9. Fleming participated in the covert operations of Target Force in 1944
During the summer of 1944, as Operation Overlord took place in France, Fleming was part of the planning and operations committee for Target Force, known as T Force. T Force was a joint Anglo-American operation which did for science, engineering, and technology what the Monuments Men did for art, with one exception. T Force also targeted people, capturing leading German talent in their respective fields and bringing them to the areas under British and American control. Their actions included identifying personnel in the areas under control of the Soviets.
Fleming’s role was to identify targets and arrange the missions which captured them. In some instances, captured Germans already working for the Soviets were targeted for assassination or kidnapping. T Force existed as much as to deny German-developed technology and knowledge to the Soviets as it did to benefit the British and Americans. The activities of T Force were the beginning of the espionage operations against the Soviet Union and its allies which were a feature of the James Bond books of the 1950s and 1960s. Several of the operations conducted by T Force remained classified for decades following the war, but some now known operations were the basis of several of Bond’s adventures.