As noted by Spy Culture, Lockhart joined the British Foreign Service and was posted as vice consul to the Moscow station. This event is paralleled in the novel From Russia with Love when Bond finds himself sharing a train with an enemy pretending to be his friend. He kept his cool and struck up a conversation, managing to slip away when the train arrived in Paris. There are many examples of plot points from Bond novels that probably came from Yeo-Thomas' real-life adventures, like the time he was being hunted by the Nazis and found himself sitting next to Klaus Barbie, a high-ranking member of the Gestapo, on a train. On that last foray into occupied territory, he was captured by the Gestapo, arrested, and sent to the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp. Yeo-Thomas, code-named the White Rabbit, went behind enemy lines in France three times carrying out missions. As Business Insider notes, Ian Fleming actually wrote memos about Yeo-Thomas, briefing his colleagues on the spy's exploits.Īnd those exploits remain legendary. So it's actually not much of a surprise that a man named Forest Yeo-Thomas (known as Tommy) inspired a great deal of James Bond's adventures and style.
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