Fleming, Ian.

writing as foreign manager of Kemsley newspapers to a journalist in Warsaw, advising him on his journalistic activities in Poland, discussing his contributions ("...Your general coverage, while gratifyingly meagre, is of a high standard and you need certainly be in no hurry to start firing off weighty political pieces..."), his living arrangements and personal affairs, with later letters preparing him for a move to Moscow including how to evade censorship ("...I fear all codes are useless and most of them are blown open in any case..") and the requirements of a good journalist ("...it does require infinite persistence, an excellent knowledge of the Russian language, a daily reading of the lesser known papers ... and a very careful study of the 'intellectual' trands which are so often being rapped on the knuckles by the Russians and which are, in fact, the only escape-valve for discontent..."), 20 pages, various sizes, Kemsley House, London, 3 January to 13 October 1947



[together with:] 8 telegrams from Fleming to Carroll, and a carbon copy of a letter by Fleming to Marie Catton in Moscow, 13 October 1947; also with retained carbon copies of 18 letters and one telegram by Carroll to Fleming, Warsaw, 13 December 1946 to 15 November 1947; also including Carroll's other correspondence and papers from Warsaw and his previous posting in Nuremberg during the trials of leading Nazis, including both letters received and carbon copies of letters sent, telegraphed copy, finished articles and notes on the Nuremberg trials and on Polish subjects, several hundred pages, in three files, 1946-47

Unpublished letters by Fleming to a colleague in Poland at the beginning of the Cold War. Fleming began work at Kemlsey Newspapers (which included The Sunday Times and The Daily Graphic) in 1945. As foreign manager he was, in effect, managing a global information-gathering organisation - much as he had for Naval Intelligence during the war. He employed many former intelligence operatives and encouraged his men in the field to give discreet support to local British embassies. Fleming's experience in intelligence is much in evidence in this correspondence and there are also many flashes of his wry humour, such as his over-elaborate encoding of the news that Carroll was considering marriage ("...An unusually perspicacious bird tells me that there is a strong smell of orange blossom in your neighbourhood...") to his advice that, when exposed to the ballet and other pleasures on offer under Communism, Carroll should inoculate himself with regular readings from Trevelyan's History of England.