By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 19:57 EST, 17 July 2013 | UPDATED: 20:28 EST, 17 July 2013 CIA bosses copied gadget ideas from James Bond books and films for its own secret agents in the Fifties and Sixties, new research has revealed. In return, the boss of the American secret service may have persuaded author Ian Fleming not to pension off his most famous creation at the height of his popularity. U.S. spy chiefs developed their own version of two Bond devices it had seen, one used by 007 in Goldfinger, the other used by one of his enemies in From Russia With Love.
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CIA chief Allen Dulles and Ian Fleming regularly wrote to each other
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The U.S. spy agency copied at least two of Bond's gadgets, it's emerged
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One was the tracking device 007 uses in to trace Goldfinger's lair
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The other was the flick-knife shoes seen in From Russia With Love
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