleming had been a
- >high-ranking officer of Britain's crack Intelligence agency
- >called MI-5.
-
- This is, in fact, nonsense. Flemings contribution to
- intelligence was to act as a paper-pusher for Stephensons'
- BSC in New York. He had no training in, and never was, an
- intelligence officer of any form. He was, by all accounts,
- an irritating little intel.-groupie.
-
- The rest of this post is nonsense that even Munchhausen would
- be ashamed to come up with.
-
- Alec Chambers
-