James Albert Bond arrived in Warsaw on February 18, 1964 and officially held an archivist post at the British embassy, documents from the communist counterintelligence service indicate.
According to communist services, Bond, born in 1928, had similarities with his fictional namesake, known, above all, for his penchant for martinis and women.
Polish officials report that James Bond was “interested in women” but was “very cautious” and did not contact Polish citizens, according to documents posted on Facebook this week.
According to IPN, he was “a low-ranking agent with a very popular name”, since communist agents also knew the heroes of fiction.
The archives also indicate that James Bond tried to visit “military installations” in Bialystok and Olsztyn, near the border of the then Soviet Union, in October and November 1964.
Apparently, without much success, the real James Bond left Poland on January 21, 1965.
The writer Ian Fleming, author of the series and himself a former British agent, has always said that his protagonist’s name was inspired by the American ornithologist James Bond, of whom he had a book on the birds of the Caribbean.
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