"Q (James Bond) Q is a fictional character in the James Bond films and film novelisations. Q (standing for Quartermaster as well as a reference to the deceptive Q-ships) is a job title, unlike M, which is a cypher for the character's name. He is the head of Q Branch (or later Q Division), the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service. Q has appeared in 21 of the 24 Eon Productions James Bond films, the exceptions being ""Live and Let Die"", the 2006 ""Casino Royale"" and ""Quantum of Solace"". The character was also featured in both"
"operatives abroad in subversion of the West, with the additional goal of killing Western spies, particularly James Bond of SIS. SMERSH's headquarters are variously stated to be in Leningrad or in Moscow, Soviet Union. In the Bond film series, SMERSH is usually replaced with SPECTRE – a global terrorist organisation. The novel ""Casino Royale"" breaks SMERSH down into five departments or отделы (оtdyels): Within the world of James Bond, SMERSH is a Soviet counterintelligence agency that is a recurring threat to him and the British Secret Service. In ""Casino Royale"", the first Bond novel, SMERSH is described as the most"
"James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based on a number of commandos whom"
"""The Intelligence Men"", and STENCH in ""Carry On Spying"". SMERSH (James Bond) SMERSH is a fictional Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis. SMERSH is the acronym of ""Spetsialnye MEtody Razoblacheniya SHpionov"", meaning ""Special Methods of Spy Detection"" (in Russian Cyrillic СМЕРШ: Специальные Методы Разоблaчения Шпионов). Fleming's version of SMERSH supposedly was modelled upon the real SMERSH organisation, which existed 1943–1946 (the real name is a portmanteau of two Russian words: ""SMERt' SHpionam"" [Смерть Шпионам, Směrť Špionam] meaning ""Death to Spies""). However, the novels portray SMERSH as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organisation,"
"SMERSH (James Bond) SMERSH is a fictional Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis. SMERSH is the acronym of ""Spetsialnye MEtody Razoblacheniya SHpionov"", meaning ""Special Methods of Spy Detection"" (in Russian Cyrillic СМЕРШ: Специальные Методы Разоблaчения Шпионов). Fleming's version of SMERSH supposedly was modelled upon the real SMERSH organisation, which existed 1943–1946 (the real name is a portmanteau of two Russian words: ""SMERt' SHpionam"" [Смерть Шпионам, Směrť Špionam] meaning ""Death to Spies""). However, the novels portray SMERSH as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organisation, much more resembling the real-life KGB, which aims its"
"of Bond in a different way. James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the ""James Bond"" series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based"
"Miss Moneypenny Miss Moneypenny, later assigned the first names of Eve or Jane, is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. She is secretary to M, who is Bond's superior officer and head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Although she has a small part in most of the films, it is always highlighted by the underscored romantic tension between her and Bond (something that is virtually non-existent in Ian Fleming's novels, though is somewhat more apparent in the Bond novels by John Gardner and Raymond Benson). On that note, she is not always considered to"
"William Stephenson Sir William Samuel Stephenson , (23 January 1897 – 31 January 1989) was a Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, spymaster, and the senior representative of British Security Coordination (BSC) for the entire western hemisphere during World War II. He is best known by his wartime intelligence codename Intrepid. Many people consider him to be one of the real-life inspirations for James Bond. Ian Fleming himself once wrote, ""James Bond is a highly romanticized version of a true spy. The real thing is ... William Stephenson."" As head of the British Security Coordination, Stephenson handed over British scientific secrets"
"have played Bond in these films. The central figure in Ian Fleming's work is the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the ""Secret Service"". Bond is also known by his code number, 007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. During World War II, Ian Fleming had mentioned to friends that he wanted to write a spy novel. It was not until 1952, however, shortly before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend, Ann Charteris, that Fleming began to write ""Casino Royale"", to distract himself from his forthcoming nuptials. Fleming started writing his first book, ""Casino Royale"", at"
"James Bond 007: Service James Bond 007: Service is a 2017 spy thriller one-shot comic book published by Dynamite Entertainment, featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent character, James Bond in the leading role, written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Antonio Fuso. The comic is licensed by Ian Fleming Publications and as such, spun off from the monthly ongoing ""James Bond"" series, coming out as a one-off special in the franchise. Presumably set after the events of Brexit, a word was received by MI-6 from an unidentified source that the newly appointed U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Thomas was being targeted"
"Ministry building Adastral House (now known as No 1 Kingsway). The name MI7 has often been used in fiction as the title for an intelligence agency or organisation similar to the actual MI5 or MI6. In the Bond film ""Dr. No"" (1962) there are two explicit references to James Bond working for MI6; strangely, one of these (where the words are spoken by 'M') has been dubbed to ""MI7"", although the speaker's lips clearly say ""MI6"". In the ""Operation Susie"" episode of ""The Professionals"", central organization CI5 comes into conflict with elements of MI7 working to a different agenda. Rowan"
"the chief of the Secret Service; the headquarters of STENCH is right below the streets of London. STENCH headquarters self-destructs, choking the chief's office in a thick cloud of smoke. Albert R. Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond film series, objected to the character name ""James Bind agent 006½"" (intended for Charles Hawtrey) and threatened legal action. Hence, producer Peter Rogers changed the name to Charlie and the agent's code number to double 0 – ooh! Poster artist Tom Chantrell also had to modify the poster when similar complaints were voiced that the artwork was too similar to ""From"
"the German documents cracked and read by the British was the Zimmermann Telegram, which was coded 0075, and which was one of the factors that led to the US entering the war. Subsequently, if material was graded 00 it meant it was highly classified and, as journalist Ben Macintyre has pointed out, ""to anyone versed in intelligence history, 007 signified the highest achievement of British military intelligence."" Inspirations for James Bond A number of real-life inspirations have been suggested for James Bond, the fictional character created in 1953 by British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming; Bond appeared"
"M (James Bond) M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond books and films; the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service—also known as MI6—and Bond's superior. Fleming based the character on a number of people he knew who commanded sections of British intelligence. M has appeared in the novels by Fleming and seven continuation authors, as well as in twenty-four films. In the Eon Productions series of films, M has been portrayed by four actors: Bernard Lee, Robert Brown, Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes, the incumbent; in the two independent productions, M was played by John Huston, David"
"James Bond filmography Commander James Bond RN—code number 007—is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1952. The character appeared in a series of twelve novels and two short story collections written by Fleming and a number of continuation novels and spin-off works after Fleming's death in 1964. There have been twenty-six films in total, produced between 1962 and 2015. Fleming portrayed Bond as a tall, athletic, handsome secret agent in his thirties or forties; he has several vices including drinking, smoking, gambling, automobiles and womanising. He is an exceptional marksman, and skilled in"
"Office of Scientific Intelligence Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) also known as Scientific Intelligence Division was a department of the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1963, it was incorporated into the Directorate of Science & Technology. The ""Office of Scientific Intelligence"" is the name for a fictional secret intelligence branch of the American government featured in the 1970s TV series ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" and ""The Bionic Woman"" and the cartoon ""The Venture Bros."" The name is also used in ""The Puppet Masters"". A variant name, the Department of Scientific Intelligence, aka ""The Shop"", is used in the Stephen King"
"the name James Secretan as Bond's cover name while on missions. Bond's number—007—was assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I: the breaking of the German diplomatic code. One of the German documents cracked and read by the British was the Zimmermann Telegram, which was coded 0075, and which was one of the factors that led to the US entering the war. Facially, Bond resembles the composer, singer and actor Hoagy Carmichael. In ""Casino Royale"" Vesper Lynd remarks, ""Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and"
"""GoldenEye"", 006 is an alias for Alec Trevelyan. The following lists are of the known 00 agents of the British Secret Service who exist in the Ian Fleming novels & short stories, the officially licensed novels, the EON movies, or in the official video games or comic strips. 00 Agent In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the derived films, the 00 Section of MI6 is considered the secret service's elite. A 00 (typically read """"Double O"""" and denoted in Fleming's novels by the letters ""OO"" rather than the digits ""00"") is a field agent that holds a licence to"
"Ernst Stavro Blofeld Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming. A criminal mastermind with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond. Blofeld is head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE and is commonly referred to by the codename Number 1 within this organisation. The character was originally written by Fleming as a physically massive and powerfully built man, standing around and weighing 21.6 stone (about ), who had become flabby with a huge belly. Blofeld appears"
"sent a copy to the publishing house Jonathan Cape. At first, they were unenthusiastic about the novel, but Fleming's brother Peter, whose books they managed, persuaded the company to publish it. On 13 April 1953 ""Casino Royale"" was released in the UK in hardcover, priced at 10s 6d, with a cover designed by Fleming. It was a success and three print runs were needed to cope with the demand. The novel centres on the exploits of James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his code number, 007, and was"
"regarding universal worldwide government secrets involving agencies, organizations and deep cover operations, willing to sell them to the highest bidder. While on pursuit, 007 finds himself being aided by a freelance shadowy assassin going by the name of Selah Sax, a former member of an extincted deep cover British government black ops unit, who herself tends to eliminate other unjustly assassins with the sole determination to protect Britain. According to review aggregator Comic Book Round Up, the first issue received an average score of 7.4/10. Newsarama reviewer David Pepose thought Ellis' version of Bond was the ""purest crystallization of the"
"Naval Intelligence Division during World War II, to whom he added his own style and a number of his own tastes. Fleming appropriated his character's name from the eponymous American ornithologist. Bond's code number 007 comes from one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I: the breaking of the German diplomatic code. One of the German documents cracked and read by the British was the Zimmermann Telegram, which was coded 0075, and which was one of the factors that led the US entering the war. Subsequently, if material was graded 00 it meant it was highly classified."
"in a Rolls-Royce. Wilfred Dunderdale Commander Wilfred Albert (Biffy) Dunderdale (24 December 1899 – 13 November 1990) was a British spy and intelligence officer. It has been suggested that Dunderdale was used by Ian Fleming as a basis for the character of James Bond. Wilfred Dunderdale was born in Odessa, son of Richard Albert Dunderdale, a shipping magnate. He worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) between 1921 and 1959. His work involved liaison with French intelligence (1926–40) and Polish intelligence (1940–45). Bill ""Biffy"" Dunderdale, was station head of MI6 in Paris, wore cufflinks and handmade suits and was"
"MI-13 (comics) MI-13, sometimes written MI13 or MI: 13, is a fictional British intelligence agency appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. MI-13 is depicted as operating out of Portwell House in Whitehall. It was introduced in ""Excalibur"" vol. 1 #101, by Warren Ellis under the call sign ""The Department"" for ten years until ""New Excalibur"" #1 explicitly mentioned the term ""MI13""; although invariably referred to as such, the agency's official name is the Extraordinary Intelligence Service (EIS). The department is closely associated with Marvel characters and Pete Wisdom, and, after being named MI-13, it would subsequently appear"
"officer. At the start of Fleming's first book, ""Casino Royale"", Bond is already a 00 agent, having been given the position after killing two enemy agents, a Japanese spy on the thirty-sixth floor of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center (then housing the headquarters of British Security Co-ordination - BSC) in New York City and a Norwegian double agent who had betrayed two British agents; it is suggested by Bond scholar John Griswold that these were part of Bond's wartime service with Special Operations Executive, a British World War II covert military organisation. In 1954, according to the Soviet file"
"James Bond and Moonraker James Bond and Moonraker is a novelization by Christopher Wood of the James Bond film ""Moonraker"". Its name was changed to avoid confusion with Fleming's novel. It was released in 1979. British Secret Service agent James Bond, codename 007, must prevent Sir Hugo Drax's plan to murder the entire human race and then restart humanity from outer space. The screenplay of ""Moonraker"" differed so much from Ian Fleming's novel that Eon Productions authorised the film's screenwriter, Christopher Wood to write a novelization based upon the film, as he had done for ""The Spy Who Loved Me""."
"secret agents and commando types I met during the war"". Besides real life individuals, James Bond was also inspired by one of Dennis Wheatley's characters; the secret agent Gregory Sallust, based on Wheatley's late friend Gordon Eric Gordon-Tombe. The 007 number assigned to James Bond may have been influenced by any number of sources. In the films and novels, the ""00"" prefix indicates Bond's discretionary ""licence to kill"", in executing his duties. Bond's number—007—was assigned by Fleming in reference to one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I: the breaking of the German diplomatic code. One of"
"the ""GoldenEye"" game and the original games """" and ""007 Legends"". Bill Tanner William ""Bill"" Tanner is a fictional character in the ""James Bond"" film and novel series. Tanner is an employee of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) who acts as M's Chief of Staff. Superb in a crisis, and blessed with a dry sense of humour, Tanner is Bond's staunchest ally in the Service, and they often enjoy a round of golf when off-duty. A family man, Tanner is just a little envious of Bond's freedom. In Ian Fleming's novels, Bill Tanner is MI6's Chief of Staff. He appears"
"of 2009 is an elderly Emma Peel from ""The Avengers"". In the 2003 film adaptation of the series, M is once again Moriarty, and played by Richard Roxburgh. M (James Bond) M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond books and films; the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service—also known as MI6—and Bond's superior. Fleming based the character on a number of people he knew who commanded sections of British intelligence. M has appeared in the novels by Fleming and seven continuation authors, as well as in twenty-four films. In the Eon Productions series of films, M has"
"recruited (as Bond was) from the British military's special forces. In the films, the 00 section is a discrete area of MI6, whose agents report directly to M, and tend to be sent on special assignments and troubleshooting missions, often involving rogue agents (from Britain or other countries) or situations where an ""ordinary"" intelligence operation uncovers or reveals terrorist or criminal activity too sensitive to be dealt with using ordinary procedural or legal measures, and where the aforementioned discretionary ""licence to kill"" is deemed necessary or useful in rectifying the situation. ""The World Is Not Enough"" introduces a special insignia"
"Home Section and the Foreign Section would seek their own identities, and Kell's department, the Security Service separated from Cummings' Secret Intelligence Service. According to the conclusions of author Andrew Cook, his biographer, which are not accepted by all historians, Melville then became the head of British Secret Service with the code name ""M"". Still, the service had small budget and on occasion Melville had to do the job himself. Melville's own section continued as a separate Special Section of the Secret Service Bureau and he concentrated on looking for German spies. In August 1914 the Bureau eventually identified the"
"Coordination (BSC), before being routed to their destination. Rumor has it that it was nicknamed 'Bletchley-in-the-Tropics' after the English country house where the ""Enigma"" code was broken (Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian-born British spymaster who was the subject of the book and film ""A Man Called Intrepid"" resided for a time at the Princess, following the war, before buying a home on the island, and was often visited there by his former subordinate, James Bond novelist Ian Fleming). ""A thousand people worked in the basement, checking to see if letters contained messages in invisible ink or if an extra period,"
"00 Agent In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the derived films, the 00 Section of MI6 is considered the secret service's elite. A 00 (typically read """"Double O"""" and denoted in Fleming's novels by the letters ""OO"" rather than the digits ""00"") is a field agent that holds a licence to kill in the field, at his or her discretion, to complete any mission. The novel ""Moonraker"" establishes that the section routinely has three agents concurrently; the film series, beginning with ""Thunderball"", establishes the number of 00 agents at a minimum of 9, with the likelihood of more. In"