Ian Fleming Part 3: Banks, Tanks, and Navy Ranks. - Ep. 016

As the world moves closer and closer to the outbreak of the Second World War, Ian Fleming finds himself moving from journalism, to merchant banking, to stock broking... And now international intelligence reporting for the Naval Intelligence Division under Rear Admiral John Godfrey? Seriously? What did he do next, evacuate the MI6 headquarters in Paris during the Nazi invasion? Yup, and that's only the half of it. We're finally getting into Ian's involvement with the international spy network during World War II, how his involvement with the Naval Intelligence Division proved invaluable to the Allied war effort, and how his experiences during the war would spark a fire of imagination that would soon create the ultimate secret agent: James Bond.