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I am a James Bond fan. In the novel "Casino Royal" James Bond gets his 00-status after two assassinations. The first target is a Japanese code expert in New York. The second is a Norwegian double agent in Stockholm. Casino Royale is of course fiction, but I ask for two reasons: The author Ian Fleming was the personal Assistant to the Commander of British Navy Inteligence Division in WWII and was better informed than most about espionage and covert operations at that time. The second reason is that only one or two agents were murdered in Stockholm during the war, Claes Bertil Warholm and Kai Holst (murder of suicide?). Warholm was Swedish, but operated as a double agent in Norway and was killed by two Norwegian Special Operation Executive agents. Kai Holst was a Norwegian resistance leader who worked in the espionage community in the Swedish capital. He was found shot with his gun next to him right after the war. This is the sort of thing Fleming was likely to know about and it does remind me about what he wrote in the novel.
Was there a murder in New York around that time that could be the inspiration behind e the first assassination done by James Bond in the novel Casino Royale?
I am a James Bond fan. In the novel "Casino Royal" James Bond gets his 00-status after two assassinations. The first target is a Japanese code expert in New York. The second is a Norwegian double agent in Stockholm. Casino Royale is of course fiction, but I ask for two reasons: The author Ian Fleming was the personal Assistant to the Commander of British Navy Inteligence Division in WWII and was better informed than most about espionage and covert operations at that time. The second reason is that only one or two agents were murdered in Stockholm during the war, Claes Bertil Warholm and Kai Holst (murder of suicide?). Warholm was Swedish, but operated as a double agent in Norway and was killed by two Norwegian Special Operation Executive agents. Kai Holst was a Norwegian resistance leader who worked in the espionage community in the Swedish capital. He was found shot with his gun next to him right after the war. This is the sort of thing Fleming was likely to know about and it does remind me about what he wrote in the novel.
Was there a murder in New York around that time that could be the inspiration behind e the first assassination done by James Bond in the novel Casino Royale?