I wonder if any Cbn members caught this rather odd story in The Guardian yesterday?
http://www.theguardi...ked-ian-fleming
You might imagine that in the 1960s, the FBI had enough on its plate, but it still found the time to look into the filming of "Goldfinger", and the portrayal in it of its members.
(You may have noticed, by the way, that no FBI personnel were portrayed in Goldfinger, but that didn't stop J. Edgar Hoover getting worked up about it!)
FBI files released recently show a rather curious interest in the film and concerns about the way the FBI would appear in it. The Bureau had agents doing background checks on Ian Fleming, producer Harry Saltzman and screenwriter Richard Maibaum, and agents were told to "vigorously protest any mention of FBI or portrayal of its agents in his proposed movie." The Bureau even wanted to prevent the use of the initials "FBI" in the film, threatening the producers with a federal law prohibiting such use.
The article ends on a laugh, I think, with another memo describing the plot thusly; "Saltzman stated that the movie concerns a plan to rob Fort Knox, which robbery is solved by the FBI". Eh???