Career
He was the inspiration for the fictional character Dikko Henderson in Ian Fleming"s James Bond novel You Only Live Twice, and for "Old Craw" in John le Carré"s The Honourable Schoolboy. Hughes was born on 5 March 1906 at Prahran, Melbourne, Australia. He later worked within the Frank Packer organisation.
Hughes was a war correspondent in the North African campaign of World World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars.
After World World War II he worked first from Japan and then from Hong Kong where in addition to his journalistic work he was generally considered to be a British spy and by some to be a double agent. He died in Hong Kong in January 1984 of kidney and liver diseases.