London
(ANI):
A
new
history
of
the
Secret
Intelligence
Service
has
revealed
that
one
of
James
Bond"s
most
famous
scenes
was
inspired
by
the
wartime
exploits
of
an
MI6
spy.
The
moment
when
the
fictional
spy
emerges
from
the
water
in
a
wetsuit
and
plants
explosives
before
unzipping
the
suit
to
reveal
a
spotless
dinner
suit
really
took
place
during
the
Second
World
War.
The
scene
where
Bond,
played
by
Sean
Connery,
emerges
in
his
wetsuit
in
the
1964
movie
Goldfinger
was
inspired
by
the
real
life
exploits
of
Dutch
agent
Pieter
Tazelaar,
according
to
'MI6" by
Keith
Jeffery,
the
first
official
history
of
SIS.
Tazelaar
was
sent
in
by
sea
in
1940
to
make
contact
with
agents
in
Holland.
The
book
recounts
that
he
'put
ashore
at
4.35am
on
23
November
at
Scheveningen
near
the
seafront
casino
in
full
evening
dress
and
smelling
of
alcohol,
wearing
a
specially
designed
rubber
oversuit
to
keep
him
dry
while
landing,
reports
the
Daily
Mail.
'Rather
than
leaving
him
somewhere
on
the
dunes,
the
aim
was
for
him
to
be
able
to
mingle
with
the
crowd
on
the
front.
'Having
landed
on
the
beach
his
colleague
Erik
Hazelhof
sprinkled
a
few
drops
of
Hennessy
XO
brandy
on
him,
to
strengthen
his
party-goer"s
image".
Professor
Keith
Jeffery,
of
Queen"s
University,
Belfast,
was
given
unrestricted
access
to
the
surviving
historic
files
of
the
Secret
Intelligence
Service.
But
his
work
only
covers
the
period
up
to
1949
and
he
was
banned
from
revealing
the
identities
of
spies
that
are
not
already
in
the
public
domain.
The
book
also
confirms
that
one
of
the
templates
for
James
Bond
was
another
spy
with
the
unpromising
name
of
Wilfred
'Biffy"
Dunderdale.
'When
head
of
the
SIS
Paris
station
in
the
1930s,
he
had
a
penchant
for
pretty
women
and
fast
cars
and
has
been
proposed
as
one
of
the
possible
models
for
Bond,"
the
book
reports.
'He
was
a
great
friend
of
Ian
Fleming
and
claimed
that
he
found
parts
of
his
own
stories
in
the
James
Bond
novels."
Another
model
for
Bond"s
exploits
might
have
been
Air
Commodore
Lionel
'Lousy"
Payne.
He
was
described
in
an
SIS
report
as
'often
well
informed,
probably
due
to
the
fact
that
information
is
more
readily
obtained
in
bed".