S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
SMERSH
KGB

The word S.P.E.C.T.R.E. stands for Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. was introduced in the bond films by the character Dr. No who at the time was an agent. Ernst Stavro Blofeld is portrayed as the leader of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. in the James Bond movies. Ernst Stavro Blofeld appears in 6 movies: From Russia With Love, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever and For Your Eyes Only. Whereas the organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is mentioned in only 5:Dr. No, From Russia With Love, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the most reoccurring enemy organization in the James Bond movies.

LEADERS

Dr. Julius No: Dr. Julius No, the child of a German Missionary and a Chinese girl, became a leading S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent following his escape from the Tong society. No, a scientist offered his services to both East and West, but both turned him down, thus, he became a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent. No suffered an "accident" and now has mechanical hands covered by plastic gloves. During the last fight scene Bond knocks him into a reactor pool, which No cannot climb out of because of his plastic gloves, causing him to drown in the reactor pool.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld, No. 1: Ernst Stavro Blofeld, or S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent No. 1, is the leader of the orginization S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Blofeld's identity is unknown in his first two movies for plain reason that his face was not shown, to add suspense. The first time Blofeld is shown in full view is in You Only Live Twice. Blofeld also appears in 3 other movies. Blofeld finally comes to his demise in For Your Eyes Only, when his wheelchair is picked up by the skid of Bond's helicopter and dumped into an industrial smoke stack.

AGENTS

Emilio Largo, No. 2: Emilio Largo, No. 2, is a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent and head of the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. NATO project in which two atomic bombs are hijacked from a NATO airplane. Largo's field operations headquarters is maintained aboard his ship, the Disco Volante. Largo actually carries out the operations himself, in one Bond poses as one of Largo's men in order to find where the missing bombs were located. In the end scene, Bond fights aboard the boat with Largo, who is speared by Domino.

Rosa Klebb, No. 3: Rosa Klebb, No. 3, is a top S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent in the movie From Russia With Love. Klebb was recruited from SMERSH, and ordered to carry out a plan to humiliate Bond and acquire a LEKTOR decoding machine. Klebb recruits 'Red' Grant, and Tanya Romanova to carry out the plot. Once Kronsteen's plan fails, Klebb is called to witness his murder. Once given a second chance, Klebb poses as a maid in a Venitain hotel where Bond and Tanya are staying. Klebb then tries to kill Bond, but is shot by Tanya before she succeeds.

No. 3:

No. 4:

Kronsteen, No. 5:

No. 5:

Colonel Jacques Boiter, No. 6:

Fidelio Sciacca, No. 7:

Pierre Borraud, No. 9:

No. 10:

No. 11:

Helga Brandt, No. 11:

SUB-OPERATIVES

Frau Irma Bunt: Frau Irma Bunt is the personal secretary of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Bunt is the person who greets Bond on his arrival at Piz Gloria, disguised as Sir Hillary Bray from the London College of Arms. And as fate may have it, she was also the one to find Bond out. On his way to see an allergy patient, Irma Bunt found him and thus had him captured. Bunt escaped the attack on Piz Gloria, and is in fact the person who later machine guns Bond's new wife to death.

Morzeny: Morzeny is the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. operations chief in charge of the training facilities on S.P.E.C.T.R.E. island. Morzeny is also when he escorts both Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen to see Blofeld for both instructions to carry out the mission and the murder of Kronsteen. He shows Rosa Klebb around S.P.E.C.T.R.E. island for her to choose an assasin for the mission. In the end, during the motorboat fight scene, Morzeny leads the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. henchmen to try and kill Bond. However, he is killed after his boat is set aflame from a gas spill and Bond's flare gun.

Mr. Osato: Mr. Osato is president of a front for S.P.E.C.T.R.E., which manufactures liquid oxygen (LOX), used to propell the spaceship being used to cause tension between Russia and the U.S. Bond goes to Osato's office and goes through his safe to find some clue that could solve the case. Osato and his men capture Bond and put him under the eye of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent No. 11, Helga Brandt. Osato retreates back to Blofeld's volcano lair for the final part of the plot. However, because he and his henchmen were unable to kill Bond, Blofeld murders for his incompetence.

Donald 'Red' Grant: Donald 'Red' Grant, had been diagnosed as a 'homicidal paranoiac', and was recruited by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. as an assassin. Grant was chosen by Rosa Klebb to carry out the plan devised by Kronsteen, a fellow agent. Grant's mission consisted of killing James bond on the Orient Express and capturing a LEKTOR decoding machine. While being held at gunpoint, Bond makes the best of his time, and gets his chance to kill Grant. During the fight, Grant gets a tear gas cartrage in his face, stabbed with a knife, and then strangled with his own garrotte wire.

Fiona Volpe: Fiona Volpe, a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent, is first seen at the Shrublands health clinic, seducing the NATO aerial observer, Francois Derval. While keeping him occupied, Angelo Palazzi came to his room to kill him and take his place on the NATO bomber. The man responsible for recruiting Palazzi, was assassinated by Volpe because Palazzi was unfaithful to his job. Volpe, later in the mission intimidates Bond, makes love to him in his hotel suite, chases after him during a local Junkanoo celebration, dances with him, and is finally killed accidentally by one of her own men.

Count Lippe: Count Lippe is a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent whose job it was during the NATO project to assign the job of the double of Francois Derval for the hijacking scheme. However, Palazzi, Lippe's choice for the double of Derval got greedy and asked for more money. This displeased No. 1 because Lippe had picked someone who could have jeapordized the mission. Therefore, No. 1 had Lippe assassinated by Fiona Volpe, another S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent.

Angelo Palazzi: Angelo Palazzi is a mercenary recruited by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. who would undergo plastic surgery and voice lessons to look and sound like NATO aerial observer Major Francois Derval. When the time had come, Palazzi looked identical to Derval and shows up in his doorway and murders him with gamma gas. Immediately thereafter, he procedes to the air base. When the aircraft had finally gotten airborne, he hijacks the plane and crash lands the plane, which sinks into the Sea. Palazzi is killed when the hose to his oxygen supply is cut.

Ladislav Kutze: Ladislav Kutze is a Polish nuclear expert who defected to S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and now works on S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s NATO project. Kutze's job is to maintain the stolen nuclear weapons and to prepare them for possible detonatoin. Because of his weakhearted and easily intimidated nature, Kutze saves Domino from Largo's wrath and sabotages the last nuclear bomb so it cannot be used. In the last scene, when the Disco Volante is about to crash into a large ammount of rocks, Bond, Domino and Kutze jump off. Kutze is never seen again.

Vargas: Vargas is a henchman for S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent Emilio Largo. Vargas, according to Largo does not drink, does not smoke, and does not make love. Vargas, however, is a very experienced killer, and is sent to rid Largo of certain people. He however, is killed by Bond when he speares him with his CO2 speargun.

Janni: Janni is a henchman who works for S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent and millionaire, Emilio Largo. Janni, as well as Vargas, enjoys killing people.

Quist: Quist is a henchman working for S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent Emilio Largo. A very important job, the assassination of James Bond, was put in the quite uncapable hands of Quist. When Quist tries to assassinate Bond in his Nassau hotel room, he is found out and is taken care of. Bond finds Quist in the shower, so he turns on the hot water and scalds him. He then takes his gun and beats him up a little. After this, Bond gives him his gun back and tells him to go back to Largo. When he returns to Largo, he is thrown into a tank of dangerous sharks and is killed.

Hans: Hans is the humongous bodyguard of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. No. 1, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. During the final fight scene between Bodn and Hans, Bond seems ta have met his match. Until however, Bond flips Hans over himself into the pool of writhing piranha fish, thus the death of Hans.

Grunther: Grunther is the assistant to Frau Irma Bunt, who is the personal secretary of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. No. 1, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. During the climatic fight scene between Tracy de Vincenzo and Grunther, he uses somewhat nonchalant methods of restraining her. However, in the end, she gets away and he is trapped inside the doomed Piz Gloria.

Rhoda:

Mr. Kidd:

Mr. Wint:

PLOTS

•In the movie Dr. No the first S.P.E.C.T.R.E. plot was revealed, the toppling of American Missiles for a large fee from a foreign power.

•In the movie From Russia With Love is where the second plot arose. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. tricked the British into stealing a Russian LEKTOR encoder for them. After James Bond steals it, they plan to retrieve it by use of an assassin. Resulting in getting the LEKTOR to sell back to the Russians and also killing the famous James Bond 007.

•Smaller plots that were revealed in the movie Thunderball consisted of blackmailing a double agent, assassinating a French heavy water specialist, consulting for the British train robbery and distributing Red China narcotics in the USA.

•Another plot was revealed in the movie Thunderball. This plot consisted of stealing two atomic weapons and blackmailing the British government into paying £100 million ransom for the weapons.

•The fourth plot in the James Bond movies of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is when the Chinese government paid S.P.E.C.T.R.E. to hijack both an American and Russian spacecraft by using a specially designed spacecraft to make each country think it was the other. Thus creating a spark between the two super-powers, Russia and the United States. However, during the operation Ernst Stavro Blofeld rewrote his agreement with the Chinese demanding another £100 million.

•The last time S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is mentioned is in the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The plot in this movie is to hold the world ransom with the use of biological warfare. The terms of ransom were for the world to pardon all of Blofeld's crimes. After this failed operation, Ernst Stavro Blofeld apparently went independent.

SMERSH
S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
KGB

The Word SMERSH is a conjunction of the words Smyert Shpionam meaning "Death To Spies". The organization SMERSH is the Soviet organ of vengeance, ensuring loyalty to the state and eliminating enemies. The location of SMERSH is given in the movie Casino Royale as 13 Sretenka Ulitsa, Moscow. SMERSH has five departments:

• Department I: Responsible for counter-intelligence amongst Soviet organizations both home and abroad
• Department II: Operations and Executions; Carries out judgment of Department V
• Department III: Administrations and Finance
• Department IV: Investigation and Legal Work
• Department V: Prosecution; Passes judgment on individuals suspected guilty of treachery

AGENTS

Rosa Klebb: Klebb, a very important S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent, at one time worked for the russian spy organization SMERSH before she was recruited by S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

SUB-OPERATIVES

Krilencu: Krilencu, in From Russia, With Love, gives station T-Turkey trouble and also holds a personal vendetta against Ali Kerim Bey. Krilencu is killed when he is flushed out of his hiding place by Ali Kerim Bey's sons and is subsiquently shot while making his escape.

PLOTS

There are no direct plots at 007 or his missions in the James Bond movies from SMERSH.

•In From Russia With Love, James Bond assumes that he is facing SMERSH for the LEKTOR, but then being told by 'Red' Grant he realizes that S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the real enemy. However, a Bulgar named Krilencu in From Russia With Love made plans to harm the Turks and Gypsies working in conjunction with MI6 from an unforgotten hatred.

•In The Living Daylights, General Georgi Koskov convinces M and the Minister of Defense that General Leonid Pushkin has begun the operation Smyert Shpionam as a cover for the killing of several MI6 agents by Brad Whitaker

In both cases SMERSH was never actually involved with the plots of the James Bond movies.

KGB
S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
SMERSH

LEADERS

General Lazly:

General Alexis Gogol: General Alexis Gogol is the senior KGB officer and is a running character in the Bond series. General Gogol wasi ntorduced into the Bond series in the movie 'The Spy Who Loved Me' as M's opposite number in the Russian Secret SErvice, the KGB. Gogol also appears in the movies Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View To A Kill and The Living Daylights.

General Leonid Pushkin: General Leonid Pushkin is General Alexis Gogol's replacement as the head of The Soviet KGB. Pushkin is a character in the omvie 'The Living Daylights'. In the movie, he is accused of reinstating an old KGB project, Smeirt Shpionam, "Death to Spies". Bond works with Pushkin to fake his assassination to catch the real killers of two MI6 agents.

General Georgi Koskov:

AGENTS

Kozlowski:

Benz:

Major Anya Amasova: Major Anya Amasova, XXX, is a top KGB agent who works in coordination wiht James Bond. Both she and Bond uncover an evil plot of Karl STromberg to eliminate two world cities. However, anamosity between the two begins during the mission when she learns that Bond had killed her lover in one of his previous missions. She then swears to kill Bond after their mission is completed, but instead falls in love with him.

Ivan and Boris:

Sergei Barsov:

Log Cabin Girl: The Log Cabin Girl is seen with Bond as she rests in a cabin in the Siberian mountains. It is her mission, as a member of the KGB, to keep an eye on 007. Following Bond's receiving a message from HQ, he prepares to face the cold Siberian Winter. After he leaves, she communicates to her comerades that he has left, adn to intercept and exterminate him.

Eric Kreigler:

Max Zorin:

Klotkoff:

Pola Ivanova:

Venz:

PLOTS

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