Sir William S. Stephenson -- Winnipeg MB
N 49° 53.266 W 097° 08.952
14U E 632946 N 5527795
"The Man Called Intrepid" is remembered with a statue on Winnipeg's deeply moving Memorial Park.
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Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date Posted: 01/13/2014
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Sir William Stephenson, "The man called Intrepid" was a Canadian soldier in WWI who later became the British spymaster for the western hemisphere during WWII. He is said to be the real-life inspiration for Ian Fleming's fictional super-spy James Bond. After the war he became a billionaire industrialist. He was a favorite of Winston Churchill.
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"Sir William Samuel Stephenson, KBE, CC, MC, DFC (23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989) was a Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of British intelligence for the entire western hemisphere during World War II. He is best known by his wartime intelligence codename Intrepid. Many people consider him to be one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond.[2] Ian Fleming himself once wrote, "James Bond is a highly romanticized version of a true spy. The real thing is ... William Stephenson."
As head of the British Security Coordination, Stephenson handed over British scientific secrets to Franklin D. Roosevelt and relayed American secrets to Winston Churchill.[4] In addition, Stephenson has been credited with changing American public opinion from an isolationist stance to a supportive tendency regarding America's entry into World War II."
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The statue is made of bronze and stands in a granite pedestal. Sir Stephenson is dressed as a WWI-era airman, holding his fight book. The pedestal is inscribed:
"Sir William S. Stephenson
1897-1989
The man called INTREPID"