In Secret Service

The fictional full-length depictions of Fleming and most of the work which the character of Fleming played a minor role can be divided into two periods fiction inspired by his service during WWII (Mitch Silver s In Secret Service) and the Fleming of the post war era (Quinn Fawcett s... 

Mitch Silver s work is a completely different work than the three Yarbro/Fawcett works. As stated before it is acmally two smaller works in one and the one work, Provenance, dominates the other. Provenance is reported to be written by Fleming himself (a long lost novel as it was) and, although not a Bond thriller, is a thriller none the less. It has the sensibilities of Fleming, his sense of humor, and outlook. Silver put a lot of thought and research into this half of In Secret Service and most readers will appreciate it. The other half of In Secret Service is the weak sister of the novel and is a tale of how Provenance came to be found. Provenance could stand on its own as a short novel, but not so for the other half... 

Silver, Mitch. In Secret Service. New York Touchstone Publishing, 2007. 

A large man wearing a Secret Service-style radio earpiece and dressed in a black suit with a hundred-dollar haircut is standing dead center in front of the entrance with his finger pointing at you. The man is at least six feet five, 250 pounds, with a neck twice the thickness of yours, and a nose that has been broken more times than you care to imagine. He seems one part football player and one part weight lifter. No one enters the White House, he says. 

Get some rope, you scream to the Secret Service agents. We ve got to anchor him in our world. Right now an Omegamorph is trying to pull him into the fourth dimension. ... 

Poland in those days was not a free Poland. It was part of Russia. Since 1831 the czanst government from St. Petersburg persecuted its refractory subjects who had unsuccessfully revolted in the hope of gaining complete independence Tyrannical Russia imposed many restrictions. The Polish language was forbidden m the newspapers, churches and schools The old University of Warsaw, whose professors were compelled to teach m the Russian language, was only a ghost of what it had once been And the Russian secret service was omnipresent. 

The biased attitude of the judges was also clearly apparent in the courtroom. For example, the WN - the Organization of Persons Persecuted by the Nazi Regime, a group known at that time to be financed from East Germany and directed by the Stasi, the East German State Secret Service -... 

For example, the U.S. Secret Service uses an exhaustive scenario-based approach to protect the President of the United States. Likewise, the nuclear industry uses a rigorous scenario-based approach. In the former case, the symbolic value of a U.S. President makes him or her a very attractive target. In the latter, the political... 

Like every section of the Soviet secret services, the activities of the RGB Technical Operations Directorate are shrouded in obsessive secrecy. What little is known about the gases and poisons produced by the RGB scientists there comes mainly from the corpses of their victims. A handful of cases will serve to illustrate the range of poisons and chemicals available to RGB agents. 

But the Western intelligence agencies have not been content to rely upon the information produced at a small number of autopsies or from hospital records or the evidence of defectors. Such cases, they believed, represented only the tiniest proportion of the work on gases and poisons carried out by the KGB s Technical Operations Directorate. The same arguments which had been used to justify the development of chemical and biological weapons by the armies of the west were also used to justify research in the laboratories of the secret services. 

Against this background it is therefore not surprising that the British Secret Service should have turned to Fildes for help when, in October 1941, they began to plan Operation Anthropoid. Its object the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. 

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