This is a rough suggested treatment for a James Bond film.

It is the story of an attempt by the Mafia to blackmail the West for £100 million using as a lever an automatic warhead stolen from one of Britain's rocket sites. The target is a new "Cape Canaveral" build on the GRand Bahamas.

The scene is in England, the English Channel and Nassau.

My concern has been only to stitch together a more or less plausible narrative based on this plot and to make it as fast-moving and packed with incidents as possible. To my mind the chief weakness in the treatment is the thinness of the Mafia threat and this must be considerably strengthened, perhaps by more attention to the Mafia meeting in London.

There are other weaknesses which would need to be tightened up here and there bit it seems to me that the main thread of the story stands up fairly well.

I am badly in need of good Italian names for the Mafia gangsters and these could perhaps be obtained from the Venice telephone directory!

In order to keep the feet of this film firmly on the ground, production will have to be particularly brisk so as not to allow the audience time to worry about probabilities. Production will also have to be particularly strong in portraying the Secret Service and the Mafia. Any suspicion of cardboard must be avoided and the acting throughout should be under-played and without exaggeration.

There are no very expensive props except and American helicopter and an American submarine and these could probably be obtained without much difficulty.

More subsidiary incidents should be added where there is any sign of the pace flagging but, for the time being, my invention has run out.

I saw George Raft the other day in a film and he is as good as ever. He might be useful. Ernest Cuneo should definitely be used as the Cap Mafiosi who comes to London to set up the spiel.

No other suggestions for the moment.