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007’s File Was Actually Hidden in Poland

007’s File Was Actually Hidden in Poland

BY Hill 12 Feb,2021 007 Poland File

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In the 1960s, Great Britain sent a spy named James Bond to Poland to monitor the activities of the Polish Communist Party, but recalled him after only a year. This may or may not have been due to the fact that his activities were less productive there.

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Originally from Devon, England, James Albert Bond arrived in Warsaw in 1964 with his wife and six-year-old son, as secretary to the military attaché of British Embassy and archivist. During that time, he made several trips to the northeastern part of Poland, where he visited local intelligence stations with members of SIS (MI6), supposedly to gather information on local military installations. As a diplomat from the British Empire, Bond was closely monitored from the beginning by the Polish “Second Bureau” - the counterintelligence agency of the Ministry of the Interior - and his characters, especially his talkativeness, cautiousness, and preference for women, were well documented. Polish intelligence also recorded that in the past 10 months, the man sent his family home, and then left a few weeks later, but never to return.

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Now it seems that the James Bond’s legend was nothing more than a boring archivist's job as a junior embassy staff. But he was also a family-oriented man who missed his wife and son after the Iron Curtain. The second speculation of the story, however, may be that Bond was indeed a senior intelligence officer who personally traveled to the Polish countryside to gather military intelligence.

This makes sense. It is fair to say that Western intelligence agencies have actually been operating in Poland for more than a decade because of the increasingly imminent threat previously from the Soviet Union ground armed forces to all of the Western Europe. In the beginning, MI6 spies did make frequent personal trips to the suburbs and towns of Warsaw to take pictures, draw maps, and collect every hint of military activity. They were also interested in the Polish railroad system: a 1955 Joint Intelligence Committee memo shows that at that time, the British believed that it would take at least 55 nuclear bombs hitting key parts of the Polish railroad system simultaneously to break down the Soviet Army's maneuverability.


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