Although this itself may sound like fiction, it turns out that the James Bond selection of works may have actually inspired the real-deal Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the States. In fact, the way it written makes it absolutely clear that Ian Fleming's work really did.
That's because the former Director of the CIA, Allen Dulles, wrote about it in a 1964 issue of LIFE.
One example was how Dulles wanted his team to really develop a homing-beacon-like capability as seen in Goldfinger. It didn't work out BUT he does hint that other ideas — we're obviously not privy to — did work. Only one's imagination can wander.
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...It's a bit hard to read, but amongst all the humblebragging about his bro-love with Fleming, Dulles drops in a little tidbit about spy gadgets. Namely, he really wanted the CIA to develop a real-life version of the homing-beacon Bond used to track his enemies' cars in Goldfinger. The end result "had too many bugs in it," he wrote, but the exercise wasn't at total waste, "because sometimes you came up with other ideas that did work..."
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