bumby. he's hemingway's first born and that's what you see here. you see him in paris with hemingway in 1925. grows up in france, learns french pretty well. learns his way around the french countryside. by the time of world war ii, he's taller than his dad. here you see him with ernest and h his half brothers and he's draft age. he's in and out of college at the beginning of the war and eventually joins the army. no special treatment. he becomes an mp officer. it's probably not something that he would have picked, and he certainly would not have picked the mp battalion in which he wound up which was a battalion of black mps. i don't think he was particularly racist, but this was not a coveted assignment. anyway, he made the best of this. he went off to north africa with this group. it was mostly rear echelon work, so you're enforcing regulations, handing out speeding tickets, arresting people selling black market goods, that sort of thing, and bumby gets kind of antsy doing this kind of work. he figures there's has to be more to war than enforcing

so bumby does a pretty good job with this. he fits in well and makes a comfortable and another remming -- and a jrma know patrol comes by. he's wearing sort of a nondiscrypt insignia uniform, the american flag in one shoulder. lucky for him the germans walking by see the other shoulder and that i say something in german, probably not complimentary and laugh and walk on. bumby's luck does run ought in he's in a fire fight, severely wound him. they don't realize he's a hemingway. he runs into the boyfriend of the former manny from the period he was going up with sxem separated, 19 lib and ges evaluated, at least at that time he he is making decisions about onward a sewnments and bumby says i want to go to asia. the war is still going there. let me have a crack at the japanese and oss says okay. we'll get you ready for that. the evaluation officer writes that john hemingway has been through a lot. he's acquitted himself well and he's quite mature for his age. he has good social skills. so he's under 25. he's not that old. he's a

bumby. he is hemmingway's firstborn. he grows newspaper france and learns french pretty well, learns his way around the french countryside. here you can see him with earnest and his half-brothers and he is draft age. he's in and out of college at the beginning of the war and then eventually joins the army. no special treatment. he becomes an mp officer. he certainly would not have picked the mp ba tal general in which he wound up which was a ba tal general of black mp. he was not particularly racist. this was not a coveted assignment. any way, he made the best of this. he went off to north africa with this group. it was mostly enforcing regulations, handing out speeding particular kits, arresting people and that sort of thing and bumby gets kind of antsy doing this kind of work. he gets invited to a party, a highly social event in north africa and randolph churchill, winston's son, he was a handful. he fought with him on a lot of occasions and had successfully worked his way into british special opps. he wasn't ordered.

bumby also -- bumby was a guy -- everyone that lives in ernest's shadow and especially his sons and little brother, bumby has trouble finding himself in life. he's in and out of the army. he serves in uniform for a number of years and tries various career, stockbroker, professional fishermen, whatnot. what he does do, marries a wonderful woman and they have two daughters, margo and mariette hemingway. one of them sadly commits suicide. ernest's brother lester also commits suicide. so it's, you know, it's again a sad family history that comes out. any -- can i ask you a question. anybody else have ideas why ernest would sign up with the kgb? is that stunning to you? is that -- you know, what would you do? how wow break it down. >> yes, sir. >> he said he was imagining things, an adventure -- the question was did he imagine he could be a double or triple agent? that would be a great adventure. i have thought of that and it's possible. you know, it's an intriguing -- it's an intriguing theory. if i could find that ernest had tried to work his way into placing where he would get better access,

he talks with oss about a possible mission to liberate bumby, wiser heads prevail. it's not attempted. it probably would have been disastrous. after the battle of the bulge, ernest goes home and resumes his life now without martha. in cuba and here he is arriving home on a pan am airplane. so that's not the end of the

around this time bumby, his luck ran out in the fall of 1944. he was captured. he talks with oss about a possible mission to liberate bumby. wiser heads prevail. it was not attempted. it would have been disastrous. after the battle of the bulge, ernest goes home and resumes his life now without martha in cuba. here he is riding home on a pan am airplane. so that's not the end of the story. there's been another window open all the time. there was a reason i said this was the end of ernest's relationship with american intelligence in world war ii. he had a relationship with another intelligence organization starting in 1941 and that was the kgb.

around this time, bumby, his luck ran out in the fall of 1944. he was captured. he talks with oss about a possible mission to liberate bumby. wiser heads prevail. it's not attempted. it probably would have been disastrous. after the battle of the bulge, he goes home without martha and here he is arriving home on the pan am airplane. that's not the end of the story. there's been another window open the whole time. there's a reason i said this was the end of ernest's relationship with american intelligence in world war ii. he had a relationship with another intelligence organization, starting in 1941, and that was the kgb. according to transcripts of kgb files that have been published by yale university press in 2009, ernest was pitched in early 1941, probably in new york city, probably in january, by a man named jacob golos, and he wrote back to moscow that he had recruited ernest hemingway as a soviet spy, and that ernest had agreed to cooperate for ideological reasons. he added that ernest had accepted contact instructions for the next clandestine meeting. as fa

bumby has trouble finding himself in life. he's in and out of the army. he serves for -- in uniform for a number of years. then he tries various careers. stockbroker, professional fisherman, whatnot. what he does do, he marries a wonderful woman and they have two daughters, margo and mariel hemmingway. one of them sadly commits suicide. ernest's brother, lester, also commits suicide. you know, it's -- again, it's a sad family history that comes out. can i ask you all a question? anybody else got any ideas of why ernest would sign up with the kgb? does that -- is that stunning to you? you know, what would you -- how would you break it down? yes, sir? >> the question was, did he imagine he could be a double or triple agent, that would be a great adventure. i've thought of that. it's possible. that's an intriguing -- it's an intriguing theory. if i could find that ernest had tried to work his way into places where he would get better access, you know, it's something worth pursuing. there's still a lot out there. it's a great story that hasn't totally been to

he loved what bumby did in the oss, but he was critical of anybody -- even in the oss which is the haven of free thinkers in the american war rt conventional buc government behs just drives ernest crazy and he yeah, there were some great people in oss, but there was also a lot of chicken dot dot dot. in oss. so ernest ha an official relationship with oss at this point. but he does go to europe. martha finally -- her argument carries the day. off they go to -- they both go off to europe. martha's been the correspondent for collier's. ernest arranges for himself to be collier's which is a demotion for martha. he gets a seat on t atlantic, a in touch with martha and says i asked them, but they won't take women. i'm sorry. you can't come on the plane. i'll fly over and meet you there. i have arranged passage for you. the passage that martha got was on an ammunition ship crossing the atlantic. anyway, they both make it to london by may 1944. d-day remember is coming up in june 1944. there, ernest hangs out with a lot of journalists, soldiers, writers, socialites. meets pamela churchill who is