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Our Man in Havana
''Our Man In Havana'' (1958) is a novel set in Cuba by the British author Graham Greene. He makes fun of intelligence services, especially the British MI6, and their willingness to believe reports from their local informants. The book predates the Cuban Missile Crisis, but certain aspects of the plot, notably the role of missile installations, appear to anticipate the events of 1962.
It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1959, directed by Carol Reed and starring Alec Guinness; in 1963 it was adapted into an opera by Malcolm Williamson, to a libretto by Sidney Gilliat, who had worked on the film. In 2007, it was adapted into a play by Clive Francis.
== Background ==
Greene joined MI6 in August 1941.〔Christopher Hawtree. ("A Muse on the tides of history: Elisabeth Dennys" ). ''The Guardian'', 10 February 1999. Retrieved 16 April 2011.〕 In London, Greene had been appointed to the subsection dealing with counter-espionage in the Iberian peninsula, where he had learned about German agents in Portugal sending the Germans fictitious reports which garnered them expenses and bonuses to add to their basic salary.〔(Peter Hulme, University of Essex: ''Graham Greene And Cuba: Our Man in Havana?'' An analysis ) Retrieved 31 August 2011〕 One of these agents was "Garbo", a Spanish double agent in Lisbon, who gave his German handlers disinformation, by pretending to control a ring of agents all over England. In fact he invented armed forces movements and operations from maps, guides and standard military references. Garbo was the main inspiration for Wormold, the protagonist of ''Our Man In Havana''.〔Smyth, Denis, “Our Man in Havana, Their Man in Madrid: Literary Invention in Espionage Fact and Fiction,” Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence (Wesley K. Wark, ed.), London: Frank Cass, 1991, pp. 117–135.〕
Remembering the German agents in Portugal, Greene wrote the first version of the story in 1946, as an outline for a film script, with the story set in Estonia in 1938. The film was never made, and Greene soon realised that Havana – which he had visited several times in the early 1950s – would be a much better setting, the absurdities of the Cold War being more appropriate for a comedy.〔
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