FAQ

May 6 in cinemas in Canada (Toronto, Hamilton, London, Ottawa, Kingston, Edmonton and Victoria) and May 11 on Netflix.

Whilst there have been a number of different explanations as to who came up with the concept the most plausible is James Bond author Ian Fleming in his "Trout Memo", a series of suggestions he made to the head of naval intelligence of possible operations and deceptions. However Fleming himself drew inspiration from author Sir Basil Thomson. An amazing polymath Thomson was at various times a divinity student at Oxford, farmer in Iowa, colonial administrator in Fiji, writer and prison governor. He would become head of Scotland Yard's CID, hunt German spies in Britain during WW1 and eventually become Britain's director of intelligence. combating Communist spies and playing a key role in defeating the IRA. Forced into early retirement he would return to writing and in one story ('The Milner's Hat') outlined a plot where a corpse loaded with phony documents would wash up on shore to provide disinformation to the authorities.

Yes.

Ian Fleming