A British secret agent working in Poland during the Cold War was on Her Majesty's secret service in the country in the 1960s, after the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) posted about him on social media.
Investigators at the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) stumbled across documents showing that the man, whose full name was James Albert Bond.?
He arrived in Warsaw on February 18, 1964, using the cover of secretary-archivist of the British Embassy's military attache.
"We know he was in Poland, in 1964 and 1965," Marzena Kruk, director of the IPN's archive, told Reuters.?
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"He travelled a bit around Poland ... he liked women, the same as his literary namesake, but there is not even a word about Martini," she said, referring to the fictional character's favourite tipple.
"However, there is information that he liked Polish beer."Bond was under strict surveillance and visited the Bialystok and Olsztyn regions of northeastern Poland ,to try and "penetrate military facilities" in the Soviet satellite state, according to the files.?
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However, he was found not to have made contacts with Polish citizens, which would have had serious consequences for any Poles suspected of working with agents from the other side of the Iron Curtain.
The British agent 007 created by author Ian Fleming hit the silver screen in 1962, when actor Sean Connery played the character in the film Dr. No, leading some to suspect British spies may have been playing a joke on their Polish counterparts with their choice of pseudonym.?
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