05-05-2012, 03:26 AM
007, LHO and JFK - By WEK
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007 & LHO
According to the myth, in early 1954, in order to take his mind off impending marriage, Ian Fleming sat down at his typewriter in his Jamaican beach house and began "Casino Royale," a paperback spy thriller novel, that he called "the spy story to end all spy stories."
The former assistant to the chief of British Naval Intelligence christened his secret agent Double-Oh Seven - 007 - James Bond, who was licensed to kill on behalf of her majesty's secret service, while having the cover job of an import-export agent for Universal Export.
Writing a book a year, by 1957 he had a few novels under his belt when he wrote what some considered his finest, "From Russia with Love," about the theft of a Soviet cipher and the defection of a young and beautiful Russian embassy clerk.
A few years later, Lee Harvey Oswald, just out of the US Marine Corps, boarded a tramp steamer in New Orleans and sailed for Europe on the first leg of aj ourney that would take him behind the Iron Curtain as a "defector" to the Soviet Union. The passport that Oswald turned over to the US Embassy in Moscow whenhe announced his defection indicated that his profession was "Import-Export"agent.
In fact, Oswald, before enlisting in the US Marines, did work at an import and export firm in New Orleans. As explained by his brother Robert (Lee A Portrait of Lee,Coward-McCann, 1967, p. 74), "In November (1955) he (Lee) went to work as a messenger and office boy for a shipping company, Gerald F. Tujague, Inc. He made only $130 a month, but it must have seemed like a lot of money to him, since it was his first full-time job. Mother said he was generous with his money … Feeling prosperous, now that he had a regular income, Lee bought other things, too. Mother said he paid $35 for a coat for her, bought a bow and arrow set and gun … I remember that gun … Lee really seemed to enjoy his work at Tujague's for a while. He felt more independent than ever before, and he liked the idea of working for a shipping company. When he first told me about it, he was eager, animated and genuinely enthusiastic. We're sending an order to Portugal this week,' he'd tell me. Or, I received a shipment from Hong Kong, just this morning.' It was a big adventure to him as if all the company's ships were his and he could go to any of the places named on the order blanks he carried from one desk to another. It made him feel important, just to be onthe fringes of something as exciting as foreign trade."
Tujague later came back on the record as a leading member of one of the Free Cuba Committees in New Oreleans and was said to be on the board of directors of a bank that also included John Mecom, who employed George DeMohrenschildt and sent him to Europe, which ledto him being debriefed by the CIA. So both Oswald and DeMohrenschildt, although their lives wouldn't entwine until years later, were both employed by directors of the same bank, an indication they were both working for the same economic interests years earlier.
Was there a reason for Oswald to list his occupation as "import-export agent" on the passport he used to defect to Russia, and was it in any way associated with import-export agency he worked forin New Orleans shortly before enlisting in the Marines?
Or was it some kind of inside joke, tongue in cheek reference to James Bond's occupation as an import-export agent for Universal Export?
In JFK & 007, Less Sanger Golden (alias Author337) perpetuates the myths and takes note of the mutual associations of 007 and Camelot, as well the Oswald connection.
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Golden wrote: "Meanwhile, the James Bond novels were having a huge impact on another young man, Lee Harvey Oswald. He too was a fan of the novel From Russia with Love, a story of political defection that oddly mirrors Oswald's own defection to the Soviet Union. In the story, James Bond wisps the young Russian Tatiana Romonvav across their on curtain with promises of decadent western luxuries. While in Russia, Lee Oswald similarly swept young Marina Prusakova off of her feet and brought her to America with promises of a better life. But when things started going badly, Tatiana and Marina realized that perhaps they were in for more than they had bargained for."
All of Fleming's novels include fictional characters who have real life counterparts, and story lines that are based on real, sometimes historic events, especially "From Russia with Love." It has been noted that in 1950, a US naval attaché was assassinated and thrown from the Orient Express train by a Communist agent, a story that inspired Fleming to write "From Russia With Love."
The story line deals with the theft of a Lektor Decoding Machine, which Fleming based on his knowledge of the Enigma Decoding Machine from World War II. Fleming was involved with the Ultra Network that cracked the Enigma Code in 1939, and Fleming fictionalized the story a decade before the Ultra Network's historical activities were declassified and released 1975.
As Golden also noted other similarities when he wrote: " If JFK represents all the most charming aspects of James Bond, then perhaps Lee Oswald is a reflection of his dark side. His rages, his wrath. The irony inherent in any substantive comparison of JFK and 007 is inescapable. For while James Bond is a timeless figure, JFK was a figure taken before his time. And while James Bond is unkillable, we all that the same cannot be said of Jack Kennedy."
"And yet, the tragic assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on in Dallas Texas on November 22nd 1963, is oddly paralleled in the life and times of James Bond 007. In the novel and film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, James Bond's marriage to Contessa Teresa Vicenzo ended in the same way as Jacqueline Kennedy's marriage to Jack. Just as Jack Kennedy was gunned down by a hail of assassins bullets in his car, so too was Teresa Bond. Just as Jack Kennedy's lifeless body fell into Jackie's lap, so too did Teresa. They say that once the Presidential limousine reached the hospital, Jackie Kennedy refused to let go of her husband's body, even as others entreated her to do so. And when all hope was lost for Contessa Teresa Bond, James Bond too refused to let go. On Her Majesty's Secret Service was published in April of1963, mere months before the assassination."
Oswald would probably be amused by these associations, especially if he knew that, at the time of his defection to the Soviet Union, Ian Fleming had been the European editor of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), whose correspondent reported on his defection to the Soviet Union....
Continued at: JFKcountercoup: 007, LHO & JFK
[URL="http://jfkcountercoup.blogspot.com/2012/05/007-lho-jfk.html"]JFKcountercoup: 007, LHO & JFK
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007 & LHO
According to the myth, in early 1954, in order to take his mind off impending marriage, Ian Fleming sat down at his typewriter in his Jamaican beach house and began "Casino Royale," a paperback spy thriller novel, that he called "the spy story to end all spy stories."
The former assistant to the chief of British Naval Intelligence christened his secret agent Double-Oh Seven - 007 - James Bond, who was licensed to kill on behalf of her majesty's secret service, while having the cover job of an import-export agent for Universal Export.
Writing a book a year, by 1957 he had a few novels under his belt when he wrote what some considered his finest, "From Russia with Love," about the theft of a Soviet cipher and the defection of a young and beautiful Russian embassy clerk.
A few years later, Lee Harvey Oswald, just out of the US Marine Corps, boarded a tramp steamer in New Orleans and sailed for Europe on the first leg of aj ourney that would take him behind the Iron Curtain as a "defector" to the Soviet Union. The passport that Oswald turned over to the US Embassy in Moscow whenhe announced his defection indicated that his profession was "Import-Export"agent.
In fact, Oswald, before enlisting in the US Marines, did work at an import and export firm in New Orleans. As explained by his brother Robert (Lee A Portrait of Lee,Coward-McCann, 1967, p. 74), "In November (1955) he (Lee) went to work as a messenger and office boy for a shipping company, Gerald F. Tujague, Inc. He made only $130 a month, but it must have seemed like a lot of money to him, since it was his first full-time job. Mother said he was generous with his money … Feeling prosperous, now that he had a regular income, Lee bought other things, too. Mother said he paid $35 for a coat for her, bought a bow and arrow set and gun … I remember that gun … Lee really seemed to enjoy his work at Tujague's for a while. He felt more independent than ever before, and he liked the idea of working for a shipping company. When he first told me about it, he was eager, animated and genuinely enthusiastic. We're sending an order to Portugal this week,' he'd tell me. Or, I received a shipment from Hong Kong, just this morning.' It was a big adventure to him as if all the company's ships were his and he could go to any of the places named on the order blanks he carried from one desk to another. It made him feel important, just to be onthe fringes of something as exciting as foreign trade."
Tujague later came back on the record as a leading member of one of the Free Cuba Committees in New Oreleans and was said to be on the board of directors of a bank that also included John Mecom, who employed George DeMohrenschildt and sent him to Europe, which ledto him being debriefed by the CIA. So both Oswald and DeMohrenschildt, although their lives wouldn't entwine until years later, were both employed by directors of the same bank, an indication they were both working for the same economic interests years earlier.
Was there a reason for Oswald to list his occupation as "import-export agent" on the passport he used to defect to Russia, and was it in any way associated with import-export agency he worked forin New Orleans shortly before enlisting in the Marines?
Or was it some kind of inside joke, tongue in cheek reference to James Bond's occupation as an import-export agent for Universal Export?
In JFK & 007, Less Sanger Golden (alias Author337) perpetuates the myths and takes note of the mutual associations of 007 and Camelot, as well the Oswald connection.
[URL="http://jfk007.com/2010/05/31/jfk007/"]JFK007 « ASSASSINATION AGNOSTIC
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Golden wrote: "Meanwhile, the James Bond novels were having a huge impact on another young man, Lee Harvey Oswald. He too was a fan of the novel From Russia with Love, a story of political defection that oddly mirrors Oswald's own defection to the Soviet Union. In the story, James Bond wisps the young Russian Tatiana Romonvav across their on curtain with promises of decadent western luxuries. While in Russia, Lee Oswald similarly swept young Marina Prusakova off of her feet and brought her to America with promises of a better life. But when things started going badly, Tatiana and Marina realized that perhaps they were in for more than they had bargained for."
All of Fleming's novels include fictional characters who have real life counterparts, and story lines that are based on real, sometimes historic events, especially "From Russia with Love." It has been noted that in 1950, a US naval attaché was assassinated and thrown from the Orient Express train by a Communist agent, a story that inspired Fleming to write "From Russia With Love."
The story line deals with the theft of a Lektor Decoding Machine, which Fleming based on his knowledge of the Enigma Decoding Machine from World War II. Fleming was involved with the Ultra Network that cracked the Enigma Code in 1939, and Fleming fictionalized the story a decade before the Ultra Network's historical activities were declassified and released 1975.
As Golden also noted other similarities when he wrote: " If JFK represents all the most charming aspects of James Bond, then perhaps Lee Oswald is a reflection of his dark side. His rages, his wrath. The irony inherent in any substantive comparison of JFK and 007 is inescapable. For while James Bond is a timeless figure, JFK was a figure taken before his time. And while James Bond is unkillable, we all that the same cannot be said of Jack Kennedy."
"And yet, the tragic assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on in Dallas Texas on November 22nd 1963, is oddly paralleled in the life and times of James Bond 007. In the novel and film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, James Bond's marriage to Contessa Teresa Vicenzo ended in the same way as Jacqueline Kennedy's marriage to Jack. Just as Jack Kennedy was gunned down by a hail of assassins bullets in his car, so too was Teresa Bond. Just as Jack Kennedy's lifeless body fell into Jackie's lap, so too did Teresa. They say that once the Presidential limousine reached the hospital, Jackie Kennedy refused to let go of her husband's body, even as others entreated her to do so. And when all hope was lost for Contessa Teresa Bond, James Bond too refused to let go. On Her Majesty's Secret Service was published in April of1963, mere months before the assassination."
Oswald would probably be amused by these associations, especially if he knew that, at the time of his defection to the Soviet Union, Ian Fleming had been the European editor of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), whose correspondent reported on his defection to the Soviet Union....
Continued at: JFKcountercoup: 007, LHO & JFK
