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'''John Collard''' was a British solicitor and former [[MI5]] operative who went on to become an agent of the [[International Diamond Security Organisation]] (IDSO).<ref>''[https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/john-collard.2723/ "John Collard"]''</ref>
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'''John Collard''' was a British solicitor and former [[MI5]] operative who went on to become an agent of the [[International Diamond Security Organisation]] ([[IDSO]]) which was set up to tackle diamond smuggling, using ambushes, [[death squads]] and [[torture]].<ref>''[https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/john-collard.2723/ "John Collard"]''</ref>
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Using the alias "John Blaize", Collard contacted [[Ian Fleming]] and met him in [[Morocco]] to reveal how [[IDSO]] had infiltrated and toppled the “million-carat network”―the world’s most notorious diamond smuggling ring.
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The result of their conversations was a series of newspaper articles about the "million carat network", a book, "The Diamond Smugglers", and the [[James Bond]] novel "Diamonds are Forever" (1956).<ref>''[https://www.hickorystickbookshop.com/book/9780063299108 "The Diamond Smugglers: The True Story of an International Crime Ring and Its Downfall, Told by the Creator of James Bond"]''</ref>
  
 
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Latest revision as of 15:58, 18 August 2024

Person.png John CollardRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(solicitor, spook)
John Collard.jpg
BornJohn Ambrose Collard
1 January 1913
Whitechapel, London
Died23 July 2002 (Age 89)
Rye, Sussex
Alma materKeble College (Oxford)

Employment.png Head of MI11

In office
1942 - 1945

Employment.png Intelligence Officer

In office
1946 - 1952
EmployerMI5

Employment.png Agent

In office
1953 - 1957
EmployerIDSO

John Collard was a British solicitor and former MI5 operative who went on to become an agent of the International Diamond Security Organisation (IDSO) which was set up to tackle diamond smuggling, using ambushes, death squads and torture.[1]

Using the alias "John Blaize", Collard contacted Ian Fleming and met him in Morocco to reveal how IDSO had infiltrated and toppled the “million-carat network”―the world’s most notorious diamond smuggling ring.

The result of their conversations was a series of newspaper articles about the "million carat network", a book, "The Diamond Smugglers", and the James Bond novel "Diamonds are Forever" (1956).[2]


 

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Document:De Beers to abandon cartelArticle30 May 2000Dan AtkinsonDe Beers hit a high point in profit terms in the boom year 1989-90, but the following decade was to cost its shareholders billions of dollars. The break-up of the Soviet Union brought a flood of illicit diamonds on to the market, as did the civil war in Angola. In abandoning the CSO diamond cartel, Managing Director Gary Ralfe hopes to use De Beers' dominant position to persuade everyone in the industry to spend much more on marketing.
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