Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye

Keeping Spain out of World War II

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Pub Date 19 Nov 2018 | Archive Date 07 Jan 2019

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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 - 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.’

Starting with Hitler’s dilemma about which direction to move his forces 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. Like something out of a James Bond story, this plan was to leave a listening and observation post buried in the Rock of Gibraltar should it have fallen to the Germans.

Also told here is 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, as well as Special Intelligence and Special Operations in Portugal.

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...


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