Who wrote the book the Ipcress File?
"frontman, Lemmy, dedicated the band's third album ""Bomber"" to Len Deighton. Other major fiction works include ""Winter"" and ""Goodbye, Mickey Mouse"". He reportedly began an unfinished Vietnam War novel, a portion of which appeared as the story ""First Base"" in his short story collection ""Declarations of War"". Deighton also wrote a series of cookery books, and wrote and drew a weekly strip cartoon-style illustrated cooking guide in ""The Observer"" newspaper – Len Deighton's Action Cook Book. At least one of the strips is pinned up in Deighton's spy hero's kitchen in the 1965 film of his novel ""The IPCRESS File""."
"Sidney J. Furie Sidney Joseph Furie (born February 28, 1933) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work in both British and American cinema between the 1960s and early 1980s. Like his contemporaries Norman Jewison and Ted Kotcheff, he was one of earliest Canadian directors to achieve mainstream critical and financial success outside their native country at a time when its film industry was virtually nonexistent. He won a BAFTA Film Award and was nominated for a Palme d'Or for his work on the acclaimed spy thriller ""The Ipcress File"" starring Michael Caine. He"
"Len Deighton Leonard Cyril Deighton (; born 18 February 1929), known as Len Deighton, is a British author. Deighton is considered one of the top three spy novelists of his time (along with Ian Fleming and John le Carré). In addition he is a highly acclaimed military historian, cookery writer, and graphic artist. ""The IPCRESS File"" (1962), his first novel, was an instant bestseller and broke the mould of thriller writing. ""The Sunday Times"" called him ""the poet of the spy story"". Deighton’s first protagonist – a nameless spy christened Harry Palmer in the films – was made famous worldwide"
"as a classic. ""The Ipcress File"" is included on the British Film Institute's BFI 100, a list of 100 of the best British films of the 20th century, at No. 59, and currently holds an approval rating of 100% at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 26 reviews with an average rating of 7.8/10. The film won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film, and Ken Adam won the award for 'Best British Art Direction, Colour'. Screenwriters Bill Canaway and James Doran received a 1966 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Foreign Film Screenplay. The protagonist of Deighton's"
"a screenplay from Australian writer Jon Cleary, who finished a script in October 1964 that remained faithful in spirit to Fleming's book while also featuring elements familiar from the James Bond films. Kingsley Amis was also hired as a story consultant; in a letter to author Theo Richmond on 20 December 1965 Amis wrote he was having 'a horrible time' of writing an outline for Willoughby. W.H. ""Bill"" Canaway, co-author of the screenplay for The Ipcress File, was also hired to work on the script. At one point, film director John Boorman was involved. Despite interest from Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors"
"is told that this is what he is paid for. ""The Ipcress File"" was an ironic and downbeat alternative to the portrayal of espionage in Ian Fleming's novels about the spy James Bond and the film series which followed from them. Harry Saltzman, who produced this film, was one of the producers of the early Bond films. Among other crew members who worked on ""The Ipcress File"" and had also worked on the Bond films up to this point were the production designer Ken Adam, the film editor Peter Hunt and the film score composer John Barry. ""The Ipcress File"""
"more sophisticated mental tricks in his television programmes, ""Derren Brown: Mind Control"". The late Russian psychic, Wolf Messing, was said to be able to hand somebody a blank piece of paper and make them see money or whatever he wanted them to see. Mind control in popular culture Mind control has proven a popular subject in fiction, featuring in books and films such as ""The Manchurian Candidate"" (1959; film adaptation 1962) and ""The IPCRESS File"" (1962; film 1965), both stories advancing the premise that controllers could hypnotize a person into murdering on command while retaining no memory of the killing."
"been theorised that the protagonist in another of Deighton's spy novels, ""An Expensive Place to Die"" (1967), also written in the first-person-anonymous narrative, is also 'Harry Palmer'; however, differences in characterisation and plotting indicate this is someone else other than Palmer. ""The IPCRESS File"" novel came out just after the release of the first James Bond film ""Dr. No"" (1962). When the novel reached best-seller status, Eon producers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli approached Deighton to write the script for the second Bond film, ""From Russia With Love"" (1963). Little of Deighton's screenplay was actually used on the shoot. Saltzman"
"Frances Cress Welsing Frances Luella Welsing (née Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, ""The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)"", offered her interpretation on the origins of what she described as white supremacy culture. She was the author of ""The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors"" (1991). Welsing caused controversy after she said that homosexuality among African-Americans was a ploy by white males to decrease the black population. Welsing was born Frances Luella Cress in Chicago on March 18, 1935. Her father, Dr. Henry N. Cress, was"
"Deighton's mother cooked for Wolkoff's dinner parties and he said that he ""vividly"" remembered when British MI5 agents came to arrest her: ""The experience was a major factor in my decision to write a spy story at my first attempt at fiction."" The plot involves mind control, the acronym IPCRESS of the title standing for ""Induction of Psycho-neuroses by Conditioned Reflex under Stress"". The brainwashing is similar to a shock technique called psychic driving pioneered by Donald Ewen Cameron in the 1950s, originally on unwitting mental hospital patients, which was used and funded by the Central Intelligence Agency's secret MKULTRA"
"Henry Spencer Ashbee Henry Spencer Ashbee (21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900) was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer. He is notable for his massive, clandestine three-volume bibliography of erotic literature published under the pseudonym of Pisanus Fraxi. Ashbee was born in Southwark, London. He was by occupation a textile trader, the senior partner in the London branch of the firm of Charles Lavy & Co. He travelled extensively during his life, including Europe, Japan, and San Francisco, collaborating with the American politician Alexander Graham on ""Travels in Tunisia"", published in 1887. Ashbee married Elisabeth Lavy in Hamburg, Germany"
"Security, Subversive Control, Espionage, and Employees Security Sections in view of mention in the book of substantive cases pertaining to those sections. Sullivan noted, ""There is no identifiable derogatory information regarding Iversen in Bureau files."" Iversen married Mary Drake; they had two sons. Iversen died age 68 on September 28, 1988, of stomach cancer at his home in Syracuse, New York. Iversen's principal work, ""The Communists and the Schools"" formed part of a Fund for the Republic series on ""Communism in American Life"". Clinton Rossiter oversaw the series, which also included ""The Roots of American Communism"" by Theodore Draper (1957)."
"a taped memoir online, uploaded by Churchill College. Cross is depicted as a character in the novels ""The Revolution Script"" by Brian Moore and ""My October"" by Claire Holden Rothman. His kidnapping is also the basis for Edo van Belkom's short story ""The October Crisis"". James Cross James Richard Cross, CMG (born 29 September 1921) is an Irish-born British former diplomat in Canada who was kidnapped by Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) militants during the October Crisis of October 1970. Born in Ireland in Negah, part of the Irish state and known by his friends as ""Jasper"", during World"
"Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth, (born 25 August 1938) is an English author, journalist for the Daily Express, spy, and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as ""The Day of the Jackal"", ""The Odessa File"", ""The Fourth Protocol"", ""The Dogs of War"", ""The Devil's Alternative"", ""The Fist of God"", ""Icon"", ""The Veteran"", ""Avenger"", ""The Afghan"", ""The Cobra"" and ""The Kill List"". Forsyth's works frequently appear on best-sellers lists and more than a dozen of his titles have been adapted to film. He has sold more than 70 million books in total. The son of a furrier,"
"(1978) about British support for the apartheid National Party government of South Africa, against the Red Menace. Other novelists followed a similar path. Len Deighton's anonymous spy, protagonist of ""The IPCRESS File"" (1962), ""Horse Under Water"" (1963), ""Funeral in Berlin"" (1964), and others, is a working-class man with a negative view of the Establishment. Other notable examples of espionage fiction during this period were also built around recurring characters. These include James Mitchell's 'John Craig' series, written under his pseudonym 'James Munro', beginning with ""The Man Who Sold Death"" (1964); and Trevor Dudley-Smith's Quiller spy novel series written under the"
"and no menace."" Bell said that ""evasive indirection has been Deighton's trademark since his first spy novel, The Ipcress File, appeared in 1963. At the time, his obsessive reliance on the blurred and intangible, on loaded pauses and mysteriously disjointed dialogue, did convey the shadowy meanness of the spy's world, with its elusive loyalties, camouflaged identities and weary brutality. But Deighton's later efforts have bloated these cryptic and inscrutable mannerisms into a dense fog of unknowing."" A film adaptation starring Michael Petrovitch as Pat Armstrong was released in 1976, directed by Lindsay Shonteff. Spy Story (novel) Spy Story is a"
"listed above are not fictional novels or novellas: ""The Biafra Story"" (1969), ""Emeka"" (1982), ""Great Flying Stories"" (1991) and ""The Outsider"" (2015). As writer only (except for ""Soldiers"", as presenter) Forsyth wrote lyrics to a lament titled ""Fallen Soldier"", with music by Gareth Ellis Williams, which was released as a single by Royal Opera House soprano Melissa Adler in 2016. Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth, (born 25 August 1938) is an English author, journalist for the Daily Express, spy, and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as ""The Day of the Jackal"", ""The Odessa File"", ""The"
"Minister of Defence, thus making the novel itself the 'IPCRESS File' of the title. The events begin soon after his transfer from military intelligence to WOOC(P), a small civilian intelligence agency reporting directly to the British Cabinet, where he works under the command of a man named Dalby. An intelligence broker code-named ""Jay"" is suspected to be behind a series of kidnappings of highly placed and influential British VIPs with the intention of selling them to the Soviets, and the protagonist is assigned to meet with Jay to secure the release of ""Raven"", a high-ranking scientist and his latest target."
"Eustace Mullins Eustace Clarence Mullins Jr. (March 9, 1923 – February 2, 2010) was an antisemitic American writer, propagandist, Holocaust denier, and disciple of the poet Ezra Pound. His best-known book is ""The Secrets of The Federal Reserve"", in which he alleged that several high-profile bankers had conspired to write the Federal Reserve Act for their own nefarious purposes, and then induced Congress to enact it into law. David Randall called Mullins ""one of the world's leading conspiracy theorists."" The Southern Poverty Law Center described him as ""a one-man organization of hate"". Eustace Clarence Mullins, Jr. was born in Roanoke,"
"The protagonist reveals to Jean that Jay and Dalby were using a process called ""Induction of Psycho-neuroses by Conditioned REflex with Stress"" (IPCRESS) to brainwash the VIPs into loyalty to the Soviet Union, which they had also unsuccessfully attempted to subject the protagonist to. The seemingly irrelevant links that Carswell had discovered were in fact indicators of the personality traits that Jay had used to determine which VIPs would easily succumb to the process. Dalby was the one who had sabotaged the American bomb test, as part of Jay and Dalby's efforts to frame the protagonist. Colonel Ross reveals that"
"The Icarus Agenda The Icarus Agenda is a 1988 thriller novel by bestselling author Robert Ludlum. It is the sequel to ""The Chancellor Manuscript"". Evan Kendrick is a U.S. Congressman from a remote Western Colorado district. As a former building contractor in the Middle East, he is close friends with the Sultan of Oman. He returns to Oman under deep cover when the U.S. Embassy in Masqat is taken by terrorists. During his time undercover he unmasks a far-reaching terror network aimed at controlling the economies and governments of the Middle East. A few years before, a tragic ""accident"" left"
"headings have a ""feature"". In ""The IPCRESS File"" these take the form of each chapter being headed with a quote from a horoscope, which relates to the action in the chapter, though vaguely, as in most horoscopes. The front cover, by Deighton's friend Raymond Hawkey, has been described as ""the template for the covers of all subsequent airport novels"". A film adaptation starring Michael Caine was released in 1965 and produced by the James Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman, assisted by several prominent members of the Bond production family. The film medium made it difficult to maintain the anonymity of Deighton's"
"him for financial gain. The newspaper said it examined the materials offered by the sons to support the story and found them to be ""inconclusive."" Phillips wrote and lectured frequently on intelligence matters. He authored five books, including his CIA memoir ""The Night Watch"", ""Careers in Secret Operations: How to Be a Federal Intelligence Officer"", ""The Terror Brigade,"" ""The Carlos Contract,"" and ""The Great Texas Murder Trials: A Compelling Account of the Sensational T. Cullen Davis Case."" Phillips died at his home in Bethesda, Maryland from complications of cancer on July 7, 1988; at the age of 65. In 1948,"
"from him during his imprisonment, and subsequently remarried. The detective who was in charge of the Prime investigation from the police point of view, Detective Chief Inspector D.J. Cole, later and in retirement wrote a book about the case, the book being entitled ""Geoffrey Prime: The Imperfect Spy"". Geoffrey Prime Geoffrey Arthur Prime (born 21 February 1938) is a British former spy, who disclosed information to the Soviet Union while working for the Royal Air Force and later for Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency, responsible for signals intelligence, during the 1960s and 1970s. Prime was convicted in"
"and early 19th century, particularly Wollstonecraft who reviewed Gibbes' work with delight, were inspired in part by this prodigal 18th century author. Phebe Gibbes Phebe Gibbes (died 1805) was an 18th-century English novelist and early feminist. She authored twenty-two books between 1764 and 1790, and is best known for the novels ""The History of Mr. Francis Clive"" (1764), ""The Fruitless Repentance; or, the History of Miss Kitty Le Fever"" (1769), and ""The History of Miss Eliza Musgrove"" (1769). She received recent attention with the scholarly publication of ""Hartly House Calcutta"" (1789) in 2007. Phebe Gibbes possesses one of the most"
"Elspeth Huxley Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an author, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, ""The Flame Trees of Thika"" and ""The Mottled Lizard"", based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley. Nellie and Major Josceline Grant, Elspeth's parents, arrived in Thika in what was then British East Africa in 1912, to start a life as coffee farmers and colonial"
"feminizing Black men is also described by Welsing as bi-sexuality and homosexuality. By December 30, 2015, Welsing suffered two strokes and was placed in critical care at a Washington, D.C.-area hospital. She died on January 2, 2016, at the age of 80. Frances Cress Welsing Frances Luella Welsing (née Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American Afrocentrist psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, ""The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)"", offered her interpretation on the origins of what she described as white supremacy culture. She was the author of ""The Isis Papers: The Keys to the"
"Idries Shah Idries Shah (; , ; 16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي) and by the pen name Arkon Daraul, was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies. Born in India, the descendant of a family of Afghan nobles, Shah grew up mainly in England. His early writings centred on magic and witchcraft. In 1960 he established a publishing house, Octagon Press, producing translations of Sufi classics"
"Mind control in popular culture Mind control has proven a popular subject in fiction, featuring in books and films such as ""The Manchurian Candidate"" (1959; film adaptation 1962) and ""The IPCRESS File"" (1962; film 1965), both stories advancing the premise that controllers could hypnotize a person into murdering on command while retaining no memory of the killing. As a narrative device, mind control serves as a convenient means of introducing changes in the behavior of characters, and is used as a device for raising tension and audience uncertainty in the contexts of the Cold War and terrorism. Mind control has"
"decided instead to use ""The IPCRESS File"" in the expectation of beginning a new secret agent movie series. Unlike the Bond films, ""The IPCRESS File"" was designed to have a somewhat different, mostly rather naturalistic style, with hints of the kitchen sink school, film adaptations of which Saltzman had produced. Saltzman, however, also contracted crew members who had worked on the Bond films, including production designer Ken Adam, film editor Peter Hunt, and film score composer John Barry. Michael Caine was chosen to play the lead role. In the film version, Harry Palmer is a British army sergeant forcibly drafted"
"Gertrude Barrows Bennett Gertrude Barrows Bennett (September 18, 1884 – February 2, 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. Bennett wrote a number of fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called ""the woman who invented dark fantasy"". Her most famous books include ""Claimed"" (which Augustus T. Swift, in a letter to ""The Argosy"" called ""One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read"") and the lost world novel ""The Citadel of Fear"". Bennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, ""The Heads of Cerberus"" (1919)."
"López Michelsen (1974–1978) of Colombia as CIA collaborators or agents. Following this he details how he resigned from the CIA and began writing the book, conducting research in Cuba, London and Paris. During this time he alleged that the CIA spied on him. The cover of the book actually featured an image of the bugged typewriter given to Agee by a CIA agent as part of their surveillance and attempts to stop publication of the book. In 1982, the United States Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act (IIPA), legislation that seemed directly aimed at Agee's works. The law would"
"Bruce Eisner Bruce Jay Ehrlich (February 26, 1948 – January 1, 2013), better known by his pen name Bruce Eisner, was an American writer, psychologist, and counterculture spokesman best known for his book ""Ecstasy: The MDMA Story"". Eisner was born in Brooklyn, New York. At age 2, he moved with his family to the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles where he lived for the next 25 years. His first publication was at age 16, when he won an LA County-wide essay contest. The essay, ""Democracy and What It Means to Me"" was published in the Congressional Record by Congressman"