How Real Is James Bond: Former Spy Life Story | DEEP 

“You want all your spies to be different” Recruits exclusively from Cambridge 😂

"Will they trust their lives and their family's lives with them" "If they get caught I'm on the first plane home"

This guy is good. Deserves a full hour interview

This channel is going to blow up. More content on intelligence like this please

The special feature of Ian Fleming was his ability to write a story that people would want to read, he was fortunate that being DDNI in WW2 the ideas for stories would flow over his desk every day for all his service time. His stories have credibility, and the excitement that his reader's required.

I just learned, never trust a spy. also learned being a spy, you have a career where your employer wants to see you succeed.

At a guess Bond has been dramatically important to MI6 simply because Bond stands out, his car(s) women and drinking, plus he must have a hotel room packed full of incriminating gadgets. Assume that a British spy is like Bond, then simply don't notice the grey man or woman who simply does the job, doesn't, get noticed, then vanishes silently. BUT a grey man as Bond wouldn't sell books/films.

crisping my entire house

I like this man, clearly very switched on and has had an amazing career!

Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt once was asked the same question: was it all worth it. And he said „when the rooster crows on the dung heap, the weather will change or stay as it is“

I get the impression that real espionage is usually as exciting as working in a tax office. But when it's not, a spies best weapon or gadget is plausible deniability.

Interestingly cold: "When the job goes belly up, I'm on the first plane back to London....But the agents get left behind to do the job....So" Looks like it's key to be able to turn off your humanity in order to be able to retire in this profession. Too inhuman for me, I could not do it. But I do know that this job has to be done.

Fantastic interview. Thank you to the guest for sharing part of his life story.

In the 115 years that MI6 had existed, there has never been an officer lost... because we say so. Especially, not Gareth Williams. 👍

great piece of PR that lulls people into thinking this dude is not a karate master

"thye're looking to take your strengths and support them"that sounds worth working for

90% office work. 10% observing.

15:00 I know someone who went to Moscow on holiday in the late 70s or early 80s. He was an odd bloke, very left wing, he'd always wanted to visit the USSR because he saw it as an ideal place, he fully believed their propaganda and so on, he went through the process of getting a tourist visa to the USSR which wasn't easy in those days and he brought with him his brand new camera to take some photos and document the experience. That was fine, he said at the airport they checked his papers and his camera and he was assigned to a tour bus which would take him to Red Square and he was allowed to wander around and photograph things, because it is always kept nice for people to photograph in these tours. But you see Peter was an odd bloke, as you may well expect of someone whose dream holiday was a guided tour of Soviet Russia and he wanted to see a bit more, he wanted "the real Communist utopia" so he wandered off from the back end of his tour and went down a street, continuing to take pictures of houses and saying hello to people in his bad Russian 😂 Apparently after about 5 or 10 minutes of this a black GAZ 24 pulled up and two men in long overcoats got out and walked over to him, snatched the camera out of his hand, opened the film up and exposed it all, then dropped the camera on the ground and stamped on it. One wagged his finger and the other pointed back down the street towards Red Square.

Skripal was poisoned with Novichok not polonium. Litvinenko was polonium

James Bond never found 006 padlocked in bits in a sportsbag

Really interesting interview. Thank you for doing this.

This is excellent and no lies detected. The end is on point. Was it worth it. Did the world change? My answer was no

Great video. Good luck with the new channel.

came from TikTok, love this, dont stop

This was fascinating. I've subscribed.❤

You can tell he's unscripted and free from moral restraints. I'm not learning anything new about methods but i am learning a lot about reading a person. Thanks to posters who said beware of factual accuracy!

I will relate the following. There was a British spy in Germany immediately pre-WW2. He rode the rails! Yep. He simply rode the rails around Germany, doing reports. Was it dangerous? Absolutely! If caught and detected, he would have been executed forthwith. The spy eventually retired, moved to downtown Los Angeles and died in obscurity. When the former Soviet achieves were opened after the fall of the Soviet Union, it was learned that the predecessor of the FSB had more accurate and up-to-date maps of San Francisco than the US Army. In Europe, in the '70's, Russian Spetnaz people would be truck drivers running routes from Turkey to Great Britain and taking notes. In late October 1987, around October 23rd Spetnaz troops, driving a truck marked "Polish Mineral Expedition" tested the Soviet built concrete highway outside of Khandahar, Afghanistan to learn if it were solid enough to handle aircraft landings. Not glamorous, but necessary.

Another top upload there deep

Would love to see you do an updated interview with Edward Snowden.

Subbed. This was a really interesting interview. Looking forward to watching more!

Thank you for such an engaging and informative chat.

Super interesting vid!

I love the story about the massive cameras. Hilarious!

Not bond. These people are information gatherers. Researchers, intelligence etc. Its the SAS or SBS seconded that do the action. If at all.

The structural maze is already there for you guys to have fun 😂

Sounds interesting hope this channel catches on😊

I like the idea of this channel. This was a great video. The dissonance of the music… not sure about.

James Bond did use a 'crisp' to detect if somebody entered his room; he placed a tiny hair in his room in one of the novels by Fleming that was disturbed, indicating his room was entered into.

This was fantastic. Thoroughly engaging and interesting

Very interesting, thanks.

James Bond is real. James Bond is not an analyst or a recruiter or officer. James Bond is an agent. James Bond is a disposable asset and his job is to infiltrate elite enemies of Britain. That's why he is allocated a big budget through the treasury which allows him to have what a mission would require. He is also given a license to kill so that he will not be trialled in a UK court. There is a misnomer that James Bond works for MI6. He doesn't. He actually receives a stipend through his company Universal Exports LTD and checks in with his handler which is M. M as James should never know an officers real identity. Many of the elite movers and shakers are actually their respective countries' versions of James Bond. The curious case of Jeffrey Epstein (Bond Villain) who went from school teacher to Billionaire, only he was never really a billionaire, he just had a massive budget to entrap other agents.

Fleming was basically M. He was the one sending people behind enemy lines during WWII to commit acts of espionage. I'd love for James Bond to go back to the 40s or 50s. Make it a period piece about his origins. I've had an idea for it for years, whereby the pre-credits sequence is Bond on a mission at the tail end of WWII. By the time he returns for a debrief, Germany has surrendered and the war is over. Post-title sequence, Bond returns to his native Scotland and in the post-war peace, he doesn't know what to do with himself until one day, his old commander comes to visit him, talking about tensions rising with the Russians and a new initiative being spearheaded by British Intelligence called the Double O Programme.

Use two detection mechanisms. One "obvious" one, one hidden one. If both are tripped, you know someone came in. If the obvious one was replaced, you know it wasn't just anyone.

They're the crepe sole, rumpled clothes people, innocuous with a lethal skill of observation and a peculiar intelligence for thinking outside the box.

15:30 - Q: "Pay attention Mr. Ferguson..."

Excellent.

I believe about 50% of what he says - OSA still in effect and he probably still has links

very, very interesting!

Very fascinating and by all counts might as well be perfectly accurate, albeit I might add that you have just seen a description of a profession that deals with assessing and producing deception. This fine chap has maybe "retired" from a profession from which by his own words no person retires and maintains it's secrets. So given his fine health and sound mental state how can I really know that anything he says is actually real and if I choose to accept it as factual , is that the effect he planned and to what end? In any case cool video bro.

What is the NIS that he mentioned a few times? anyone know?

Very interesting. Would have loved to hear him comment on Argo and the real events that inspired the film.

“I joined in a very unusual way…” Goes on to explain how every spy seems to get recruited 🤔

Mugabe was a headache for these guys

I remember you, believe you were named Tom and we met in Bangkok back in thr late 90s.

4:01 I guess the real question… is how many agents have died 😅

Great video

Majority of spies are “ordinary” people, you get travel bloggers, foreign investors, university lecturers etc… in my time in the services Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya and across the Middle East came across many of these people, sometimes you have people who work for NGOs who will then be asked to also provide information for the intelligence services, a lot of times the info is trivial and leads to other leads etc, from my experience the whole thing is pretty boring personally never came across anyone who was anything like James Bond or Bourne, most were like Mr Worger from English lit or Jack Corrigan travel vlogger and author.

Sounds like being an undercover cop is more exciting. You probably get more “action”. And still gather intel. You also more hands on interacting.

My girlfriends grandfather was MI6 killed by the Nazis in WW2, so when he says none have been killed, he must mean excluding WW2.

I need to confess: i never run as fast as i can.

The Skripsks were poisoned with Novichok, not Polonium.

What are MI-1 through 4 up to?

the more i listen to this, the more i think it sounds MORE like the OLD 60's James Bond movies (there was less action and more creative spying and subterfuge , reconing and cover ups, in the old movies) lol. I meen the writer was an mi6 wasn't he? So basically cellphones and smart phones are manifestations of SPY GEAR lol. Vibrating boxes? so you know when youve received a message without making an audible sound? that sounds familiar......i do this all the time at the theatre so the noise is not audible , when im recieving a secret transmission from an associate.

The fact that he can talk about this means he's a non-official PR person for MI6, right?

When he says agent in America we call asset. An agent is same as officer here

Cover NOC's😮

Fleming was the second of admiral godfred ..his novel was story. But his description was inspired by oss training..for movie bond is far away from books..ambler, lecarre, leighton were real agent

Moonraker was especially realistic, its all lasers, and magic cars in the intelligence service

Sign me up!

Street smart, clam and resourceful…average Ivy League or Cambridge/Oxford grad….

You are now entering the most secure location in England ! :))))))))))))

Very interesting interview. What must be kind of disappointing is that you spend your entire life lying and being lied to, and in the end you're not sure if it was all worth it..

MI-7 is the production arm of MI-6. Hi Mark Bowden Target 🎯

So the real question is how many agents have been killed due to contact with MI-6?

wow a real spy kids

James Bond is not a Spy. He is special forces, E squadron.

Great channel, please maintain the British fruitful information style, don't turn it into American

How many agents have been killed in the 115 in assignment? And is Bond an agent or an officer?

Can you write the next Bond film please?

So, how are we to believe anything a professional liar says?

Thats only because they don't really deal with dangerous people think about it in certain places you can get killed for fucked up look. And most places the locals know everyone in their hood so if a couple of pasties show up out of nowhere and speak your language something ain't right

how many contradictions did you hear?

I always wonder how they teleport. 1:00

Shame he got the Skripal poisoning incorrect.

When the surveillance is around it is better not to joke people about logical problems that are relevant to spying. It is better to do something like go to Karaoke and eat loads of wings watching tv there.

I wish you had asked him if the money is good.

‘People are deep’ wow how profound…

The mid-show advert really annoys me. Don't hoodwink me into the content to try and catch me into listening to your channel pitch. First time I tolerated it. This time I'm offski. - Viewer Retention.

gotta love the brits

was his teacher John Cleese? ;p

No action means spies not cool. Why you need combat training?

How many people who have worked in the "shadows" so to speak have been compromised, gathered up by your side, complete with wife and family, taken to somewhere safe, issued with false passports and identities, and cover stories which not only you but your wife and kids have to memorise. You are then transported to a friendly country to spend the rest of your life condemned to pretend to be somebody you are not.

Doppelganger.

What about the booze and broads?

Why would you want anyone too know you that you were a spy?

I think he means the original mission impossible TV series rather than the Tom Cruise action rubbish

"the number of MI6 agents that have been killed is ZERO!" Yeah because they never existed in the first place, righhhhht 😜

Bond is just stupid movie for the masses, however, it is important and beloved movie, with all the special effects, chases and mistakes and flaws

No karate? So disillusioned now.

The C.I.A. has lost a horrendous number although they probably do it deliberately for sport.