Tidbits and stories concerning the Bond movies.
Number24
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Sometimes I find some info or have a thought about the Bond movies. I want to post it, but I feel it's not enough to create a new thread just to post it. That's why I'm starting this thread. I hope members will find the thread useful. Here's my first item for this thread:
A friend of mine recently talked to an Ukranian who served in Afghanistan as a Soviet officer during the 1980's. The Ukranian was promoted from lieutenant to captain and he served in logistics. The man said the staff officers made a lot of money. "How?" aske dmy friend. "They smuggled opium in coffins" was the reply. Does this remind you of anything? 😉
Yes, there seems like there was a grain of truth to TLD.
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I never doubted it for a minute
I remember reading references to Soviet officers smugling drugs from Afghanistan for years, but I think the detail about the coffins felt pretty Bondian to me. Afghanistan was politically and socially the Soviet Vietnam experience, including the drugs.
Your thread title put me in mind of an old British magazine from the 1970s - though with a name like that I thought it was a soft porn mag, but it seems not.
From the headlines, it seems nothing much changes in good ol' Blighty...Russian honey traps and secret Tories heading the Labour Party!
Roger Moore 1927-2017
Then again, most things makes you think of porn. 😂
Smuggling drugs in the coffins of soldiers goes back before the Soviets in Afghanistan. American drug dealer/gangsters were doing it during the Vietnam War. Check out the film American Gangster which was based on real life Harlem Drug Lord Frank Lucas. Lucas bypassed the Mafia and was sourcing Heroin directly from drug lords in Southeast Asia and shipping it to the USA in military coffins.
From the Sunday Times Atticus column (by Hunter Davies), Sept. 20, 1964:
Coldfingers
Hard on the heels of the film Goldfinger comes a cartoon called "Goldwhiskers." It's about a mouse who likes his girl friends covered entirely in cheese.
Unfortunately, some people seem to be taking Ian Fleming too seriously. After all Goldfinger itself doesn't. So what harm could a parody of a parody possibly do?
The people who made the cartoon thought it would be a good idea if it went out with Goldfinger, and so did the Goldfinger producers.
"We saw it and liked it very much," says Mr Harry Saltzman, co-producer of Goldfinger. "But the circuits don't like it."