In Specter, Daniel Craig embodies the secret agent for the fourth time, and skillfully orchestrated by Sam Mendes, Bond faces the formidable Criminal Organization Specter, led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, this time embodied on the screen by Christoph Waltz .
Nemesis pulling the strings in James Bond 007 against Dr No and good Russian kisses, the main enemy of James Bond in Operation Tonnerre, we only live twice, in the secret service of His Majesty, the diamonds are eternal or never again, the I unofficial James Bond, the Specter organization is at the heart of the universe created by Ian Fleming.
But do you know what the acronym means of this sprawling criminal organization? Specter is the acronym for “espionage service, counterintelligence, terrorism, retaliation and extortion”. Suffice to say that the goal is rather clear …
Fictive seat in Paris
Imagine that her fictitious seat, originally, is located in Paris, at 136 Boulevard Haussmann, where she hides behind an honest association coming into aid for war refugees, the Firco (International Fraternity of Resistance against the Oppression).
To create this entity in his novels, Ian Fleming was inspired by the organization -real this -of the legendary and terrible service of the Smersh. This was the name used to designate Russian military counter-espionage services during the Second World War.
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Founded by the sinister Lavrenti Pavlovitch Beria in 1943, the man who was at the head first of the NKVD (ancestor of the KGB), the Smersh was responsible for eliminating the traitors, deserters, spies and criminal elements of the Red Army . Its next leader, Viktor Semionovitch Abakoumov, depended directly on Joseph Staline. This organization, by secret definition, was dissolved in 1946. Ironically, the two men will ultimately be passed by arms …
Fleming having worked during the war in the British intelligence services, we imagine what he could see or hear about him, and feed his saga abundantly …
Original article published on Allociné
