WORLD WAR II - NAVAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT AYLEN (IAN C., Commander R.N.) Confidential. Walterwerke, Kiel. History of the occupation of the Allies from 5 May to 25 November 1945 and the General Activities, c.50 pages, xero-graphed text extensively illustrated with reproduction plans and diagrams (some folding), and numerous photographic plates, paper boards over green cloth, title typed to upper cover, light wear, foolscap 4to (330 x 210mm.), Department of Scientific Research and Experiment, Admiralty, 12 December, 1945 Footnotes: BEFORE BOND THERE WAS KIEL: THE CLASSIFIED MISSION THAT INSPIRED IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND. A scarce 'Confidential' report of work conducted in a key 'laboratory' of the Nazi regime's secret weapons programme. We only located another copy in the naval papers held at the National Archives, Kew [ADM 283/2]. Ian Fleming's 30 Assault Unit ('The Red Indians') was the Royal Marines intelligence raiding force conceived for the Naval Intelligence Division in 1942. The unit's mission was not conventional combat but the seizure of enemy documents, cipher materials, and technical equipment before they could be destroyed or fall into less specialised hands. At Kiel in May 1945, 30 AU achieved one of its most significant coups of the war's closing days, moving rapidly into the port and naval yards ahead of broader Allied occupation forces. There they secured vital materiel relating to German U-boat technology as well as personnel and papers from naval research facilities. The haul fed directly into post-war Allied technical intelligence assessments, and the speed of 30 AU's action at Kiel exemplified precisely the kind of aggressive, targeted intelligence-gathering that Fleming had envisioned when he first proposed the unit three years earlier. Fleming later incorporated the activities of T-Force and 30 AU in his writing; it is believed that the wartime exploits of Commander Dunstan-Curtis, DCS, CBE, led Fleming to use him as one of the inspirations for the character of Commander James Bond. Included in the lot is a copy of Sean Logden's T-Force (2009), that tells the story of the soldiers sent in Germany to seize and secure the Nazi military technology. Provenance: Lt. Peter Douglas Scott-Maxwell, ownership inscription dated 'Kiel, 12/45' on the upper cover. Scott-Maxwell, DSC and Bar, RN., was one of the officers who took the surrender of German U-boats at Kiel; Jon Gilbert, Ian Fleming bibliographer. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing