Camp X Camp X was the unofficial name of a Second World War paramilitary and commando training installation , on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario between Whitby and Oshawa in Ontario , Canada . The area is known today as Intrepid Park , after the code name for Sir William Stephenson of the British Security Coordination . Overview . Camp X was established December 6 , 1941 by the chief of British Security Coordination ( BSC ) , Sir William Stephenson , a Canadian from Winnipeg , Manitoba , and a close confidante of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt . The camp was originally designed to link Britain and the United States at a time when the US was forbidden by the Neutrality Act to be directly involved in World War II . Before the attack on Pearl Harbor and America ' s entry into the war , Camp X opened for the purpose of training Allied agents from the Special Operations Executive , Federal Bureau of Investigation , and American Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) intended to be dropped behind enemy lines as saboteurs and spies . However , even before the United States entered the war on December 7 , 1941 , agents from America ' s intelligence services expressed an interest in sending personnel for training at the soon to be opened Camp X . Agents from the FBI and the Office of Strategic Services ( forerunner of the CIA ) secretly attended Camp X . Most notable was Colonel William " Wild Bill " Donovan , war - time head of the OSS , who credited Sir William Stephenson with teaching Americans about foreign intelligence gathering . The CIA even named their recruit training facility " The Farm " , a nod to the original farm that existed at the Camp X site . Camp X was jointly operated by the BSC and the Government of Canada . The official names of the camp were many : S 25 - 1 - 1 by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) , Project - J by the Canadian military , and Special Training School 103 by the Special Operations Executive , administered under the cover of the Ministry of Economic Warfare ( MEW ) . Camp X trained over five hundred Allied units , of which 273 graduated and moved on to London for further training . Many secret agents were trained here . The Camp X pupils were schooled in a wide variety of special techniques including silent killing , sabotage , partisan support and recruitment methods for resistance movements , demolition , map reading , use of various weapons , and Morse code . It was at Camp X that the OSS operated an " assassination and elimination " training program that was dubbed " the school of mayhem and murder " by George Hunter White , who trained at the facility in the 1950s . Hydra . One of the unique features of Camp X was Hydra , a highly sophisticated telecommunications centre . Given the name by the Camp X operators , Hydra was invaluable for both coding and decoding information in relative safety from the prying ears of German radio observers . The camp was an excellent location for the safe transfer of code due to the topography of the land ; Lake Ontario made it an excellent site for picking up radio signals from the United Kingdom . Hydra also had direct access via land lines to Ottawa , New York and Washington , D . C . for telegraph and telephone communications . The transmitter was previously used as that of American AM station WCAU ' s shortwave sibling W3XAU , and upon severance of W3XAU in 1941 , the transmitter was refurbished and became the transmitter for Hydra . The transmitter was scrapped in 1969 . Postwar . Trainees included Ian Fleming , later famous for his James Bond books , though there is evidence against this claim . The character of James Bond was supposedly based on Sir William Stephenson and what Fleming learned from him . Children ' s writer Roald Dahl and British screenwriter Paul Dehn also trained at the camp . In the fall of 1945 Camp X was used by the RCMP as a secure location for interviewing Soviet embassy cypher - clerk Igor Gouzenko , who defected to Canada on September 5 and revealed an extensive Soviet espionage operation in the country . Post - war , the camp was renamed the Oshawa Wireless Station and was turned over to the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals as a wireless intercept station , in essence a spy listening station . The Oshawa Wireless Station ceased operations in 1969 . All remaining buildings were demolished or relocated elsewhere and the property abandoned . Records pertaining to Camp X were either locked away under the Official Secrets Act or destroyed after World War II . Nothing significant remains of Camp X today , as all the remaining buildings were bulldozed into Lake Ontario in 1969 when the camp was decommissioned , although several craters from explosives training are still visible . The site , located on Boundary Road in Whitby , Ontario , is now a passive park named " Intrepid Park " . A monument was erected in 1984 to honour the men and women of Camp X , which many in the intelligence world consider to be the finest espionage training camp of the Second World War . The monument is surrounded by four flags : the Bermuda flag ( where Stephenson died ) , the flag of the United States , the British Union Flag , and the current flag of Canada . Today it is the site of annual Remembrance Day ceremonies hosted by 2 Intelligence Company , a military intelligence unit based in Toronto , Ontario . Lynn Philip Hodgson , author of " Dispatches from Camp - X " , provides annual walking tours of the camps original site .