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Sept 13, 1814: Francis Scott Key, distant relative of F. Scott Fitzgerald writes Star Spangled Banner.




Sept 13, 1916: Roald Dahl was born. British Security Coordination (covert organisation part of MI6 setup in NYC), agent of influence, male honey trap/Romeo spy, and propagandist. Also, wrote stories, children's stories, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The BFG, The Twits and George's Marvellous Medicine.



Roald Dahl was tasked with romancing Clare Boothe Luce (American writer, politician, U.S. ambassador to Italy, and public conservative figure) as part of British intelligence operation when she was in Congress. Objective was to soften her stance toward UK.



Roald Dahl’s first published work, Shot Down Over Libya was in the Saturday Evening Post August 1, 1942. He actually ran out of fuel and wasn’t in the U.S. recovering from injuries. He was in the U.S. spying.

Tradecraft did work it's way into some of Roald Dahl's stories, particularly those for adults. In the short story My Lady Love, My Dove (New Yorker June 21, 1952) he details an amateur bugging operation.




Sept 13, 1944: Noor Inayat Khan born in Moscow on January 1, 1914 in Moscow, codename Madeleine, Nurse (SOE callsign), Jeanne-Marie Renier (SOE alias), hero of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). 1st female radio operator in occupied France. Executed by Nazis at the infamous Dachau concentration camp along with fellow SOE officers, Yolande Beekman, Madeleine Damerment and Eliane Plewman were executed at dawn. In 1949, Khan was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service, the highest civilian decoration for gallantry in the United Kingdom and also the French Croix de Guerre with a silver star. In 2018, Netflix released an original show entitled "Churchill's Secret Agents the new recruits", with Season 1, episode 4 featuring a summary of Noor's final mission with the SOE.



Noor, the daughter of Hazrat Inayat Khan, founder of the mystical Sufi Order of the West, was also a musician and poet.


William King "Bill" Harvey (Sept 13, 1915 – June 9, 1976) joined the FBI in Dec 1940 specializing in German and Soviet counterintelligence throughout World War II. In July 1947, he broke a regulation on being available on two-hour call due to sleeping off heavy drinking at a party the night before. He refused the resulting demotion and reassignment to Indianapolis, Indiana, preferring to resign. He joined the CIA shortly thereafter and is best known for his role in the terrorism and sabotage campaign known as Operation Mongoose. He plotted to reduce the FBI's overseas powers, his knowledge of the Bureau proved to be invaluable to the CIA. He played a role in Operation Gladio, was instrumental in construction of Berlin tunnels and suspected Kim Philby had been a Soviet spy for a long time, but due to his heavy drinking problem was ignored, but eventually Philby was fired.

In 1975, he testified before the Church Committee on some of the CIA's past operations.

Harvey was known as "America's James Bond", a tag given to him by major general Edward Lansdale. Some researchers believe that Harvey was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.


In the (2019) comic book, Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone Book 1 Harvey is a CIA director, member of the Assassin Order and secretly a Templar agent, and the mastermind behind the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988), was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union.

Larry Hancock – A Political H-Bomb: How Johnny Roselli and William Harvey Preempted the Garrison Investigation in Washington D.C. - podcast from the Assassination Archives

Remember that time during Watergate when Edward Lansdale planned to fake the second coming of a pro-US Christ using submarine-mounted holograms to distract/manipulate the catholic population of Cuba long enough to stage and justify an invasion? Jacques Vallée mentions this in a late 80s (1987?) interview.

Or his hallmark psychological warfare tactic was using local myths. A celebrated trick was the exploitation of a Filipino belief in the existence of vampires to scare communist guerrillas.


Fun Fact: Desmond Llewelyn’s "Q" role in Bond films is said to be based on real life Special Operations Executive (SOE) gadgeteer Charles Fraser-Smith. Here’s a side by side comparison.



Fraser was also involved in the intelligence operation codenamed Operation Mincemeat:

He was asked to provide a container 6' 2" long, 3' wide, to carry a 'deadweight' of 200lb. Fraser-Smith, as usual, didn't ask why, but later learned that the container was used in Project Martin. Project Martin was immortalised in the film "The Man Who Never Was", starring Clifton Webb. The body of a man who died of pneumonia was provided with papers and personal effects of a 'Major Martin' of the General Staff, and the body and a briefcase containing the plans for an allied invasion of Sardinia was dumped in the sea off Spain. Copies of the plans duly fell into the hands of the Germans and they prepared for an attack - but the real attack, when it came, was targeted at Sicily!
Charles Fraser-Smith - The man who was 'Q'

Charles Fraser-Smith, Mr. Gadget For James Bond Tales, Dies at 88 (November 13, 1992)

Charles Fraser-Smith, the gadget-designing genius on whom the character "Q" in the James Bond novels and movies was modeled, died on Monday at his home in Bratton Fleming, in southwest England. He was 88 years old.

His family announced his death yesterday. The cause was not disclosed.

His early career was one detour after another. He was a prep-school teacher in Portsmouth, a motorcycle messenger rider and an aircraft factory worker. Then, one Sunday in 1939, he gave a sermon at the Open Brethren Evangelical Church in Leeds. 'A Funny Job in London'

In the congregation were two Ministry of Supply officials, who were impressed by his adventures when he bought a farm in Morocco and ran for the Moroccan royal family. The two officials offered him what he called "a funny job in London."

Sept 13, 1987: the tragic and deadly radiological accident in Goiânia, Brazil, began when two young male scrap hunters unwittingly stole a highly-radioactive teletherapy source assembly from an abandoned cancer clinic, later selling it to a junkyard for roughly $25.



Within six weeks, 19 grams of glowing cesium-137 chloride from the source capsule contaminated 249 people, hospitalized 20, killed 4 (including 6-year-old Leide Ferreira), and created 6,000 tons of radioactive waste. For more see this 1988 IAEA report: THE RADIOLOGICAL ACCIDENT IN GOIANIA (PDF)


Guys, mother nature is black.


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