 The home was built on a cliff overlooking a private beach and was based on a sketch by the author and featured unglazed windows.In spite of its obvious proximity to Golden Clouds, Fleming claimed a number of origins for the name Goldeneye, including Carson McCullers's 1941 novel, "Reflections in a Golden Eye" and Operation Goldeneye, a Second World War era contingency plan Fleming had developed in case of a Nazi invasion of Gibraltar through Spain.Fleming joined "The Sunday Times" in 1946, for which he oversaw the paper's worldwide network of correspondents.