“They talked foreign affairs,” reported the Washington Post, “with Fleming arguing that the United States could topple Fidel Castro by dropping pesos over Havana, together with leaflets reading ‘Compliments of the United States.’”Ĭonspiracy-meisters have claimed that that’s what the CIA actually did, but the record is not clear. In 1960, he invited the writer to his Georgetown home. When he became president and a reporter asked him to name his favorite books, he included Fleming’s From Russia, with Love. Kennedy first read Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale while recovering from back surgery in 1954. Both were also given to hiding parts of themselves, and engaged in the kind of daring behavior exhibited by James Bond in Ian Fleming’s novels. They were men from distinctly opposed walks of life, and ended up being on opposite sides of a murder. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald were both killed in Dallas on the same weekend in November 1963.
