This summer, Intelligence Online invites readers to explore the legendary sites of the French Riviera and follow in the footsteps of Britain's most famous fictitious spy: 007. Here we meet fake spies, and real oligarchs...
In the opening scenes of the film Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Sean Connery's James Bond is on the hunt for his sworn enemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, head of the SPECTRE criminal organisation, who had his wife murdered just minutes after their wedding. On his trail, the famous secret agent travels across the world and lands in Cairo, where, after practising