Larry Loftis's Blog, page 5
May 20, 2015
Ian Fleming and the CIA
Seventy-four years ago today, May 20, 1941, British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming checked into the Palacio Hotel in Estoril, a sea-side resort just west of Lisbon. Fleming was on a stopover on his way to Washington with his boss, Admiral John Godfrey, to assist President Franklin D. Roosevelt in creating an intelligence agency. Godfrey, who was the Royal Navy's Intelligence Director, wanted FDR to organize a foreign intelligence branch under one department, and one man, General
April 30, 2015
71 years ago today ....
Seventy-one years ago today, April 30, 1944, German Abwehr agent Johann Jebsen (who was collaborating with Britain's MI6) was kidnapped in Lisbon, drugged, stuffed in a trunk, cashiered to Biarritz, France and flown to Berlin, never to be seen again. What few know is that he held the secrets about Britain's most valuable double agents, who held the secrets about the Allied D-Day invasion deception. To his credit, Jebsen never talked, even after torture in the infamous Gestapo prison in Berlin.
