Not all historians accept Cook’s arguments, but they still provide interesting food for thought for Bond aficionados. Cook also contributed a tie-in article on his research to the British espionage magazine Eyespy, entitled ‘The Real Goldfinger’. Andrew Cook, and it formed the basis of a British Channel-5 TV documentary that was screened in July, 2009, narrated (very appropriately) by Honor ‘Pussy Galore’ Blackman.
This was the intriguing and controversial thesis put forward by historian Dr.
Did the Bond creator draw his inspiration from his knowledge of a real-life plot to blow up the Bank of England in central London? In 2009, some research by a historian raised an interesting question about where Ian Fleming possibly gained his idea from for the plot at the heart of his novel. Needless to say, James Bond thwarted this. The scriptwriter Richard Maibaum solved this conundrum in the EON movie version by having Auric Goldfinger (played so memorably by Gert Frobe) plant a small ‘dirty’ atomic device in the vaults of Fort Knox instead the ‘man who loved gold’ thus hoped to render the large supply of gold stored at Fort Knox highly radioactive and effectively useless for many years, driving up the value of his own personal wealth and causing disruption to the American economy.
Where did 007 author Ian Fleming gain his inspiration for the raid on Fort Knox in his best-selling novel Goldfinger? The recent 50th anniversary of the release of EON’s third James Bond film saw a number of fascinating articles on aspects of both the original Fleming novel and the subsequent movie, including speculation about the sheer logistics of trying to steal such a large amount of the precious metal from America’s high security gold vault (the basis of Fleming’s novel).
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