The Prisoner was Real

[NapoleonXIV]

New archives from the KGB have come to light. In 1946 Ian Fleming and Aleister Crowley proposed the Village, a pleasant place, almost a resort, where captured and suspect spies could be taken before or as a part of their 'retirement'. Never let to find out who their captors really were they would be subjected to tests of loyalty, tricks, deceptions, the latest mind control and a host of head games to extract all they knew before final disposal. Kim Philby exposed the idea to the Russians in 1950, threatening to turn it public if the West didn't open it to Russian spies and their captives as well. It functioned until 1975, when both sides closed its final location and it remains on a remote and deserted island in Puget Sound

The TV show, of course never existed, Patrick MacGoohan became the first James Bond and never had time to develop any television series after that.

Would this cause a scandal now, or would anyone care?

[Count Dearborn]

A few years after they closed the Village; the Colony, an island in the Caribbean was opened; and the Resort, on an island in the Med, was opened. The Colony is a retirement village, and the Resort is a thinktank.