OpJB

 

I'm reading a fascinating (if hard-to-believe) non-fiction book called "OpJB" which stands for "Operation James Bond", published in 1996 by author Christopher Creighton (real name John Ainsworth-Davis).

 

According to the author, he and Ian Fleming were part of a small team of British Secret Service agents who, under the instructions of Major Desmond Morton (aka "M"), Winston Churchill, King George VI and President Roosevelt, secretly smuggled Martin Bormann out of Berlin on the final day of the war and hid him in Britian, where he divulged the whereabouts of 95% if the immense fortune appropriated by the Nazis and hidden away in numbered Swiss bank accounts. In return, Bormann was then given a new identity and avoided prosecution for the rest of his life, being moved to Argentina in 1956 and then moving to Paraguay, where he died. The official history says that Bormann disappeared. He was tried in absentia at Nuremberg and was never (officially) seen again, although rumours have occasionally surfaced that he was living in South America.

 

The author also claims to have been extremely close to family friends Mountbatten and Ribbentrop, the latter of which ensured his successful career as a double-agent, giving him access to Hitler et al.

 

The book contains photocopies of letters to the author apparently from Churchill and Fleming, acknowledging the basic facts of the story but, in Churchill's case, urging him not to divulge the details of the story until all of the participants were dead. The author claims that the official records relating to the affair were, of course, destroyed by the authorities.

 

There are scant details about the book or the author and his claims online. All I could find were a few mentions in Google Groups from 1996, citing how the book was rubbished by the press when it came out. As you'd expect, as the press are (as we all know) the puppets of the powers-that-be.

 

Whether it's true or not, it's a fascinating read - part spy thriller, part alt-history.

 

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Comments

[Rob Irwin]

Ian Fleming was DEFINITELY up to some interesting stuff during WWII - that's well-established among Bond fans. Whether it was this, or not, is another matter. Sounds really interesting, though!

[Seamus Mirodan]

Hi there,

I am a British journalist based in Buenos Aires and am currently trying to get hold of the author of Operation James Bond. I hoped you might have some idea how to get hold of Ainsworth-Davis or his publisher.

All the best,

Seamus

[Peter]

Hey, I have this book, and read it. It didn't have the ring of truth. I think it is crap.It is too fantastic, completely implausable.The real world doesn't work like this. Sorry about that.Cheers.

[Cameron Reilly]

Hey Peter, yeah I agree with you, it's pretty fantastical. And I heard recently that Bormann's body recovered in Berlin was identified using DNA testing not long after the book came out. But then again, that's what you'd EXPECT the authorities to say! ;-)

[Peng]

My father was close friends with Sir Alexander Patterson of the Home Office during the war and I helped my father in some small way. The way things are done in OpJB are laughable. I gave up when the plot gets to the place where he is allowed to enter the War Room with a loaded revolver - HE MUST BE KIDDING.

[Pengulu]

I must add these comments to my previous ones. Why did our hero not take the Holy Head ferry to Belfast and then walk across the border to Southern Ireland to met his nasty friends? Why do a cumbersome MTB trip and swim up a river? Meeting in a wood? - I think not. Better, safer,and less conspicious paces are readily available. And our Patricia discovers a "vital" secret - so instead of keeping her at home to protect the secret "M" is "forced" to send into the field. Insane, totally insane. Then our hero sees gold, jewels, and stuff laying around in the secret Swiss bank vault - like Alladin's cave. He must be joking. Anyone who has been in such a place knows they do not spew valuables all over the place. I may add to these flaws if I can ever stop laughing.

[Rob Deakin]

Having just read OPJB firstly i would like to congratulate CC (CR) on a fasinating and thoroughly well written and interesting book,having served in the armed forces (RN)i find the possibilities of the books contents quite acceptable having seen and heard things that the public would never get to hear about, the posibility of MB being taken from Germany in those times of chaos plausible and maybe people should look at things with a more open mind rather than accepting what is told to them by a controlling body, i for one am prepared to believe that it was possible to extact a person of MB standing by the ways and means stated. Once again congratulations to CC

[Skoda]

There was also a parallel operation alongside OPJB and it was called Operation Winnie the Pooh. It's mission was to extract AH and EB. For a facinating read get the book titled Hitler was a British Agent by Greg Hallett and the Spymaster. It connects more dots that you might be able to accept.

[ray]

Apart from the childlike content/conveying of his actions or his delusions,his absurd ideas on Bormann, does no one notice the claims of this then 20yr old to a/
have attacked a u boat base in donegal. b/personally met hitler, but best of all c/TO HAVE IN PERSON "ON ORDERS"BETRAYED TO ROMMEL THE TRAGIC DIEPPE OPERATION!And of course he lived and sailed happyly for many years in the south of england and told us as much having admitted to "dieppe".major publishing scam and as one guy said his alternative to the dublin ferry was just TOO MUCH!

[Bob]

I thought it was a great read. Captured my imagination of what may have happened. Think about his motivation for this book. Why wouldn't he tell the truth? He's old, it's not like he's going to score with the babes because it makes him sound like a stud. What if it is true or even parts of it are true? It's fun to think it might be. And if it is - what a great story and the history books are full of it, not the author.