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After spending several days searching for dead with lungs flooded, they found the body of a Welsh alcoholic who had just killed himself by ingesting rat poison and suffering from pneumonia. Pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury determined that his picture could match someone who has drowned in the sea. Without notifying the family, they took him out of the St. Pancras hospital in London and sought him a new identity: Captain William Martin , born in Wales in 1907, with a girlfriend named Pam, with photos and love letters prepared for the occasion, a Recent entrance to the theater, the keys to his supposed home, tobacco, matches and a British uniform. In addition, a briefcase was chained to his wrist where they put high-secret documents and searched for a place in the Mediterranean to throw it away.

We are in 1943, with the allies defeating the Afrika Korps de Rommel in the desert and waiting to disembark in Sicily to start gaining ground to the Third Reich in Europe. But they need a plan that facilitates that landing, a hoax that diverts German forces to other fronts. A fan of reading spy stories intended by the British in Lisbon has a somewhat crazy idea, but not without brilliance. His name is Ian Lancaster Fleming, code 17F as an intelligence agent of MI6 , and he proposes to throw a corpse into the sea with the Navy uniform and a briefcase full of allegedly original documents of a future invasion not of Italy, but of Greece. This is how the Minced Meat operation was born.

The place chosen to leave at the sea the body of the alcoholic Welsh, transvestite of British officer, is the coast of Huelva. Great beaches and small fishing villages where everyone knows each other and it is not easy for something like this to go unnoticed. Up there they take it on ice in a submarine and leave it floating in the water waiting for the sea to take it to the coast. That way happens. As they expected in London, Franco's police photograph the documents and give copies to their German allies, although it allows the body to bury the British. Berlin gives history credibility because it knows that airplanes that fly between North Africa and the United Kingdom cross that area. The idea of ​​a plane crash in the Strait of Gibraltar is not, for the German secret service, anything far-fetched. As a result of this operation devised by Fleming and carried out by the corvette captain Ewen Montagu, the Germans bit the hook divided their forces between Greece and Italy , which favored the Allied landing in Sicily. Winston Churchill called his friend Roosevelt to inform him of the success of the operation: "They have swallowed all the minced meat."

After the war, he bought a farm in Jamaica that he named Goldeneye and began writing his first James Bond

The Welsh alcoholic was buried in Huelva as William Martin, a man who never existed. As a curiosity, it was a mystery to know who leaves fresh flowers every so often on the tombstone . It was Isabel Naylor, daughter of an English worker from the Rio Tinto Company Limited, who followed the tradition her father started when she was 14 years old.

Fleming was never a land spy or a liquidator , but he fully fulfilled his role as an intelligence agent in Spain: sabotage any Francoist attempt of direct alliance with the Nazis, or what is the same, the Goldeneye operation. From his base in Lisbon or Gibraltar, the bachelor Fleming did not limit himself to informing his superiors of his progress, but tried to seduce and be seduced by women, drink all the martinis with vodka he could (mixed, not agitated) and place to Roulette in the Estoril casino. Then they put him in charge of his own command, the 30 assault unit, which mixed brains with muscles. It was known as the "red Indians of Fleming."

After the war, he did the most important thing in his life, bought a farm in Jamaica, baptized it as Goldeneye and created the most famous spy of all time: James Bond. There ended Casino Royale , the first of the deliveries, which was a total sales success. To arm 007, Ian Fleming made a casual choice: the Walther PPK pistol, the same one Adolf Hitler committed suicide with.

His mind never stopped making intelligence plans, almost as a distraction. John F. Kennedy recognized him on one occasion that he was a fan of Bond novels. In return, the writer offered him a plan to overthrow Castro: throw leaflets on Cuba ensuring the "sexual impotence" of the Cuban leader.

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