Comments by "" (@davidlauder-qi5zv) on "How Real Is James Bond: Former Spy Life Story | DEEP" video.

  1.  @seymourpro6097  Sorry but you are wrong. Fleming was a Lieutenant Commander, a mid-ranking officer, during WW2. He was the personal assistant the Director of Naval Intelligence, Rear Admiral Sir John Godfrey. You seem to have jumped to the conclusion that this meant he was the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. He wasn't. Deputy Directors of NI generally held the naval rank of Captain. In the military, being a personal assistant to a senior officer does not make you his Deputy.
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  2.  @RealMalta-fx4sx  How unfunny.
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  3.  @seymourpro6097  What does the DD stand for - assuming that NI stands for Naval Intelligence?
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  4. MI5 and MI6 are old pre-WW2 designations. Nowadays the correct names for them are officially "The Security Service" for MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) for MI6. The Security Service works within the UK, seeking to subvert the activities of unfriendly foreign intelligence services working undercover in Britain. The SIS is the foreign intelligence service of the UK, gathering intelligence on potentially hostile nations and protecting British interests abroad. So essentially you are correct.
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  5. What about the evils committed by the intelligence services of other countries, such as the KGB,and its successor, the FSB, or the Intelligence Service of the former East Germany, or the French or Spanish or Italian intelligence services? The truth is you don't know what these services have done. So why do you only point a finger of blame at the British and American intelligence services?
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  6. No, they didn't "lose" him. He travelled to Russia without his boss's knowledge or permission to carry out what he saw as a piece of unfinished business. Unfortunately he was arrested by the precursor of the KGB. On Stalin's orders he was shot.
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  7. I think you mean "know".
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  8.  @lee-j5d  James Bond is a fictional character. He doesn't exist.
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  9. No, his Bond stories were inspired not by the training of the American Office of Strategic Services, but by the activities of the British wartime subversive warfare organisation called the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Ian Fleming was an officer in British Naval Intelligence.
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