Room39 and the Lisbon Connection
Published on 11. June 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
246 pages
978-1-6641-7887-8 (ISBN)
Description
The introduction and the prologue detail quite explicitly what my novel is about. My book is based on a true story and lead characters, several of whom I knew personally in the late 1960s and early 1970s before they passed away. I never did meet Ian Fleming, the creator of the James Bond novels, as he left the UK for the West Indies after the end of World War II.
My book is therefore a historical novel with hitherto largely untold aspects based on my own personal knowledge, research, and professional experience. It's a great novel because as several reviewers have pointed out no one has ever told the story of how Room 39, Ian Fleming, and his boss and colleagues worked to undermine the Nazis in Portugal, and Lisbon specifically, and the ending with the meeting in NYC with Wild Bill Donovan. My novel shows how Fleming used his experiences in Room 39 as the basis for his postwar Bond novels.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
405 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6641-7887-8 (9781664178878)
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Person
Anthony Wells is unique insofar as he is the only living person to have worked for British intelligence as a British citizen and US intelligence as a US citizen, and to have also served in uniform at sea, and ashore, with both the Royal Navy and the US Navy. He is a fifty-year veteran of the Five Eyes intelligence community. In 2017, he was the Keynote Speaker on board H.M.S. Victory in Portsmouth, England, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the famous Zimmermann Telegram intelligence coup by Blinker Hall and his Room 40 team in British Naval Intelligence.
The guest of honour was Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, with the Five Eyes community: past and present, represented from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Anthony was trained and mentored in the late 1960s by the very best of the World War II intelligence community, including Sir Harry Hinsley, the famous Bletchley Park code-breaker, official historian of British intelligence in the World War II, Master of St. John s College, Cambridge, and Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University.
Sir Harry Hinsley introduced Anthony to the Enigma data before it became public knowledge. He received his PhD in War Studies from King s College, University of London, in 1972. He holds Bachelor s and Master s Degrees from the University of Durham, and a Master s degree from the London School of Economics. He was trained at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and received his advanced training at the School of Maritime Operations. He was called to the Bar by Lincoln s Inn in November 1980.
Anthony has four children and eight grandchildren and lives on his farm in Virginia. He is a Member of the Naval Order of the United States and was appointed an Honorary Crew Member of the USS Liberty by the USS Liberty Veterans Association. USS Liberty is the most highly decorated warship in the history of the US Navy for a single action, attacked by Israeli air and surface forces on 8 August 1967 in the eastern Mediterranean.
Anthony is the third chairman of the USS Liberty Alliance, succeeding the late Admiral Thomas Moorer, former chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Naval Operations, and the late Rear-Admiral Clarence Mark Hill, former distinguished US naval aviator and battle group commander. He is a retired US National Ski patroller and instructor, and a life member and former president of The Plains, Virginia, Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company. Wells is an FAA Commercial pilot with single and multi-engine, land and sea, instrument, and flight instructor Ratings.
Anthony was the technical director of Fleet Battle Experiments ALPHA and BRAVO in the Third Fleet, United States Pacific Fleet. He was the chief executive officer of TKC International LLC, a specialist company supporting the US Intelligence Community and Department of Defence, for twenty-five years. He held top secret SCI and special access clearances.