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In 1952, a former journalist and naval intelligence officer began writing a novel about a British Secret Service agent named James Bond. The writer was Ian Fleming, and the novel was Casino Royale. Several more books followed, including Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, and From Russia With Love. Nearly a decade after Fleming began writing Bond, film producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman purchased the rights to adapt his sixth Bond story, Dr. No, for the big screen. An almost unknown Scottish actor by the name of Sean Connery was selected to play the dashing spy. And the rest, as they say, is film history.