Author: Li Mingyue
Past generations of Bond actors
When it comes to spy agents, it can't help but remind people of the mercurial James Bond in the "007" series of movies that have been popular all over the world. In the film, James Bond, an agent who serves in the Mi6 of the British intelligence agency, performs missions around the world, cold and dashing, extraordinary and with a variety of black technology and alert and brave agent intuition, often in desperate situations to overcome dangers, turn the tide, and always encounter a romantic love with "Bond Girl", this kind of artistic character structure, so that the role of James Bond is still synonymous with "gentleman agent". However, according to Reuters, Poland's National Memorial Research Institute released a message confirming that during the Cold War in the 1960s, the British intelligence service really had an agent named James Bond!
Profile of Agent James Bond
The document, from the Polish Counterintelligence Service at the time, shows that the agent, named Bond, arrived in Warsaw, Poland, on February 18, 1964, and of course he was not as high-profile as Bond in the film, and had an official identity as an archivist at the British Embassy in Poland. But even with this high-sounding identity, he attracted the attention of Polish counter-espionage agents, and Malzena Kruk, director of the archives at the Polish National Memorial Institute, revealed that he had been "traveling" in Poland for a short period of time and was under intense surveillance. Of course, the goal of this "Bond" was not to deal with Poland, but the former Soviet Union, which was one of the two poles of the world at that time.
Agent Bond's files and documents
In fact, as a traditional European power, the United Kingdom has always had a strong intelligence network throughout Europe, and the former Soviet Union is the focus of the SPY infiltration work of the British MI6. Even in the early years, british intelligence agencies sent a "secret agent Bond" into the Soviet Union, this "agent Bond" was Sidney Riley, who had served in the British MI6 and was known as "Britain's number one spy" and had planned to assassinate Lenin. This daring spy, who was rampant in Asia and Europe, coincidentally, was also a russian-Polish citizen, his father was a Viennese Jew, and his mother was a Russian. Although he was eventually trapped and killed by the "GRU" of the former Soviet Union, this person wandered between Britain, Japan and Russia, and did more than Bond in the movie who went deep into Longtan. It follows from this that the British "Bond" did indeed "love deeply" certain aspects of the former Soviet Union.
Playing Sidney Reilly, who is more exciting than Bond
Of course, the "Bond" announced by Poland this time is not only interested in the intelligence of the Slavs, but also has a "deep love" for the Slavic beauties. The archive's director, Crook, said the Bond also "liked women" but acted "very cautiously" and did not engage with any Polish citizens. And coincidentally, bond in the film is very fond of martini cocktails, and this bond also likes some of the things in the glass, but not cocktails, more should be Polish beer.
Vodka martini was Bond's favorite
The Bond, who was stationed in Poland, spent the year from 1964 to 1965, ostensibly playing around in Poland, but in fact had other plans. From October to November 1964, he tried to travel to two military installations in northern Poland near the Soviet Union, but unfortunately he did not succeed. It should be known that in those years, Poland deployed the northern cluster of the former Soviet Union, of which the cluster headquarters was located in Legnica, Poland, and the initial northern cluster had a large number of mobile troops, more than two hundred nuclear weapons stockpiles, and when the western cluster of the former Soviet Union launched an attack on Europe, it undertook the strategic task of preparing surprise attacks and flanking attacks, and played the role of a needle in several turbulent Polish political situations. Such an important intelligence treasure was of interest to this Bond who had gone to Poland.
Armored troops performing assault missions in the Northern Cluster Exercise
Like many spies sent through consular channels in those days, the Bond went to military-equipped areas with two military attachés in October and November 1964 and withdrew from Poland on 21 January 1965 without obtaining valuable information. The dossier said that although james Bond was very talkative in reality, he failed to establish contact with any poles. Of course, after all, Kuklinski, director of the Strategic Planning Bureau and the director of the Operations Bureau of the Polish General Staff, was a spy, directly providing the United States with more than 200 advanced weapons parameters of the Warsaw Pact, and even more than 58,000 pages of information including the Warsaw Pact offensive plan, and in November 1985, he evaded all the Warsaw Pact counter-espionage agencies and successfully absconded to the United States. If you really want to judge Bond, I am afraid that in addition to not being called Bond, he can be more worthy of the name than this archivist Bond.