Goldeneye was the name given by Ian Fleming to his house in Jamaica. Ian Lancaster Fleming ( May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, Journalist and Second World War Fleming claimed a number of origins for the name of the estate including Carson McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye and Operation Goldeneye, a contingency plan Fleming himself developed during World War II in case of a Nazi invasion through Spain. Carson McCullers ( February 19, 1917 &ndash September 29, 1967) was an American Writer. Operation Goldeneye was an Allied plan during World War II, that monitored Spain after the Spanish Civil War.