F-2006-01287 INITIAL REQUEST

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ROBBYN SWAN
'JUL 0 7 2005
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Freedom of Information Act Request
Mr. Scott A. Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Re: James Bond, aka "Jim Bond"
Dear Mr. Koch,
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June 27, 2006
I am an American author and journalist, co-author of two acclaimed bestselling
non-fiction books, The Arrogance of Power: The Secret Life of Richard Nixon, (Viking,
2000) and Sinatra: The Life (Alfred Knopf, 2005).
I am currently conducting research for an article on the real-life individuals who
were the models for novelist Ian Flemming's fictional British spy James Bond.
In connection with this project and pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5
U.S.C. � 552, I would like to request all records on or pertaining to James Bond, also
known as "Jim" Bond.
James Bond, an ornithologist, was born on January 4, 1900 and died on 14
February 1989. I duly attach two obituaries.
All searches should be conducted under the subject's name and nicknames and all
logical variations thereof.
Please search all locations or repositories of records that might be responsive to
this request, including all directorates, offices, stations, units or other components of the
CIA, and any location where responsive records may have been archived or warehoused.
Please include "soft files" and operational records in your search. If records pertaining to
the subject of this request exist or are likely to exist but cannot be located by a search of
your indices, please conduct a search using whatever other search methods you have at
your disposal that may result in the retrieval of such records.
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As a journalist and author I cannot be charged a search fee. . See 5 U.S.C. � 552
(A) (4) (A) (ii) (II).
Materials on Mr. Bond in CIA files will necessarily shed light on the operations
or activities of the government. Among other things they will reveal the extent, nature,
and duration of the CIA's interest in Mr. Bond and the reasons therefor. Because the
information I seek is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of such
operations or activities, I am entitled to a waiver of copying costs. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. �
552 (a) (4) (a) (iii), I therefore request that I be granted such a waiver.
The term "records" as used herein includes all form of documentary materials,
including but not limited to written records, records maintained in an electronic form,
audio and video tapes, movie films, photographs, computer disks, etc.
In addition to the records specified above, I request:
a) all index references to Mr. Bond.
b) all previous Freedom of Information Act requests for records on Mr. Bond.
c) all lists or inventories or worksheets generated in processing this request or
any prior request for records on Mr. Bond; and
d) all search slips or other records which document the search (es) undertaken in
response to this or any prior request for records pertaining to Mr. Bond.
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James Bond (ornithologist)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Bond (January 4, 1900 � February 14, 1989) was a leading American ornithologist whose name was
appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy James Bond.
The real Bond was born in Philadelphia and worked as an ornithologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences in
that city, rising to become curator of birds there. He was expert about Caribbean birds and wrote the defmitive
book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies, first published in 1936 and, in its fifth edition, still in print (ISBN
0618002103).
Ian Fleming, who was a keen bird watcher living in Jamaica, was familiar with Bond's book, and chose the name
of its author for the hero of Casino Royale in 1953, apparently because he wanted a name that sounded 'as
ordinary as possible'. Fleming wrote to the real Bond's wife, "It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-
Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what! needed, and so a second James Bond was born." In the
twentieth James Bond film, Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan, playing the fictional Bond, can be seen examining
the book Birds of the West Indies in an early scene that takes place in Havana, Cuba.
Bond was once denied access onto an aircraft when he showed his passport to the staff, bearing his name. It took
quite a bit of explaining.
Bond won the Institute of Jamaica's Musgrave Medal in 1952; the Brewster Medal of the American Ornithologists
Union in 1954; and the Leidy Medal of the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1975.
He died in the Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia at age 89.
References
� The Associated Press. "James Bond, Ornithologist, 89; Fleming Adopted Name for 007.1" The New York
Times. February 17, 1989. p. D19.
. Kenneth C. Parkes. "In Memoriam: James Bond." Auk. Vol. 106. P. 718. (Available as atpdf here
(http://elibrary.umn.edu/sora/Auldv106n04/p0718-p0720.pdf), with a photograph).
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_%28ornithologist%29"
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In Alernoriwor
IN MEMORIAM: JAMES BOND
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 USA
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JAMES BOND, 1900-3989
(From a photograph taken in 1984)
James Bond, internationally regarded as the
doyen of Caribbean ornithology, died on 14
Febniary 1989, after battling cancer for many
years.
Bond was born in Philadelphia on 4 January
1900 and was a bridge between the centuries in
his ornithology as in his lifespan. His education
began at the Delancey School and later the pres-
tigious St. Paul's School in Concord, New
Hampshire. After his mother died, he left St.
Paul's, and he and his father moved to England.
There James entered Harrow in preparation for
Cambridge University, where he received his
BA. in 1922.. He lived in England for eight yews,
and his vocal inflections remained an amalgam
of New England, British, and upper-class Phil-
adelphian all his life.
His first pos on after graduation was in the
Foreign Exchai ;e Department of the Pennsyl-
vania Comparn (a banking firm), but a boyhood
interest in natl.; rat history, originally manifest-
ed in butterfly collecting, won out, and he re-
signed from the bank in 1925, after less than
three years. He accepted an invitation to accom-
pany Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee on a col-
lecting expedition to the lower Amazon River,
Brazil, on behalf of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSI'). The report on
their collections (1928, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philadelphia 80: 149-176) was written by Wit-
mer Stone, Curator of Birds at the ANSI', but
incorporated the field notes of both of thevx-
pedition participants.
Although Bond continued to pu'ousn papera,
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on South American birds (some coauthored with
Meyer de Schauerisee), notably those of Bolivia
and Peru, these were based on specimens in the
ANSP collected by M. A. Carriker Jr., J. Stein-
bach, and others, rather than on Bond's own
fieldwork He had determined, not long after
returning from Brazil, that his real ornitholog-
ical interests centered on the Caribbean islands,
and these studies became his life's work. His
only other expedition to a South American
country, in the company of William H. Phelps
and his family in 1961, was to the islands off
Venezuela, an expedition that influenced his
thinking about the limits of the Antillean avi-
fauna' subregion.
Bond's "Check-list of Birds of the West In-
dies," published by the ANSP, appeared in four
successive editions, the last in 1956. He kept the
check-list up-to-date through a series of 27 Sup-
plements, published 1956 through 1987. The
first version of his book "Birds of the West In-
dies" (ANSP 1936) was not a field guide in the
modern sense, having no color plates other than
a frontispiece of a tody. He converted this into
a field guide with color plates by Don Eckel-
berry in 1947; this was published by Macmillan,
but a series of revised editions (including sup-
plementary plates by Arthur Singer) was issued
by Collins in England and Houghton Mifflin in
the United States. Bond completed revisions for
a 6th edition of the field guide shortly before
his death.
A bachelor for more than half a century, in
1953 Bond married Mary Fanning Wickham
Porcher Lewis, widow of a prominent Phila-
delphia lawyer. Mary was already a published
poet and novelist, and she subsequently wrote
several books about her life with James Bond,
as well as an autobiography (1988) entitled
"Ninety Years 'At Home' in Philadelphia."
The experiences of the Bonds in the 1960s
have now passed into legend and were played
up by the media in their obituaries of James. In
1960, in a London newspaper review of a re-
vision of the field guide, cryptic reference was
made to sadomasochism, Smith and Wesson
guns, and other aspects of a life utterly unlike
that of James Bond of Philadelphia. This was
the first hint to reach Jim and Mary of the other
James Bond, who was to plague their lives for
years afterward. They soon learned that the
British novelist Ian Fleming, who had a home
in Jamaica and was something of a bird-watch-
er, had taken the name James Bond from the
field guide and given it to his fictional char-
acter, a dashing, womanizing counterspy. Mary
Bond's little book "How 007 Got his Name"
(Collins 1966) tells the whole story with great
good humor; inexplicably, no American pub-
lisher bought the rights to this book (which was
a best-seller in Britain and was translated into
French), and it is now a collector's item.
Bond. joined the American Ornithologists'
Union in 1923, became a Member (equivalent
to current Elective Member) in 1929, and was
elected FeLlow in 1946, He was awarded the
Brewster Medal in 1954. Other honors included
the Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica
(1953), the Wilderness Club (Philadelphia)
Medal (1961), the Leidy Medal of the ANSI'
(1975), the Silver Medal of the Congreso lber-
americano de Ornitologia (1983), and Honorary
Membership in the British Ornithologists'
Union (1987). In 1973, David Lack proposed, in
a letter to Bond, that the avifauna' boundary
between Tobago and the Lesser Antilles, which
Bond had emphasized in his zoogeographical
writings, be called "Bond's Line."
In addition to tes' books, the check-list, and
its supplements, Bond published about thirty
papers on birds of the West Indies and periph-
eral islands. He also published about half a doz-
en papers on the birds of his beloved Maine
and the adjacent Maritime Provinces. He sel-
dom attended meetings of the major ornitho-
logical societies, but he and I both participated
in a highly successful symposium on the Pa-
rulinae arranged by George Miksch Sutton for
the Wilson Ornithological Society (1959) meet-
ing in Itoddand, Maine. I owe to Harold May-
field an anecdote to the effect that the late Fred
Hebard of Philadelphia persuaded Bond to drive
with him to the Wilson Society meeting at
Douglas Lake, Michigan, in 1953. The Mayfields
encountered them at a restaurant en route,
where Hebard informed them that this was the
first time Bond had ever been west of Paoli, a
suburb of Philadelphia. Bond remarked that the
country seemed very large!
Although he has said that his interest in birds
began at Spring House, Pennsylvania, when he
was five, Bond's desire to become an ornithol-
ogist was especially stimulated by his rather
dashing father, Francis E. Bond. who led an
expedition to the Orinoco Delta on behalf of
the ANSP when James was 11. Among his con-
temporaries, Bond's heroes were Alexander
Wetmore, Alexander Sketch, and Ernst Mayr
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In Memoriam [Auk, Vol. 1045,
(with whom he published a seminal paper on
swallow classification based largely on nesting
habits II943, Ibis 85: 334-343D. The nidification
of birds was one of his most compelling inter-
ests, after Caribbean zoogeography, which ex-
plains his admiration for Skutch. Be believed
that in nesting habits might be found clues to
the relationships of such problematical West
Indian genera as Microligea and Leucopeza.
Both Bond and his colleague Meyer de
Schauensee held appointments on the scientific
staff of the ANSP, but they were among the last
of a traditional museum breed, the indepen-
dently wealthy, nonsalaried curator, who lacked
advanced university degrees. When illness pre-
vented his regular commuting to the ANSP, he
continued to write at home, using materials
brought to hint by Frank Gill, Mark Robbins,
and others.
Visitors to the ANSP, knowing of Bond's many
expeditions to West Indian islands, are always
suprised to see how few specimens he actually
collected. His approach to systematics tended
to be rather typological, precluding the neces-
sity, in his eyes, of collecting large series.
Nevertheless, many of his conclusions in his
taxonomic papers have held up, and his zoo-
geographic analyses of the Caribbean avifauna
Inevitably form the bases for all subsequent
studies.
I am indebted to Mary Wickham Bond and
Frank B. Gill for much of the material incor-
porated into this memorial.
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