SPECTRE
SPECTRE is an organization that features in James Bond.
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History
The Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion (SPECTRE)
Overview
In appearance, SPECTRE operated as a commercial enterprise led by Blofeld. The top level of the organisation was made up of 21 individuals with 18 of them handling day-to-day affairs. Members were drawn in groups of three from six of the world's most notorious organisations. Among them included the Nazi German Gestapo, the Soviet SMERSH, Yugoslav Marshal Josip Broz Tito's OZNA, the Italian Mafia, the French-Corsican Unione Corse, and KRYSTAL, a massive Turkish heroin-smuggling operation.
The members of the headboard of SPECTRE went by numbers (e.g.: Number 1) as codenames. In the novels, the numbers of members were initially assigned at random and then rotated by two digits every month to prevent detection. For example, if one was Number 1 this month, he would be Number 3 next month. In the novel, Thunderball Blofeld has been assigned "Number 2", while Emilio Largo is assigned "Number 1". This particular example of numbering was perhaps deliberately borrowed from revolutionary organisations, wherein members exist in cells and are numerically defined to prevent identification and cross-betrayal of aims. By deliberately drawing attention away from the true leader of the organisation, he was protected by masquerading as a target of lower importance, and the structure of the organisation was also obscured from intelligence services.
It operated under strict codes of loyalty and silence, and the hard retributions that followed violations. Members who failed missions were immediately executed with this done typically in gory and spectacular ways.
Their main strategy was to instigate conflict between two powerful enemies, namely the superpowers, hoping that they will exhaust themselves and be vulnerable when it seized power.
Members were typically referred to by number rather than by name.
Members
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld :
- Emilio Largo :
- Rosa Klebb :
- Tov Kronsteen :
- Helga Brandt :
- Irma Bunt :
- Julius No :
- Tamil Rahani :
- Jay Autem Holy :
- Nena Bisquamer :
- Mr. White :
- Le Chiffre :
- Dominic Greene :
- Raoul Silva :
- Mr. Hinx :
Notes
- SPECTRE was created by Ian Fleming where it featured in the setting of the James Bond universe.
In other media
Films
- In Dr. No, SPECTRE appeared in the setting of the 1962 live-action film. The organisation is mentioned as being affiliated with Dr. No, although the main organisation in the movie is No's personal army. In the novel, Dr. No worked for the USSR. In the films, SPECTRE usually replaced SMERSH as the main villain, although there is a brief reference to SMERSH in the second EON Bond film, From Russia with Love (1963). The film adaptation of From Russia with Love also features the first on-screen appearance of Blofeld, although he is only identified by name in the closing credits of the film and his face is not seen at all. SPECTRE also serves as the primary antagonist of the film, orchestrating a plan to humiliate and kill James Bond as revenge for the death of Dr. No.
Video games
Appearances
- Thunderball: (1964)
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