5 March 2013 Last updated at 12:34 ET

Ian Fleming's secret memo

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Embossed emblem of Admiralty paper

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MOST SECRET – British equivalent of the American term “top secret”

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A.D.I.C – Assistant Director (Operational) Intelligence Centre

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D.D.N.I – Deputy Director Naval Intelligence

D.N.I - Director Naval Intelligence - John Henry Godfrey, Fleming’s boss and said to be inspiration for M in the 007 stories

F – Ian Fleming, author of the document

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N.I.D – Naval Intelligence Division

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C.C.O – Chief of Combined Operations – Lord Mountbatten, Admiral of the Fleet

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R.D.F gear – radio direction finding gear, used to determine where a radio signal is coming from

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Operation “SLEDGEHAMMER” – plan for US troops to land at Brest or Cherbourg in France, later cancelled. But the idea evolved and Fleming’s proposed unit of commandos first deployed in Operation JUBILEE, the Dieppe raid of 19 August 1942 (operation names were always written in capitals)

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F, N.I.D (17) – Ian Fleming’s codename, signed in pencil, of Naval Intelligence Division, dated 20 March 1942

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Pencil note signed JHG - John Godfrey. It reads: Yes, most decidedly but we won’t “submit” [he draws arrow to (ii)] The principle be worked out in detail in collaboration with C.C.O. [Chief of Combined Operations]. He thinks the idea so good, he wants his team to keep hold of it, says historian Nick Rankin

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