SECRET WAR OF CHARLES FRASER-SMITH

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NARRATOR: We can’t be sure exactly which tools the agent on this mission has been equipped with but we do know what the pilot has brought with him. Flight Sergeant McCairns has no intention of being under-prepared if he were ever to be stranded in occupied Europe again. Under his flight overalls, he is wearing a complete suit of Belgian civilian clothes and has a .38 revolver strapped around his waist. CHARLES FRASER-SMITH: Fleming was determined to get his hands on German codebooks. And at that time, a number of German bombers had been captured more or less intact after crash landing in Britain.

Fraser-Smith’s parents died when he was a child. He was brought up by a missionary family and became a Brethren missionary to Morocco. His ministry was what we’d call a “tent-maker” type today, a phrase coined from when the apostle Paul made tents to support himself for a while. Fraser-Smith directed a large farm for which he hired local workers. He was able to have conversations with them about the Lord while working side by side.However, some European countries were now again at war with Germany, and when Italy decided to invade Turkey Charles and Blanche, who now had a young son called Brian, made the decision to return to England as soon as possible.

The pencils reveal their secret compartment and internal items – which were kept hidden from the public under the Official Secrets Act until 1975. CHARLES FRASER-SMITH: He said he was impressed by my initiative and inventiveness, and he was looking for someone with those qualities to work in his department. Initially he supplied clothing and related props to for SOE agents, but this expanded to include ingenious devices such as hairbrushes with hidden compartments containing maps, cigarette lighters containing miniature cameras, and steel shoelaces that doubled as garrottes. NARRATOR: Diamonds are Forever. Bond goes undercover with a shadowy, all-powerful American organized crime group called the... well it doesn’t really matter. The point is that the group uses hollow golf balls to smuggle diamonds.In April 1943, the body was dropped into the sea from a Royal Navy submarine and then floated towards the coast of Spain, where it was spotted by a sardine fisherman and the series of events was set in train. Charles Fraser Smith was not alone in his efforts to thwart the enemy with imaginative gadgets and gizmos during the war. Just as Major Jasper Maskelyne, a stage magician; was said to have helped the war effort in El Alemein with his talent for camouflage, Christopher Clayton Hutton was an intelligence officer working for MI9, who helped design and supply escape kits for Prisoners of War. CHARLES FRASER-SMITH: Chemical firelighters, chocolate, bandages, map, compass, miniature saw, benzedrine tablets.