Talk interview with Ian Fleming, a 53-year-old Scot, whose 9 Secret Service thrillers have had phenomenal sales in this country & abroad (more than 1,100,000 hardcover copies & 3,500,000 paperbacks). He wrote the first James Bond thriller in 1953. One of the bibles of his youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, an ornithologist, & when looking for a dull name for his protagonist he remembered this as the dullest of names. A graduate of Eton & Sandhurst, Ian Fleming went to Universities of Geneva & Munich. In 1929 he became a foreign correspondent for Reuters. He stayed with Reuters for 4 years spending some time in Moxcow. He spent 6 years in the banking & stock-brokerage business--1st with Cull & Co. & then with Rowe & Pitman. During the war he was the personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. He emerged a naval commander. After the war he joined the editorial board of the London Times. He still writes for it, & he is a stockholder. He believes that the reason for his success with the James Bond thrillers is that the people are lacking in heroes in real live today.