Shaken but not
Stirred:
Or
Unblended
Bonds
An
examination of
the Cinematic Adventures
of James Bond
By
Dennis E. Power
CASINO ROYALE (1954 and 1967)
VT Deal the Blood Red Death*
Although the first James Bond film was Dr.
No, the
first book was Casino Royale. As it
happens the
first film to take place in our discussion is also Casino Royale,
both versions. First let me state that although these film versions Casino
Royale (1954) and Casino Royale (1967) contain
elements
of the Fleming novel they have little connection with the events or
characters
of the novel. The James Bond in both film versions is a different James
Bond than 007 although these versions
make it into our
study because they are related to James Bond, 007.
The James Bond genealogical
chart
provided in Win Eckert's James
Bond Chronology, was derived in part
from
information given to John Pearson in the James Bond, Authorized
Biography
of 007, information taken from Role of Honor and
Ice
Breaker by John Gardner and from The
League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore. However the Bond
family
genealogy given to Mr. Pearson is neither complete nor entirely
accurate.
Commander Bond was not entirely forthcoming to John Pearson about his
family
due to some ignorance of relationships, for personal reasons due to
estrangement from his relatives and also due to the needs of national
security.
The Bonds had been in Secret Service for longer than James Bond let on.
James Bond's great uncle
Campion Bond was
a highly placed agent working directly under one of the current M's
during the
later part of the Nineteenth and first part of the Twentieth Century.
Like his
nephew Great Nephew Campion Bond often did rather despicable acts for
the sake
of King and Country. However unlike 007, Campion enjoyed the intrigue
and
duplicity that came with working in the shadow wars. This is not
surprising
considered that his superior, the M in charge of his section was
Professor
James Moriarty. Moriarty had been recruited by the black section of the
BSS
when in his late twenties after the murder of his mistress Emily Caber
and two
of their children. Initially he was recruited by what he believed was
he
British Secret Service to undergo a mission that would also bring
vengeance to
the killers of his family. James Moriarty infiltrated an international
operation,
which was building a fleet of submersible vessels and even lent his
genius to
their design. It was not until he and some of his hand picked henchmen
had
successfully destroyed the ship building facility, destroyed all of the
plans
to create the vessels engines, sunk all of the partially completed
submersibles, sabotaged the first completed vessel and escaped in the
Nautilus,
the submersible with his design, that
he learned
that he had been recruited by group of extra-terrestrials. (1)
At their behest and in return
for a
thousand years of life, he played a crucial role in their quest to
bring about
an end to war by using the stolen submersible to attack ships of war
from 1866.
In 1868 an agent from a rival extraterrestrial group sank the
submersible and
Nemo and part of his crew barely managed to escape with their lives.
Between
1868 and 1870 he carried out several missions for the
extraterrestrials, who
were also working hand in hand with several of the Secret Services in
the
world, among them the British Secret Service. At the behest of the BSS
and his
extraterrestrial sponsors, Moriarty carried out a mission for them in
India,
Afghanistan and Russia. He was forced to flee to Siberia. A fleeting
acquaintance with a Siberian lady resulted in a child named Grigori
Yefimovich
Rasputin. (2)
In 1870, James Moriarty
returned to
England and established himself as a Professor once more. He also
remained an
active agent of the Capelleans and the BSS. It was the latter's idea
that he
would use his vast organizational skills to establish an underworld
empire for
the good of the nation. The monies garnered from the underworld
operation would
be used to fund various operations which the Crown could not or would
not
knowingly fund. The underworld contacts would also provide a source of
manpower, the sort who would carry out any sort of task for monetary
gain.
In 1873, his Capellean superiors
once again was set James Moriarty on a mission which would
thwart the
plans of the Eridaneans once and for all. This once again placed him in
direct
opposition to the man who had sunk his beloved submersible. The episode
ended
with a stalemate and Moriarty was informed that he was the new Head of
the
Capellean organization. (3)
So while a sitting Professor,
James
Moriarty became M of Section Black of the BSS, the head of an
extraterrestrial
cabal and also became the Napoleon of Crime. His rival in the BSS was a man who while a pragmatist also felt that
certain acts
were uncivilized and criminal. This man was Mycroft Holmes, one of his
former
students. Moriarty was plagued by another Holmes who continually
attempted to
stop his "criminal" plans. Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes met in a
fatal clash at the Reichenbach Falls in 1891.
(4)
Before 1891, Moriarty never had any offices in any official
British
building and operated out of his home on Russell Square, as seen in The
Great Game (as well as many more secret lairs) as related in
the
March-April 1891 entry of the Wold Newton
Crossover
Chronology Before 1891, he was both a criminal mastermind and
in
charge of the British black ops group. After 1894, Moriarty moved
into
the offices at Whitehall
(seen in The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) and his activities became
more open,
so that by 1898, Mycroft Holmes knew of Moriarty's role in the Secret
Service,
although he was powerless to do anything about it.
To thwart the early efforts
of the Devil
Doctor, James Moriarty had Campion Bond recruit some bizarre personages
whom
could be considered expendable. These were John Hawley Griffin- the
psychotic
invisible man, Mina Murray -the victim of a vampiric rape, Allan
Quatermain-a
washed up game hunter and explorer, Dr. Henry Jekyll- a man who changed
into
his bestial half, and Moriarty's old enemy, Prince Dakkar. (5) Although the mission was
successful, at the
end of it Moriarty disappeared for a
time and
was believed dead. Campion Bond was placed in temporary charge of the
Black
branch. Ultimately Mycroft Holmes' section absorbed the Black section
branch
and he became the next M. Mycroft had lost much of his idealism of his
youth
and became convinced that brutal, barbaric acts were sometimes needed
to
preserve the Empire's interests.
Campion Bond was sent to America
for an extended tour of duty. This was in essence an exile. He married
a
redheaded woman named Alicia Fagin. (6)
They had a
son named James in 1909. He was called Jimmy Bond. Although was highly
intelligent and had a great desire to follow his father in the
espionage
business, he was rather inept at it. His first mission was to befriend
an oily
young French gambler named Emil Artoff. The BSS thought that Artoff's
constant
travels through Europe would make him a good
candidate
to be a courier or information source. Jimmy however became entranced
by a
female player and to show off he used the system they had set up to
help Artoff
win against him. Jimmy wiped Artoff
out. Jimmy
Bond later claimed that before Jimmy allowed Artoff to win he wanted to
instill
in Artoff a friendly rivalry which would create a great desire to beat
Bond. He
failed. Jimmy also slept with the female player, who turned out to be
Artoff's
wife.
Instead of having feelings of
amenity
towards the British, Artoff despised them. This incident took place in
1939, in
Monte Carlo. (7) Jimmy Bond was working for the BSS
despite his
American birth. Because his father had been an agent and regarded by
some as a
brilliant one, Jimmy was given a great deal of leeway although he was
considered
a bit inferior, being an American and a bungling one at that.
Jimmy's next assignment took
him to Spain
where he was gathering information on the possibility that the Third
Reich
would launch an offensive toward Britain and the United States from
there. A
victorious Francisco Franco demonstrated his strength by rounding up
important
dissidents. Jimmy Bond managed to get captured and shot by a firing
squad.
Reports surfaced in mid-1942
however that
Jimmy Bond had survived the firing squad and was being held a captive
in Lyons
or Marseilles in Vichy France.
Since the war was in full
swing, most of
the BSS agents were involved in many more important projects than
investigating
the reports that one of their more inept agents was still alive. Since
however
there was a personal connection which involved one of the BSS' former
top
agents the current M, Angus McTarry, visited Sir James Bond at his home
in
Southern England. (8)
The history of Sir James Bond
is thus.
Although he did not become Sir James Bond until 1925, I will call him
this to
distinguish him from James Bond 007. Sir James Bond was the nephew of
Campion
Bond and the son of Ian Bond. He was the cousin of Andrew Bond and
therefore
was an older second cousin of the James Bond that Ian Fleming wrote
about. He
was born in 1880. Sir James Bond had attended Eton and Cambridge. Sir
James
Bond, although he was not a Sir as of yet, had shed most of his
Scottish
upbringing had become to all appearances an upper-class English
gentlemen. The
only remnant of his background was that when excited or agitated his
Scottish
burr crept into his speech. Sir James quickly learned to cover this
with a
supposed stammer. (9)
In Cambridge Sir James
studied zoology,
botany and music. He became adept at the latter, almost skilled enough
to
become a concert pianist. Yet zoology and botany were his true
passions. His
first zoological trip, while actually still attending Cambridge but on
a field
trip was to South Africa in 1899. He got caught up in the Boer War and
was
trapped in the village of Mafeking with Colonel Baden-Powell. He became
great
friends with Baden-Powell.(10) His
facility with
language and his studied knowledge of the the local flora and fauna
were
instrumental in helping to keep the besieged village from falling into
the
enemy hands. In three of the major
skirmishes,
Sir James distinguished himself in combat, twice braving enemy fire to
rescue
fallen comrades. After Mafeking had been relieved and the siege broke,
Sir
James continued his way to the West Coast. Within a month he was once
again
caught up in an armed conflict, the Ashanti War of 1900. Once again he
distinguished himself in combat and was able to use his language and
social
skills to bring about a swift conclusion to the uprising. (11)
After Sir James returned to England he finished
his
studies and after graduating he traveled the world seeking to catalog
unknown
species of flora and fauna in British Colonies for a series of
scientific books
he had planned entitled Flora and Fauna of the British Colonies.
In
India he became acquainted with a young trader named Kimball O'Hara.
O'Hara was
a Colonial born and raised in India. After Kimball helped Sir James out
of a
jam concerning a misunderstanding of the caste system, Sir James did
not mind
doing favors for O'Hara. These favors consisted of Sir James using his
keen
sense of observation to keep an eye for foreign traders that might cut
into
O'Hara's business as Sir James traveled about the countryside.
On one of his travels, Sir
James fell
afoul of some Russian traders who tried to take him captive, or failing
that,
to kill him. Sir James killed his would be captors and extricated
himself from
the situation. O'Hara had not thought that Sir James would be in any
danger.
O'Hara revealed that he was a member of the British Secret Service. He
was in
fact the person upon whom Kipling had based his novel Kim. (12)
Sir James became an
agent-at-large of the
British Secret Service. Although James eventually found a position as a
zoologist with the British Museum of Natural History, this was also
part of his
cover as well as a true employment. His assignment with the British
Museum of
Natural History was to undertake a survey of how the recent rapid
industrialization and urban growth in Europe had affected plant and
animal
life. In the course of his work he visited all of the major European
capitals
for extensive periods of time. He became fluent in most European
languages.
In 1912 he received a belated Victoria Cross
for his
actions during the Siege of Mafeking. Sir Baden-Powell had lobbied long
and
hard for Sir James to receive one. Finally it had not gone unnnoted.
While in France he met and
befriended the
famed dancer and courtesan Mata Hari. (13)
They
had a mutual interest in music, Hindu philosophy and... each
other. The two became great friends and lovers. Their love affair began
in 1910
in Paris. In 1914 When James had to move to Berlin to begin making his
zoological survey there she contrived to follow him. In Berlin however
her act
was deemed lewd and the German police arrested her. It was shortly
after this
that she disappeared from James life for a couple of years.
Mata Hari was given the
choice of
becoming the lover of Berlin's Chief of Police or having her British
boyfriend
retained indefinitely. She chose the former to keep James out of the
clutches
of the German police. Having seen how pliable she was the German Secret
Service
extorted Mata into becoming a spy for them They
promised that they would give her the one thing in the world she truly
wished.
This was her daughter Non, who was held in
the custody
of Mata Hari's former husband, Rudolph Macleod. (14)
Mata Hari was sent to a
notorious German
spy school and given the code name of H-21. Mata Hari
became swept up in a morass of espionage in which she was
extorted and
victimized by three competing espionage organizations, the Germans,
Russians
and French. Whereas Sydney Reilly learned how to the play the
game easily
and played all of his employers against one another, Mata Hari became
like a
bone tossed about by curs. Russia managed to get incriminating evidence
that
she was spying for Germany and forced her to work for them. They set
her up as
the lover of a young Russian soldier named Vladmir Masloff, called
Vadim. He
was her contact. France became suspicious of her activities with German
and
Russian citizens and offered her a chance to spy for them against
Germany. Mata
Hari tried to play each of her "sponsors" against each other but each
move she made seemed to work against her. All she really wished to do
was to be
free of these competing forces, get custody of her daughter and be with
Sir
James.
While traveling to Brussels
on a mission
for the French, Mata Hari needed to stop over in Britain, taking a
circuitous
route because of the war. The British forced her to return to Spain.
The
British became interested in Mata Hari and sent an agent with a known
connection to her to investigate. The agent was Sir James Bond. He
followed
Mata Hari to Spain. They rekindled their passionate affair for a short
time in
Madrid until Sir James was given information that proved Mata Hari was
meeting
with Lieutenant Wilhelm Canaris
of the
German Secret Service. (15) According to
the
French, Mata was also the lover of a German Major Arnold Kalle. Jealous
and
feeling betrayed Sir James left her to her own devices and let the
British know
she was a definitely an agent for the Germans. He did not know that at
the time
she was pregnant with his child.
Her German "lover" Arnold
Kalle
however was, like Vladmir Masloff, more of an espionage contact rather
than an
actual lover. Kalle believed that Mata was a French agent. He began
planting
misinformation with her and mentioned her in his reports using a code
that the
Germans knew that the French had already broken. Mata Hari gave birth
to a
child in Madrid. This child was placed with friends of Mata Hari who
lived in
Belgium. After the birth of her child Mata Hari returned to Paris.
Depressed
and short of cash, she drifted into affairs with several men. One of
short term
affairs of the heart was a young Belgian soldier Henri Defense. This
was the
nom de guerre of Indiana Jones. Despite his efforts he could not
extricate Mata
Hari from the web of suspicion and duplicity that swirled around her.
When Mata Hari returned to
France she
tried to use the information she had gathered in Madrid but Georges
Ladoux said
it was outdated and refused to pay her. The French believed that the
false
information that Mata Hari had given them along with the mention of her
in
German messages proved that she was an active German agent pretending
to be a
French agent. She was arrested in 1917 by French authorities.
The couple taking care of
Mata Hari's and
James Bond's daughter was almost immediately placed under "protective
custody" by the German Secret Service, in effect making the child a
hostage. Mata Hari tried to play the innocent and denied any German
connections. Her silence saved her child's life but cost her life. She
was executed
by firing squad on October 15, 1917. James Bond had visited her the day
before.
She revealed all to him including the birth of and location of their
daughter,
Margrete Bond.
It was not until the end of
the war that
Sir James was able to get to Brussels by this time the couple taking
care of
the child had left. Using his cover identity and actual occupation of a
zoologist, James Bond traveled to Malaysia, India, Tibet, Afghanistan
and other
regions on East Asia on the trail of his daughter and her foster
parents. He
was never able to catch up with them.
After Mata Hari's death much
of the
excitement and thrill of working for the British Secret Service died in
Sir
James Bond. Yet he stayed connect to them because his government
contacts made
it easier for him to travel and obtain information about possible leads
concerning his daughter. While traveling about in some of the poorest
and
disease ridden areas of the Empire Sir James discovered a deeper
commitment to
humanity. He started organizations that aided and educated lower class
British
Colonials and natives of the various colonies he visited.
Sir James was knighted in
1925 for
various charitable acts he had undertaken in his travels through India
and
Afghanistan but mainly for his secret efforts in preventing a Soviet
inspired
Second Indian Mutiny.
In 1926, Sir James Bond
retired from the
British Secret Service to a small estate he purchased in Southern
England. He
spent the time between 1926 and 1941 writing several books and treatise
on
botanical and zoological matters. He fenced off his estate and created
various
designs for zoological parks which had more naturalistic environments
for the
animals to live. He had large cats and various other animals roaming in
large
fenced in tracts of his estate. Sir James also had a hot house in which
he
tried gardening and breeding varieties of high protein vegetables and
cereals
that would grow in arid environments. He practiced his concert piano
every day
from dusk to dark. (16)
His former superiors at the
British
Secret Service were scandalized that an agent of his talents was
wasting his
time puttering around in his garden.
When Angus McTarry, the
current M
approached Sir James Bond about the possibility of him investigating
Jimmy
Bond's disappearance Sir James at first refused. Despite McTarry's
urging for
him to reconsider, Sir James remained steadfast. As McTarry's car drove
away
from Sir James estate, it exploded and damaged the front of the house.
Sir
James took an active role in the case. The interim M (Sir Henry
Merrivale) sent
Sir James to attend McTarry's funeral and see if clues to the
assassination
could be found. The counter espionage section was uncertain as to
whether the
target of the assassination had been McTarry, McTarry and Bond or just
Bond
with McTarry as being incidental. They were also uncertain if it had
something
to do with the Jimmy Bond case. (17)
At McTarry's funeral a sniper
shot at Sir
James Bond. Although he escaped harm he remained alert yet not alert enough to escape a jet of knock out gas
squirted from
a bagpipe. Sir James awakened in what was purported to be McTarry's
castle. In a episode worthy of Malory, all
of the serving staff were
attractive and scantily clad young women purportedly McTarry's
daughters,
although they all had atrocious Scottish accents. Presiding over them
was a
beautiful mature woman who called herself Lady Fiona McTarry and
claimed to be
McTarry's widow.
The castle staff went to
considerable
effort to charm, cajole or seduce information out of Sir James. They
suffered
from the disbelief that Sir James knew more about the current British
Secret
Service and its operations that he actually did. Despite the great
temptation,
Sir James resisted their attentions, which only made them redouble
their
efforts. He hoped that by challenging them and resisting them and yet
remaining
flirtatious he could gather information from them.
Sir James discovered by
various slips of
the tongue, over heard conversations and eavesdropping that the castle
was not McTarry Castle
but rather the infamous
Boleskine House owned by the occultist Aleister Crowley. Crowley
was a long time Teutonophile. He had been soundly rebuked for his
pro-German
stance during the Great War. It was well known that he considered Adolf
Hitler
as something of a protege of his. Yet when the war broke out, Aleister
Crowley
suddenly became very anti-German.
Sir James allowed himself to
be seduced
by Lady McTarry under the guise of consoling the widow. During the
throes of
passion she revealed that her native tongue was French.
Sir James confronted her
about the slip
when their tryst had ended. Lady McTarry revealed that she was a Vichy
agent named Mimi. She claimed that he had kindled a passion in her for
him and
she wished to help him escape. Although he doubted her story, he played
along.
They escaped from Boleskine Castle.
Although they had a head start, they were pursued. Sir James was not
certain if
the pursuit was real or staged.
Mimi said she had become part
of the Vichy
espionage force because she had been forced. The Nazi's had threatened
her
parents' lives. Mimi had been an actress prior to her new profession.
She
further revealed that she believed that Sir James provided the best
means of
escape from her situation. Although she loved her parents she had
severe qualms
about her work in espionage and about the super weapon that Dr. Noah
was
creating. The Nazi's believed it would give them a swift and certain
victory. The
Nazis and Vichy were after
Sir
James because they wanted to know to how much he knew about the Jimmy
Bond and
Dr. Noah connection.
As they were making their way
across the
Scottish border, sniper hit Sir James in the side, cracking a rib. Mimi
was hit
directly in the chest and killed immediately. Sir James played dead and
killed
the sniper when he came to check on his work. (18)
In London Sir James met with
Sir Henry
Merrivale and a man named Maddox. Maddox shook Sir James hand
enthusiastically.
Maddox told Sir James he had helped to
carry on
the great tradition of the Bond family in the Intelligence service by
bringing
Sir James younger cousin into the organization. Sir James was a bit
confused at
first thinking Maddox was referring to Jimmy Bond but Maddox was
instead
talking about Sir James' cousin Andrew's son. Whom to be honest, Sir
James knew
nothing about until that very moment. The Bonds were not a tightly knit
family. (19)
Sir James Bond and Sir
Merrivale decided
that it might be best for Sir James to follow up on some information
that Agent
Mimi had disclosed to him. The disappearance and reappearance of Jimmy
Bond and
his connection to the mysterious Dr. Noah was taking on sinister
proportions.
Sir James entered Occupied
France
incognito posing as a French naturalist named Evrard Tremblent. (20) He traveled to Paris
and began making discreet inquiries as to the whereabouts of either
Jimmy Bond
or Dr. Noah. A person answering Jimmy Bond's description was a rather
well
known frequenter of various casinos, nightclubs, cabarets and brothels.
Sir James compiled a list of
places Jimmy
Bond was rumored to frequent and began visiting them. At one of the
nightclubs
on the list he spotted a woman entertainer who did an exotic strip
tease. Her
stage name was Tani Hari; Daughter of the Sun. Tani was a dead ringer
for
Margaretha Zelle, the infamous Mata Hari. After her performance, he saw
her
chatting socially with Nazi officers and also some well dressed French
men who
were probably Vichy
politicos of
some sort. Sir James also realized that she communicated clandestinely
to
members in the audience in quick whispers.
When the nightclub closed,
she begged off
an assignation with a Nazi officer. Sir James followed her to a small
house
next to a park. The house was surrounded by a stone fence
He wondered if she had chosen the site because it gave her a
wide view
of the surrounding area.
Steeling himself, he knocked
on her door.
A spy hole opened and a voice asked who he was in French. He replied
that he
was Bond, Sir James Bond. He wanted to talk about her mother and about
his
cousin.
Sir James was granted
entrance. The door
opened into a large dance studio, along the
sides were
practice bars and mats. On the walls were racks of swords and exotic
eastern
weapons from India,
Malaysia
and
the Philippines.
Sir James was met with a slap
to the
face, followed through by a kick to the groin.
Forced to defend himself, he
managed to
hold his own despite her youth and athleticism. Unable to physically
overpower
him, she dove to the side and snatched a sword from the rack and held
it to his
throat.
She asked him who he thought
her mother
was and who his cousin was.
He said Mata Hari and Jimmy
Bond. He
explained how he knew Mata Hari and why he was looked for Jimmy Bond.
Tani lowered the sword and
replaced it on
the wall rack. Leaving the room she returned in a moment with an old,
much worn
photograph. Gazing intently at the photograph and at him, she frowned.
Finally she asked if this is
what it took
for him to find his own daughter.
Sir James was shocked to
realize that
although Tani looked remarkably like Margaretha, she also had the Bond
jaw.
Sir James told her how he had
looked for
her for years, all through India,
Tibet,
Nepal
and Malaysia
and Thailand.
Tani smiled and said she
knew. Her foster
parents had thought he was an agent of the Kaiser or the Nazis come to
kill
them. They had traveled all over the world and finally ended up in the Netherlands.
Margrete had gone to the University
of Amsterdam and received
degrees
in Anthropology and Linguistics. She returned to Tibet and Nepal
to gather material for her doctorate. While in Tibet
she ran into some Nazi's searching for the Holy Grail. Over their cups
in a
small tavern in Nepal,
they told her of the Fuhrer's plan for Europe.
Tani hurried back to the Netherlands.
Despite the Nazi's claims there was no apparent danger until the
German's
invaded in 1940. While many of the Dutch fled to England,
Tani fled to France
only to once again have the Germans invade. The Germans knew her
identity and
they considered an honorary citizen of the Third Reich, due to her
mother's
sacrifice for the German people. Since she started out with good terms
with the
Nazi conquerors, Tani decided to use this to an advantage. Contacting
the
fledgling elements of the French Resistance she played the dangerous
game of
double agent. She often needed to give the German's useful information
to keep
her credibility. Fortunately she had only been forced to disclose the
identities of two people who were subsequently killed by the Nazis. The
Resistance believed them to have been blackmarketeers and so expendible.
Tani had heard of Jimmy Bond
and his
connection with Dr. Noah but she did not know what it was. She knew
that Jimmy
Bond had been in Spain
gathering information on the possibility that the Third Reich would
launch an
offensive toward Britain
and the United States
from there. The Nationalist Secret Police had discovered who Jimmy Bond
was and
whom he was working for. After the Spanish had interrogated him, they
turned
him over to the Germans. They wrung everything they could get out of
him. A
woman named Buena Muslos nursed him back to health. (21)
She had also turned him, nursing his resentment against England,
which had always treated him as a foreigner and towards his family who
had
treated him as an outsider.
Jimmy Bond became a National
Socialist
and worked with Dr. Noah on a weapon that would bring victory to the
third
Reich. Jimmy was chosen to work with Dr. Noah because of his background
as a
biologist. Also because the pure Aryans wished to
have
nothing to do with Dr. Noah.
Margrete, to use Tani's real
name,
arranged for Sir James to meet with an important contact with the
French
Resistance who used the code-name Vous pouvez me voir si prêt
or Vouspret
for short. Sir James is taken to the Ritz hotel where the contact has a
suite.
Vouspret was immediately attracted to Sir James. Vouspret arranged for
Sir
James to meet with a man named Coopère. He was a liaison between
many factions
of the French Resistance which although in its infancy was growing. (22)
Coopère said that a
gambler named Emil
Artoff knew a great deal about Dr. Noah and Jimmy Bond. He hated the
latter
with a great intensity. Emil Artoff was a trade union treasurer but
also gambler
and a procurer. He worked with the French Resistance and was a loyal
member of
the French Socialist party. It was said however that he also spied for
the
Russians and had been rumored to sell information to anyone with the
right
price.
Although Sir James met with
Emil Artoff
under his alias of Evrard Tremblent , Emil
Artoff
recognized him and refused to divulge any information. He hated Jimmy
Bond and
would not aid one of his relatives. Sir James played against Emil at
Baccarat.
As Emil lost steadily he became quite agitated and chain-smoked. Sir
James
broke Emil. Emil was desperate to get the money back. Emil had
previously
played baccarat against a Nazi officer. When the officer lost a
substantial
sum, the S.S. man had him arrested for gambling. Emil had to pay back
all of
the S.S. Officer's losses as half of a fine. Emil had to pay the other
half of
the fine or suffer bodily harm.
Sir James told Emil Artoff he
would get
the money back when he told what he knew about Jimmy Bond and Dr. Noah.
Telling
Sir James would have been the easiest and wisest course. Emil
Artoff
thought he could get himself out of trouble and get some added
vengeance on the
Bond family as well. He hired some apache thugs to waylay Sir James and
bring
him to Artoff's office.
The apache's coshed Sir James
and carried
him to Artoff's. Although Artoff recovered the money immediately, Artoff still tied Sir James to a chair and
tortured
him with razor blades. He told Sir James that since he could not touch
Jimmy
Bond he would cut up Jimmy's relative using the razors that Emil's wife
had
used to kill herself after having been seduced by Jimmy Bond.
As Emil made cuts on Sir
James legs and
arms, he told Sir James how Jimmy Bond had stolen a fortune from him by
cheating at cards. Bond had then seduced Artoff's wife. Artoff's wife
had
killed herself in shame for succumbing to passion in a fit of pique
against her
husband. Artoff had seen Jimmy Bond in Spain.
He had turned him into the Fascists and visited Jimmy in prison and
gloated
over it. After Jimmy Bond had recovered from his tortures and had
become a
turncoat, he had sought out and found Emil Artoff. Artoff had been
running a
small illicit casino/bordello in Madrid.
The Fascists arrested Emil Artoff and destroyed his casino. After being
severely beaten, Artoff was sent to a labor camp. He escaped and made
his way
across the Pyrenees. He had made his way to Paris
and worked himself up to become the treasurer of trade union when the
Nazis
invaded France.
In early 1941 Jimmy Bond had
spotted Emil
Artoff at a Paris casino
and sat
down to talk to him. Jimmy knew that Emil was a procurer as well as a
gambler.
He told Emil that if he would provide a steady stream of clean girls,
Jimmy
would leave his operation alone. Emil spat in his face. Jimmy left. The
next
day Emil's prize businesses had been confiscated for Lebensborn. This
was a
foundation which placed racially pure women with racially pure men most
of whom
were in the S.S. Emil's business had been a large brothel inside an
abandoned
convent. The S.S. at Jimmy Bond's suggestion had confiscated the
business under
the pretense of the Lebensborn program but ran it as a state sponsored
brothel.
As Emil was about to start
making deep
marring cuts on Sir James' face when an insistent knocking came at his
door.
Emil went to answer it, making certain Sir James was kept from view.
Emil was
arrested by the S.S. officer he owed money. He paid the officer off but
was
still arrested. He protested and was knocked unconscious.
Shortly after Emil had been
taken away,
Vouspret stole inside Artoff's office and freed Sir James. She took him
to her
suite and treated his wounds. He told her what Artoff had told him.
Vouspret
passed the information onto to Margrete Bond.
Margrete Bond correlated the
information
that Artoff had told Sir James with the information that the late Agent
Mimi
had told Sir James about a spy school where girls were trained to be
seducers.
She convinced one of her Nazi officer contacts that if such a spy
school
existed, the techniques that her mother and she had learned might be
useful
knowledge for the girls of this school.
The Nazi officer agreed for
if nothing
else it would be an excuse to visit the brothel.
Margrete Bond met with Frau
Hoffner the
schools superintendent. Margrete learned that the school had been the
idea of
Dr. Noah. He had conceived of having girls taught to behave as if they
were
native English, Scottish, Americans or Russians. They would then
infiltrate
these nations and begin corrupting, seducing and extorting the
important
leaders. They would also commit acts of sabotage. Although he was
secluded and working on an important project, Dr. Noah often had girls
from the
school sent to him for private tutoring sessions. (23)
As Margrete toured the school
with Frau
Hoffner, a group of Nazi officers arrived with a prisoner. Margrete
recognized
the prisoner as Emil Artoff. The officers asked Frau Hoffner to allow
Emil
Artoff access to the school, he had something to retrieve. Having once
owned
this brothel. Emil Artoff knew ways to get into it without being seen
and often
used the school as a storage center. Escorted by the Nazi officers,
Emil went
to the library. Frau Hoffner and Margrete followed. Emil removed a
packet from
behind a shelf. Emil took a group of photographs out of the packet. He
had
bargained with the officers who had arrested him promising to give them
some
compromising photographs of some fellow officers and important Vichy
political figures. The photos showed the subjects in various
compromising
situations, including same sex trysts or other acts declared perverse
by
National Socialist law. Through swift talking, charm and by playing on
the
greed of the officers, Emil managed to alter merely turning over the
photos
into an impromptu auction. Emil sought not only his freedom but to
recoup his
gambling losses.
As the bidding rose, Emil
Artoff's eyes
lit with greed. He glanced at Margrete and said that once this auction
was
closed he had another item he could bargain with. Fearing that he would
compromise herself or some other member of the Resistance, Margrete
strode up
to Emil and snatched photos from his hands. She tossed them into the
fireplace.
When Emil and officers protested Margrete berated them for trying to
sell out
the principles of National Socialism for a few francs or marks. She
said that
Emil was a part Jew pimp who knew nothing but would say anything to
save his
skin. (24)
Emil countered by calling her
a double
agent. Although he sowed a seed of doubt, he made one fatal error. He
turned to
one of the officers and grabbed his arm. He whispered that he had
duplicates of
the photo with him in it. The officer hit Emil on the side of the head
with his
nightstick and kicked him once. When the other officers were going to
follow
suit, the officer held them back. He said he wanted Emil alive so he
could go
to a nice country vacation spot called Dachau.
There a Doctor named Rascher would cure Emil of his gambling problem. (25)
Having learned where Dr. Noah
was located
and that he occasionally sent for girls from the school, Margrete
wanted to
leave. She believed Sir James was in danger. One of the photos she had
glanced
at prior to burning them seemed to indicate that a person they trusted
might be
a double agent or a collaborator.
Sir James only immediate
danger was of
being drained to a husk by the voracious, man hungry Vouspret. While
she slept
he slipped away from her suite.
When Margrete returned she
contacted Sir
James and Coopère with what she had learned. Coopère
spread the world that
Vouspret might be a double agent. Vouspret caught wind that her
fortunes had
changed and took up with a Nazi officer to provide her with protection.
(26)
Coopère had Dr. Noah's
compound watched.
It was heavily guarded. When they received word
that a group
of girls from the school were being taken to Dr. Noah.
Coopère, Sir James
and Margrete and a few other Resistance members such as Foreign
Legionnaire
incognito and representing Free France and some very tough street
hoodlums
known as apaches joined them. (27) They
intercepted the truck and made the guards give them the correct code
words to
gain entrance. The compound was merely an underground concrete base
with some
living quarters, a kitchen and a laboratory.
Upon gaining entrance, they
sent a female
agent to distract Dr. Noah while they neutralized the guards and tried
to
determine what kind of work was going on. Even after studying the
notebooks,
Sir James and Margrete and Coopère were not certain what type of
work was being
done but felt that it was no good. An Apache began smashing test tubes
until
Coopère curtly told him to cease. They did not know what effect
that would
have. While the assault team sealed off the small compound, Dr.
Noah
discovered that the girl who had been sent to detain him did not know
the
secondary passwords. He realized the compound had been infiltrated by
the
French Resistance. He placed a capsule in her drink. The capsule
contained a
particular virulent and fast acting strain of the virus they had
created. The
wily female agent distracted him by taking off all of her clothes. She
drained
her glass in one gulp and began to kiss his chest. He drained his glass
in one
gulp. She pulled a gun on him from the pile of clothing and took him
prisoner.
At gunpoint they exited his
room and
joined the others in the laboratory. A tall, distinguished man looked
at Dr.
Noah askance. The man looked like a younger and much thinner version of
his
father. Sir James Bond!
Margrete looked at her father
and at Dr.
Noah. So Dr. Noah was Jimmy Bond.
Coopère pointed a
rifle at Jimmy Bond and
demanded to know what was going on in the laboratory.
Jimmy Bond explained. He was
Dr. Noe but
he had been sent to be the hands of Dr. No. Coopère raised his
gun at this
double talk and Jimmy hurried with his explanation.
Dr. No was a scientist who was the son of a
Germany
missionary and a Chinese woman. Jimmy was surprised to discover he knew
Dr. No
from America. Before he had called himself Dr. No Julius Von Herder had
run an
opium den for a Tong in New York City's Chinatown. During a brutal tong
war in
1929, Dr. No had his hands cut off when he refused to divulge the
location of a
money cache. He had been shot through the heart and left for dead. His
heart
however was on his right side and he recovered from the severe wounds.
He had
disappeared shortly thereafter. Between 1929 and 1939, Julius No had
attended
medical school. Since he despised the Chinese for having treating him
so
shabbily, he leaned towards his father's ancestry. He even had his
spine
stretched and wore contacts to look more Caucasian.
He
broached a official in the Third Reich with
an idea.
He wanted to recreate the viral formula created and lost by Von Bork
during
WWI, only this time instead of foods the formula would be tailored for
specific
peoples. The virus would make Asians, Africans and the like sick but
not
Germans. At the time, Julius had rejected his Chinese half and
considered
himself German. (28)
The official with whom Dr. No
met liked
the idea but wanted to take it a step further, instead of making the
inferior
races sick, it would kill them and leave the land cleared for the Aryan
lebensraum. Although even Dr. No balked at such mass murder he soon
discovered
that he did not have a choice in the matter the Nazi's would not allow
him to
resign. Dr. No and Jimmy soon began working on the virus. When Jimmy
Bond
became convinced of the righteousness of the Third Reich's cause, he
worked
with Dr. No by becoming the good Dr. hands.
They soon
discovered that despite Nazi ideology there really was not much
biological
difference between the various "races". The best solution that they
could devise was to have the virus target the amounts of melanin in the
body.
Unfortunately this was harder than it first seemed since even tanned
Aryans
would succumb to the virus. Dr. No's sponsor had also wished the viral
infection's physical manifestations to the body to be horrific so as to
drive
terror into the minds of the lesser races. Why Rosenberg wanted to do
this when
the virus would effectively wipe out their enemies out was unknown.
Despite their diligent
efforts Dr. No and
Jimmy Bond were unable to devise a version of the formula that was safe
for
Aryans. They were told to do the second best thing, create an antidote.
Dr. No
disappeared in early 1941 and eluded his Nazi captors. He had realized
that
once his usefulness was gone, the Nazi's would kill him without a
second
thought. He also had so little confidence in Jimmy's abilities that he
knew he
would never devise an antidote. Jimmy laughed at that. He was wrong.
Jimmy had
devised an antidote. He realized that the virus was too powerful, too
dangerous
to be given to the Nazi's so he stalled while he worked on refining the
virus
to tailor it to target for specific gender traits. He wanted only men
and ugly
women to be killed (29)
Jimmy Bond began calling
himself Dr. Noe,
which was near enough to Dr. No to fool the Nazis. It was also French
for Noah.
Jimmy would be the Noah of the New Age, when most of humanity would be
wiped
out and he would seize the reins of power.
Sir James and the others
realized that
Jimmy Bond was insane.
Coopère aimed his
rifle at Jimmy who
snickered. He said they would not shoot him, not unless they wanted the
girl to
die. He had slipped a live virus into her drink. She would die in agony
in a
couple of hours and infect all of the French. Jimmy claimed that she
had
already infected the persons in this facility.
The insidious virus that Dr.
Noah's
sponsor wanted rapidly infected the lungs, heart and blood causing a
high
fever. It became highly contagious airborne virus within a half an
hour,
although it needed human tissue to thrive or it died in moments. The
victim
experienced a great deal of pain as the body tissues swelled, organs,
tissue
and muscles became engorged with fluid and the skin broke out in large
thin
skinned pustules. The patient's eyes welled up blood and the patient
perspired
blood, a highly infectious blood as was the fluid leaking from the
pustules. Gas
built up in the victim's gastro-intestinal system causing severe cramps
and
bloating. The patient would experience great pain for days as his
tissues were
converted into gas and fluid. Once the patient died usually of heart
failure,
the virus continued to work on the tissues of the body aided by the
decomposition process of the body. Gas became produced at a great rate
and the
body would swell until it popped or was deflated. The exploded body
would send
infected tissue and fluids over a fair distance, like a plant sending
out
spores. (30)
The girl who had been with
Jimmy Bond
calmly informed him that he was the one who had drunk the virus. She
had
switched glasses.
Sir James asked if Jimmy were
still
contagious despite having taken a vaccine against the virus. Jimmy
began
sweating heavily. He told them that there was not a vaccine,
that was one of the things they were still trying to accomplish.
They
had derived an antidote, which if taken within the first few hours of
exposure
killed the virus. Jimmy hurried to the lab followed by the others.
Seeing the
broken glassware he squealed and shouted that they had destroyed the
antidote.
His eyes alighted on one vial and grabbed for it. Sir James shot him in
the
back.
Jimmy turned and told him that he was an idiot, like all the
Brits. That was
only enough for one dose. Without Dr. Noe to make more, only one could
live.
Sir James replied that he would not trust Dr. Noe to create a cure
for them
anyway. Better to let this whole facility perish
than imperil
the world.
Sir James calmly informed the rest of the assault team that they
were all
infected with the virus Dr. Noe had described. They had to destroy this
facility and most would perish doing so. One of the Apache members of
the
Resistance group panicked and bolted for the door. Coopère shot
him down.
It was decided that Coopère would be the one to take the
antidote. Only he
could manage to gather together an outside assault team from the
various
members of the French Resistance with enough munitions or incendiaries
to
destroy the facility before the Nazi or Vichy authorities became aware
that it
had been compromised.
Coopère was injected with the antidote. They waited to see
if it were
effective. The next three days were horrifying. Jimmy's Bond's corpse
did
indeed swell and burst. The rest of the people in the facility
experienced the
symptoms he had described. Coopère however did not. He left to
gather an
assault team to destroy the facility.
Of the six people who were left, one committed suicide, another
was shot by
Sir James while attempting to escape. One died of a heart attack while
in the
throes of a high fever. The remaining three stoically waited and
allowed the
disease to run its course. Sir James watched, numb
with fever
and sickness as the girl known as the Detainer succumbed and then as
his
daughter faded away.
Sir James knew nothing for a long time. Freezing from a deep
fever, he
barely noticed the sharp smell of petrol fumes as the liquid splashed
around
him. The bright light of the sudden flame stung and blinded his swollen
and
blood encrusted eyes. The warmth as the flames engulfed him however
felt very
nice.
The film Casino Royale used part of the story
above to tell
the story of the first BSS agent James Bond but chose to ignore most of
the
true dramatic elements and go in another way. Instead of presenting the
story
of the heroic sacrifice that Sir James and others made to literally
save thew
the world, the producers of the 1967 film took the James Bond cinematic
myth
and turned it into Sixties camp kitsch. The film had a number of
directors and
any linear story line became lost in a multitude of comic visions. We
have a
series of comic skits loosely connected to a narrative. Although the
film is
amusing in places it is more like the Monty Python version of the
Arthurian
mythos than a legitimate effort to present a James Bond film. At least
now the
truth behind the film can be told.
*For those films that differ
substantially from the novel upon which their titles were based I will
provide
a varient title which is more appropriate to the film's plotline or the
plotline of the actual case which inspired the film's storyline.
NOTES.
1. The story of James Moriarty's involvement
with
Emily Caber, his recruitment by the Capelleans and his guise as Captain
Nemo or
one of them is told in various sections of The
Malevolent
Moriartys, or, Who’s Going to Take Over the World When I’m Gone? by Win Eckert, The
Secret History
of Captain Nemo by Rick Lai and The Other Log of Phileas Fogg
by
Philip Jose Farmer.
2, Rasputin's
parentage is
discussed in the novel Rasputin's Revenge by John T. Lescroat.
The
powerful Russian monk had encounters with many other Wold Newtonian
Luminaries,
such as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and Nero Wolfe in Rasputin's
Revenge,
with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and Vlad Dracula in Séance
for a Vampire
by Fred Saberhagen. Several years after his supposed death, Rasputin
also
encountered the Shadow. See the Wold Newton Crossover Chronolgy entries
for Part III
July 1903,
October 1916 - January 1917, Wold Newton
Crossover
Chronology part IV March 1935
3. This episode
in the
secret war between the Capelleans and Eridaneans is disclosed in The
Other
Log of Phileas Fogg by Philip Jose Farmer. At the end of the tale,
Nemo is
informed that the last of the Capellean "Old Ones" had died and that
he was now head of the small organization. This report should be taken
with a
grain of salt, if the two alien organizations were large enough to have
infiltrated many national governments at various levels and had agents
scattered throughout the world, Britain,
America, France, India that we know for certain, it was not likely to
be so
small that one of its infrequent members would catapult to the head of
the
organization. Also since both sets of the humanoid aliens promised a
thousand
years of life, yet according to the history they had told Moriarty and
others
had only been there for little over two hundred years, why were so few
left?
Even if the actual aliens had all been killed off thorugh the secret
war, why
was a person of Moriarty's so recent induction to the ranks of the
society made
Head over the older agents of at least a century of service. Consider
this,
Moriarty continued to age until he got hold of
life
extension formula in his late middle age. Therefore it is unlikely that
he was
actually given the life extension formula touted by the
Capelleans.
Moriarty had been used from his earliest contact with the Capelleans.
Although
brilliant and talented his ambition and massive ego pegged him as
possible
liability for the secret Capellean organization. They thought that he
could be a loose cannon that could be
turned against the organization
that sponsored him. Moriarty was never a real member of the Capellean
Hierarchy
and he was never given the life extension treatment. He had been told
that the
organization was smaller than it was to keep him away from the real
Hierarchy.
His fiasco with Fogg was the last straw. The Capellean hierarchy cut
him loose
by telling him that all the Elders had died and he was chosen to lead
the
remnants of the organization. His ego never allowed him to see that
this was a
ruse.
4.Professor
James Moriarty's duel to the "death" with the pestering Holmes who
threatened to expose the operations of the Black Section by his dogged
determination to bring Moriarty to justice was detailed in The
Final Problem
by Arthur Conan Doyle. Both Moriarty and Holmes disappeared for a while
after
this fight, although Moriarty once again resumed his place in the
shadow court
of Espionage
5.
The source of the Moriarty-Dakkar feud can be found in Rick Lai's The
Secret History
of Captain Nemo. The tale of the odd assortment of characters
collected
by Campion Bond is The League
of
Extraordinary Gentlemen comics or graphic novel.
6.
Alice Fagin was an American branch of the Fagin family descended from
the
master of thieves portrayed in Charles Dickens Oliver Twist.
Jimmy Bond
physically resembled his mother rather than his father, being small,
thin and
having reddish hair.
7.
Part of Jimmy Bond's exploit made it into the 1954 American television
film Casino
Royale. This film also used elements from the Fleming novel of
James
Bond-007's meeting and defeat of Le Chiffre at the Casino. It also used
elements of James Bond-007's 1938 exposure of a Romanian card sharp
ring
operating in Monte
Carlo.
8.
As with his younger cousin Sir James Bond cut himself off from his
rather
contentious Highland clan of the Glencoe Bonds. He did not keep
in touch
with his relatives and so was quite unaware of the existence of two
younger
cousins also named James. He made a concerted effort to appear to be an
English
gentleman and discarded his Scottish ancestry.
9.
The 1967 film Casino Royale made much of Sir James
Bond's stammer
but chose to make the stammer related to an embarrassment about sexual
matters.
His old fashioned views on sexual matters made him a marked contrast
from his
younger replacement.
10.
One of the few statements about Sir James Bond that the 1967 film makes
is that
he won the Victoria Cross for his actions at Mafeking and he was the hero of the Ashanti Uprising.
The
leader of the troops in Mafeking
was as stated Colonel Baden-Powell. Lord
Robert Baden-Powell is perhaps now best known for having formed the
Boy
Scouts. Yet during his lifetime he was a celebrated military hero,
naturalist
and espionage agent. His adventures as a spy make for fascinating
reading and are
on line at this
location. How appropriate is it that the first James Bond who was
involved
in espionage was trained in the art by one of the premier spies of the
age. Here is an
account of Mafeking written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
11.
Although there were several Ashanti uprisings or Wars, the one in which
Sir
James Bond took part was the Ashanti Uprising 1900
The Ashanti briefly reasserted their
independence and besieged the British Governor in a fort in Kumasi,
after he
tried to take possession of the Golden Stool
the symbol of Ashanti power and
independence,
defended by his escort with machine guns.
A force
was sent out
to lift the siege but proved to be to small
after some
firefights 800 fought their into the fort. This proved to be to many
people for
their
supplies so the governor left a small
force to
hold the fort and led a break out that fought it's
way
to friendly territory. A larger force was sent out to relive the
fort and after severe fighting broke
through to Kumasi. At Aboasa they clashed with the Ashanti, who abandoning their skirmishing ways
rushed
headlong into
the British machine guns.
In April
1900, the Asante reacted to these attempts by launching an
armed
rebellion and by laying siege to the Kumasi fort, where the British governor and his
party had
sought refuge. The British eventually defeated the Asante, both capturing and exiling the rebellion's
leader,
Yaa Asantewaa, and fifteen of her closest advisers. The conclusion of
the last
Anglo-Asante war resulted in the formal annexation of the Asante empire as a
British
possession.
12.
Kimball O'Hara was first portrayed in the novel Kim (1901) by
Rudyard
Kipling. He continued to work for her Majesties and His Majesties
Secret
Service as shown in Imperial Agent and the Last Victory
by Timeri
N. Murari. He also appeared fighting Martians in SOLDIER OF THE
QUEEN
A short story edited by Barbara Hambly, from a manuscript by Rudyard
Kipling,
in the anthology War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Bantam, 1996,
Kevin J. Anderson,
ed. See Wold
Newton
Crossover Chronology entry August 1898
Wold
Newtonian researcher Jess Nevins also has an appearance by Kim in Jewel in the Crown.
Kim
also appears briefly in The
Lethal
Luthors. It is likely given Sir James friendship with Lord
Baden-Powell that he knew what Kim's profession actually was but was
too
discreet to mention it.
13.
Mata Hari was born Margaretha Zelle on August 7, 1876 in Leeuwarden, Holland.
In a family and society known for fair-skinned, blonde, blue-eyed folk,
the
pretty M’greet was noticeable for her thick black hair, black eyes, and
easily
tanned olive complexion. Neighbors thought she had either Jewish or
Javanese
blood.. She married Rudolph Macleod a career
soldier
several years her senior. He was a drunkard and a wife beater. He was
stationed
in the Java, where besides being a good housewife and mother,
Margaretha was
also fascinated by the Javanese culture. On one night of horror, her
children
were poisoned, probably by a dismissed native servant. Her daughter
recovered
but her son died. The death of her son tore the fragile marriage apart.
Margaretha sued for divorce and won the custody of her daughter along
with an
annual payment. Macleod gave her the daughter but refused to pay for
support.
Without funds, Margaretha was forced to return Non to Macleod. To
provide an income
for herself she went to Paris
and created the character of Mata Hari using Hindu and Javanese
mythology as a
base. As she aged and her dancing days waned she became a well known
Courtesan,
using her beauty to attract rich consorts. For a more detailed version
of Mata
Hari's life please visit Denise Noe's excellent All About
Mata Hari. From which this entry is based.
14.
So far as I know Rudolph Macleod does not have any relationship to
either
Duncan or Connor Macleod of the Highlander series. A direct descent is
ruled
out by the sad fact that Immortals are sterile once their Immortality
has been
activated. Both Connor and Duncan were very young when they were
quickened so
an unknown offspring is unlikely. However given the fact that both
traveled
throughout Europe it is possible that Rudolph Macleod might be
a
descendant of a child one of the two Immortals adopted.
15.
Wilhelm Canaris became an early supporter of Adolph Hitler. In 1932 he
became
head of the German Military Intelligence Service. In 1945, he was
executed when
it was discovered he had been working against Hitler since 1938 and had
often
leaked intelligence to the Allies.
16.
The 1967 film Casino Royale made use of Sir James
activities
during his retirement to make him seem like an eccentric lost in time.
This would of course would have some
element of truth if things
were as they were presented during the film. It is important to
remember that
the actual time frame was the early 1940's and not the late 1960's. In
the
1940's these activities would not have seen so out of place. Nor did
the film
bother to place the activities of Sir James or the presence of the wild
animals
such as the lions and tigers in the right context.
17.
Despite some intensive research I still have not found any information
on Angus
McTarry other than he was indeed a Scottish Laird, he did work as a
British
civil servant. He was a member of the Diogenes Club and a founding
Member of
Imperial British Exportation Inc. Sir Henry Merrivale's career on the
other
hand is well known and documented in twenty odd biographical
novelizatons by
Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) Merrivale was holder of one of the
oldest
baronetcies in England, physician, barrister, head of military
intelligence for
the war office in England. Speculation that he was one of the holders
of the
title of M is in Brad Mengel's article Keeping Secrets.
18.
Agent Mimi's identity also has not been discovered, although many leads
point
to her having been of either the Chauvelin or Charbonneau families. The
1967
film Casino Royale allowed the character of Mimi to live
despite
being shot. She admits that under the control of a Berlin organization called the International
Mothers' Help.
As will be seen, she was in fact under direct control of the S.S.
sponsored
organization Lebensborn, which aided German women who carried the
children of
S.S. members with a place to bear the child, help in child rearing and
fining
gainful employment. Lebensborn was also used as a front to create a
cadre of
female spies.
19.
To say that the British Bonds were not a very close family is an
understatement. James Bond practically dismissed his Highland relatives as a pack of tight fisted
drunkards in his interviews with
John Pearson. To James his only redeeming relative was his Aunt
Charmaine who
took him in after his parents were killed. Much of the animosity came
from
Andrew Bond's leaving the family holdings to marry a foreigner who they
considered a trollop. James Bond as written by Ian Fleming did not
mention much
of his home life, not that Fleming did not know
about it
but rather kept those details out of the books. His concerns were of
course
security concerns for the Bond family and also he wished to make Bond
to seem
more mysterious with a rather oblique past. It appears that the Bond
family had
a history of considering any of their family who would live or work
among the
British as black sheep of the family and regarded them with a mixture
of
contempt and pity.
The
protégé of
Maddox was James Bond 007, whose early career is related in John
Pearson's James
Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007. The 1967 film of course
alluded to
the three James Bonds currently working for the British Secret Service
as part
of a plot to confuse the enemy. While confusing it may have been, it
was merely
an odd coincidence. The film probably got the idea from the little kept
secret
that the Ian Fleming novels and the films had been utilized by the
British
Secret Service to convince the public at large and Britain's enemies
that 007
was in fact fictional.
What was also confusing was despite being 62 in 1942,
Sir James Bond looked and acted at least a decade younger. This
may have
been because as one of the characters in the film slipped out, Sir
James ate
Royal Jelly and practised yoga. How effective the yoga was, one cannot
know.
However the royal jelly may have been a contributing factor to his
slowness in
aging. Although it was not as effective as nor did it have the
rejuvenating
effect of the royal jelly derivative developed by Sherlock Holmes which
was
later given to the BSS by Mycroft Holmes. See the Original Wold Newton Crossover Chronology Part and the James Bond
Chronology
20.
The 1967 film changed the name to Evelyn Tremble, making him an English
expert
on Baccarat who was recruited to by the BSS and was given the confusing
code
name of James Bond. Tremble's task was to defeat the evil Le Chiffre at
cards.
This event was borrowed elements from the later Casino Royale case of
007 even
if the character of Tremble is not.
21.. The name of
Buena Muslos was borrowed by the 1967 and
altered into Miss Goodthighs. In the film she was an agent of Dr. Noah
who
seduced Evelyn Tremble into taking a knockout drug. The actual woman
was a
Spaniard who became Jimmy Bond's mistress and turned him towards
Fascism. Her activity
after Jimmy Bond left Spain remains unknown.
22.
The character of Coopère also makes it into the 1967 film
although in a
drastically different form. In the film version he was yet another one
of the
agents recruited to take the name and number of James Bond 007. One of
the producers jokes was that he was played
by an actor named
Cooper. The story was also given that he had been hired to fill in for
scenes
which Peter Sellers the actor playing Evelyn Tremble did not wish to
do.
Coopère is French for Cooperate and was a code name given to a
man able to be a
liaison to many different factions of the nascent French Resistance.
Although
his identity remains unknown, a likely candidate is Rene Mathis, the
friend of
James Bond 007 and a member of the French Deuxieme Bureau.
23.
Here we see that the idea of using the Lebensborn organization as a
cover for
training young women to become espionage agents was the idea of Jimmy
Bond or
Dr. Noe. The organization made its way into the film as the Berlin controlled International Mother's Helpers.
The film
used the concept of the spy school as a visual tribute to German
expressionist
film. It also made a jibe about the espionage game in general as being
both
futile and self serving. The school in the film trained American agents
to work
in Russia and Russians to work in America. The school also provided Dr. Noah with his
female
staff.
24.
The 1967 film also had an auction for compromising photos broken up by
Mata
Bond. The auction in the film was conducted by a preprentatatve for Le
Chiffre.
The auction here was conducted by Le Chiffre as will be explained in
the next
note.
25.
Emil Artoff was the grandson of Baccarat (Jeanne Charmet, Countess
Artoff) and
Rocambole. Emil Artoff was sent to the camp of Dachau,
which
was the first of the Nazi prison camps. It was originally for political
dissidents and other sorts of like criminals. It was a labor camp and
was
slated to be an extermination camp by the end of the war. Although many
of its
prisoners perished from starvation, overwork and brutality, its gas
chamber was
never used. There was however an example of Nazi evil in the form of
Dr.
Siegmund Rascher. He performed gruesome medical experiments involving
freezing
people in cold water or air, then trying to
warm them
up with hot water. He also subjected people to high altitude
simulations until
they died. Emil Artoff was subjected to several of the experiments of
Dr.
Rascher but he managed to live. The combination of the experiments or
the
psychological horrors of his experiences in this camp wiped away most
of his
memories. He still retained his skills but his name and his former life
were a
mystery, a cipher to him. He retained a fondness for games of chance
and high
mathematical skills. He continued to carry razors, although he did not
remember
why. He retained a bent for working for a trade union and a belief in
socialism. He also continued with the desire to be a procurer which lead to disastrous results. His previous
interactions with
the Bond family had left him with a deep hatred for them, so that when
he met
James Bond 007, he hated him on sight. He was rescued from Dachau by the Allied forces in 1945. Unable to
remember his
name he chose the name Le Chiffre.
26.
The identity of Vous pouvez me voir si prêt. <You can see me
when Ready> Or with the Flemingesque
nickname, Vousprêt <You
Ready?> is a rather delicate matter. There is no evidence of the
person in
question having any dealings, so far as I could ascertain, with the
French
Resistance. There are the historical facts however that during the Nazi
Occupation, she was known to make anti-Semitic and homophobic
statement. She
took as her lover a Nazi officer named. Hans Gunther von Dincklage, a
Nazi
officer whose favors included permission to reside in her beloved Ritz
Hotel.
The person in question is Gabrielle
"Coco" Chanel. In the 1967 version of the film, the character is
called Vesper Lynd, which is a borrowing from the Fleming novel Casino
Royale.
Vesper is an agent of the BSS who turns out to be a double agent and
comes to a
bad end. In the 1967 film version, Vesper runs an international
business and
she is a former agent who is called upon to seduce Evelyn Tremble and
convince
him to work for the BSS. She also turns out to be a double agent. The
name
Vesper in the original novel may have been influenced in part by
Fleming's
knowledge of this earlier adventure and a desire to tweak Coco's
nose a bit. Consider this it would be unlikely for Fleming to use the
real name
of a double agent, if only to prevent from being sued by relatives of
the
woman. In creating a pseudonym for his character he remembered the tale
of
Vouspret and used that name. His memory may have been jogged by the
fact that
in 1953 Coco Chanel was once again in the news, paving a publicity path
for her
comeback in 1954. She had been living in exile in Switzerland up to that time. The character of Vesper may
have
been a signal to Coco Chanel that not everyone had forgotten about
Vousprêt.
27.
Apparently a misunderstanding or a deliberate misuse of the term apache
was
translated into the film version rather literally. Instead of French
criminals
however the film producers had Native American Indians joining the
fracas at
the end of the film. Ha, Ha. I cannot account for the apparance of the
cowboys,
except perhaps that the producers felt that if they had Indians they
also had
to have cowboys.
28.
Dr. No was of course one of James Bond 007's most formidable enemies.
More
information about his ancestry can be found in the article The
Malevolent
Moriartys, or, Who’s Going to Take Over the World When I’m Gone? by Win Eckert. Dr. No omitted this episode when
he related
his history to 007. He escaped from the Nazis and bought an island
named Crab
Key in the Caribbean. He was not content to become rich in the
guano
business and became greedy. This lead to his
downfall.
The reference to the virus carried by Von Bork during WWI is a
reference to the
Adventure of the Peerless Peer and the Adventure of Three
Madmen,
both by Philip Jose Farmer. Same case, different
perspectives. See the article Jungle
Brothers for
a further explanation. The case had Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson,
Tarzan
and Mowgli hunting down Von Bork, one of Holmes greatest enemies. Von
Bork had
devised a virus that would eat certain foodstuffs such as rice or
bread. It
would only eat those items but could be tailored to each just about any
foodstuff. A younger Sir Henry Merrivale was also aware of this case.
29.
This virus was the main focus of Dr. Noah's plan in the 1967 film
version of
these events, although the film has Jimmy Bond becoming a
evil super villain because of sexual inadequacies and an inferior
complex
stemming from a combined hero worship and hatred for Sir James Bond.
Jimmy Bond
only knew of Sir James Bond slightly. His sexual inadequacies and
inferiority
complex were the root cause for his insanity and desire to purge the
planet of
most of humanity but they no doubt sprang from his upbringing from
Campion Bond
and Alice Fagin. The combination of seduction and torture by the Nazi
probably
did not have a beneficial effect on his mental state either. Although
Jimmy may
have had some sexual inadequecies, he may have had at least one
offspring from
his frequent trysts with the girl spies in training. One of these
was
stationed in America and shortly after arrival found herself
pregnant. Instead of carrying out the mission, she claimed to be the
wife of an
American serivce man named Bond. Her son John Bond made a fortune in
computer
technology. Enamoured of the Ian Fleming books, he named his son James
Bond. Jimmy Bond, became an all American athlete, if a bit dim
witted. He
became involved with the conspiracy investigator/publishers of The
Lone
Gunman and funded its publication (See the Lone Gunman television
series)
which was a spin off the the X-Files
UPDATE--Since this article was first
written,
an episode of the X-Files demonstrated a very odd parallel with the
scenario in
this article. In the episode entitled "Jump the Shark" Doggett and
Scully find themselves working with ex-Area 51 employee Morris Fletcher
to
track down Yves Harlow. To this end, the agents seek the help of the
Lone
Gunmen. Yves is attempting to neutralize two bio-terrorists who are
carrying a
virulent virus inside their bodies encased on a
artificial gland composed of shark cartilage. The cartilage decays at a
measured rate so the terrorist can easily place himself in a densely
populated
area when it hits his system.
The X-Files agents
and the
Lone Gunmen track the bio-terrorist to a hotel in Washington D.C and chased him to the hotel basement. It
is
nearly too late however and the virus become active in the
carrier.
Rather than let the population of D.C. become
infected, the Lone Gun pulled a fire alarm sealing themselves and the
bio-terrorist behind air tight firedoors. Jimmy Bond watches in horror
as his
friends are infected with this incurable disease. If he had known about
the
plans of his Grandfather and the sacrifice of his great Uncle, this
scene may
have been all the more horrifying as history replayed itself.
30.
The 1967 film has Jimmy Bond swallowing a time release capsule which
caused him
to turn into a living nuclear bomb and eventually explode killing
everyone
around him. The effects of this virus were the inspiration for this bit
in the
film. The reality of the virus is more horrific than the film version.
The
effects of that the virus would have had on the population of the world
had it
gotten released can be seen in the novel '48 by James Herbert.
This is
an alternate universe tale in which as a scorched earth policy the
Nazi's
released a virus, which seems to have been derived from the one created
by Dr.
Noe. Only ten percent of the population, those with a rare blood type
survived.
This insidious virus showed up in 2000 in a different form, attached to
an
influenza virus. Its major effects were blunted but the virulence of
its
infection was kept. The new virus was called the Chimera virus and only
through
the diligent efforts of IMF agents Ethan Hunt and Luther Stickell was a
worldwide calamity avoided as seen in Mission Impossible II
© 2002
Dennis Power
Created 4-19-02
Updated 5-22-02
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