AN EVENING WITH JFK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100270001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 27, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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An Esethngwith'
Everything was going
Fleming ',,'way, everyone was
becoming interested in James,
Bond--even John Fitzgerald
Kennet)y. It was during this
spring of 1960 that the two
,men net: a casual encounter
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were building him up into a mosphere over the island '' trigued by the mystique
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world figure, inflating him in- t. had become 'radioactive; 'which was already beginning,
toad of deflatng him. It lvoutd' ;? :' that radioactivity is held to surround him.
be perfectly simple to apply.;.' ?' longest in beards; and that From then on Fleming'
one or two ideas which would,,, 'radioactivity makes men maintained his connection
take all the steam out of the' impotent.. As a conse- with the family, sending suit-
Cuban. quence the Cubans would ?. ably inscribed copies of his'
Kennedy studied the bond- shave off their beards. and b
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part in the strange and som- come Engnshmau, rather ? - without bearded Cubans Robert Kennedy, and to their
beg story of Ian Flemings '
study sister, Mrs. Eunice Shriver.
~l ,lehim.,Was he an oddball,;:there would-be no rev-
last years. ? olution. ('I wish someone else could
When Fleming went to see or something more. ' What He kept his toot on the ped- :-
read it also,' said a black-
,his friend Mrs. Marion "Oat- ideas had Mr... Fleming in al for ten minutes, and it was
edged card written to Fleming
ale" Leiter on Sunday, March 'mind? c a great success.
13, she mentioned that she was 1'. "Ridicule, chiefly," said,I Zarly.the following morn- in the Spring of 1964 by the
Fleming. And with immense ; . .Attorney General of the U.S.,
,': dining with the Kennedys ing Fleming left Washington Robert Kennedy, thanking
that evening. After lunch at seriousness and confidence lie, for New York, but the eve- him for "You Only Live
her house she was driving developed a spoof proposal for Wing at the Kepnedys was to Twice.") At the White House
Fleming through Georgetown giving Castro the James Bgnd, have its own hilarious post- the new President would
. when she spotted the Ken- treatment. There were,- he script. - Half an hour after sometimes ask Brandon, for
nedys strolling along P Street. said, three things which really. Fleming had left, Allen Dul-
mattered to the Cubans: news of Ian Fleming.
She asked them if she could les, head of - the CIA, tele-
bring a visitor to dinner with money, . religion, . and sex. phoned Henry Brandon, Lon- "Kennedy," says Brandon,
them that. evening. . Therefore: don ? Sunday,. Times corre- "was fascinated by the line
"Who's that?" asked Ken - t 1. The United St~tes_ should ; pondent and friend of Flem- diving Ian's real life from the
nedy politely. send planes to scatter Cu?:, Already he had heard of fantasy life that went into his'
She introduced them. "Mr. ban money over Havana, the secret weapon for demol- books.. He often asked me how
Ian Fleming - Senator Ken- accompanying it with leaf fishing Castro and regretted such an intelligent, mature,
nedy." lets showing that it came that lie wasn't able tp hear urbane sort of man could
Kennedy studied. Fleming with the compliments. of about Flc-ming's ideas in per.- ?. have such an element of odd
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There were seven for din-. religious manifesfatio-+,1 g i g rearson, Copyri R. et cot yaen Joan
the time beint was enough reanon? and s. ~ and o, (authors)
ner at the Kennedy's house r;? say a cross of sorts, to tb.a r that Fleming-had recruited his'1,L4.
that evening, the guests he. ei- -
ang, journalist Joseph Alsop,
,`painter William Walton, art
a man from'the CIA Jol?,
Bross. ""~~ ?,(
self ith
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largely co
the more arcane aspects of that owing to Amet4,46r~
American politics and Fltm-. atom bomb tests tbt6 aye
dued. But with the coffee and
the entrance of Castro into
the conversation he inter-
vened in his most engaging
style. Cuba was already high i.
on the headache list of Wish-
ington politicians, and anoth-
or of those what's-to-be-done
conversations began to de-;
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By JOHN PEARSON
sky which would induc most lntpbitant fan and that do Sunday! Globe.-A Legal
the Cubans to look cad , the KennPe1vv 'hare 'been in., Dieaster-
send planes over .. Cub.,
dropping pamphlets, with,;
the compliments of tYti
' Soviet Union, to 4e ef,(# .;
theme that the United States
wns makinff altogether too 4