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Sean Connery as James Bond lights the cigarette of his SPECTRE captor Fiona Kelly (Luciana Paluzzi) in "Thunderball." 007 creator Ian Fleming researched the book and the character with the help of Ernest Cuneo, a former NFL player who was America's first World War II spy. They did a research trip across America in 1954 that included a stop in Chicago, with a visit to the Art Institute, author Thomas Maier recounts in the new Cuneo biography "The Invisible Spy."
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When WWII’s ‘Invisible Spy’ visited Chicago’s Art Institute with James Bond creator Ian Fleming
This excerpt from the new book by former Sun-Times reporter and “Masters of Sex” author Thomas Maier details the Bond research trip with Ernest Cuneo, the American secret agent who inspired the fictional 007.
By Thomas Maier