After being absent from the third film, Goldfinger (1964), SPECTRE returns in the fourth film, Thunderball (1965), which closely mirrors the events of the novel, and subsequently is featured in the following films. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. In this, a man named Dr. German (Gestapo) Section Following Diamonds Are Forever, SPECTRE and Blofeld were retired from the EON Films series, except for a cameo by a character implied to be Blofeld in For Your Eyes Only (1981) in which said character is killed. SPECTRE thus works with, and against, both sides of the Cold War. Rosa Klebb(Deceased) 4. The next Bond novelist, Raymond Benson, reintroduces Irma Bunt, Blofeld's assistant, in his short story "Blast From the Past", which is a sequel to You Only Live Twice. Presumably killed by Mr. White. Severine – the mistress of Raoul Silva who works for him by fear and tries to be free from him by sending Bond in his pursuit in hopes that Bond kills Silva. During the events of the fifth film, You Only Live Twice (1967), they attempt to incite a war between the United States and Soviet Union. The organisation's third appearance is in the eleventh novel, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) where Blofeld, hired by an unnamed country or party—though the Soviet Union is implied—is executing a plan to ruin British agriculture with biological warfare. SPECTRE was dismantled for good after Diamonds Are Forever. Blofeld notes that one fish is refraining from fighting two others until their fight is concluded. When Fleming was writing the novel in 1959, he believed that the Cold War might end during the two years it would take to produce the film, and came to the conclusion that the inclusion of a contemporary political villain would leave the film looking dated; he therefore thought it better to create a politically neutral enemy for Bond. Bruno Bayer In Casino Royale, it is revealed that Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen) and a reluctant Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) are in league with a crime syndicate that is behind Mr. White (Jesper Christensen). ; three of the top surviving members of the former Sonderdienst of the Gestapo; three tough Yugoslav operatives who had resigned from Marshal Tito’s Secret Police, and three highland Turks (the Turks of the plains are no good) formerly members of Blofeld’s RAHIR and subsequently responsible for KRYSTAL, the important Middle Eastern pipeline whose outlet is Beirut. Stabbed with a knife by Bond. It is stated in the novel that if something were to happen to Blofeld, Largo would assume command. In 1998, MGM/UA took legal action against Sony and McClory in the United States to prevent Warhead 2000 AD from going into production. Thrown out of a moving train by Bond. In the films, the organisation often acts as a third party in the ongoing Cold War. ", "No Time to Die plot details reveal opening sequence, Spectre connections", "Interview: Warren Ellis renews his license to kill in JAMES BOND: EIDOLON", "MGM, Danjaq Settle James Bond Rights Dispute With McClory Estate", "The Source Of D.e.a.t.h. View all posts by M. Like the post. This, to me is very different from how I would assume an evil terrorist group was put together. Shot by Bond. Guerra – Spectre member, seen during the Rome meeting who volunteers to replace Marco Sciarra in the chase for Mr. White. Marco Sciarra – a Spectre assassin co-ordinating terrorist attacks around the world. Learn how your comment data is processed. For example, in the film Thunderball, it simultaneously blackmails a Japanese double agent, distributes Red Chinese narcotics in the United States, kills a defector to the USSR on behalf of the French Foreign Ministry, and threatens NATO with stolen nuclear weapons, while continuing ordinary criminal operations such as advising on the British Great Train Robbery. The top level of the organisation is made up of twenty-one individuals, eighteen of whom handle day-to-day affairs and are drawn in groups of three from six of the world's most notorious organisations—the Nazi German Gestapo, the Soviet SMERSH, Yugoslav Marshal Josip Broz Tito's OZNA, the Italian Mafia, the French-Corsican Unione Corse, and a massive Turkish heroin-smuggling operation. #12 Pierre Borraud (executed) Their objectives have variously ranged from supporting Dr. Julius No in sabotaging American rocket launches, holding the world to ransom, and demanding clemency from governments for their previous crimes. With the films as inspirations, the stories were adapted for players. By deliberately drawing attention away from the true leader of the organisation, he is protected by masquerading as a target of lower importance, and the structure of the organisation is also obscured from intelligence services. Sicilian Section 886807 25 HPR3559 25 HPR9615B 15 886850 40 HPR3588 30 HPR9615K 15 887344 30 HPR3647 15 HPR9615W 15 887351 45 HPR3660 30 HPR9616 15 887417 65 HPR3901 40 HPR9616B 15 Members who fail missions are immediately executed, usually in gory and spectacular ways. Well known examples are THRUSH and KAOS from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Instead, it is referred to as a "powerful criminal organisation." The film is essentially another chapter in the continuing series. In Ian Fleming's novels, SPECTRE is a commercial enterprise led by Blofeld. However, in the EON films the number indicates rank within the organisation: Blofeld is always referred to as "Number 1" and Emilio Largo, in Thunderball, is "Number 2". [2] Fleming's SPECTRE has elements inspired by mafia syndicates and organised crime rings that were actively hunted by law enforcement in the 1950s. Carlos – the chief of the Bolivian Military Police and a friend of René Mathis who betrays him and has him killed on the orders of Greene and Medrano. They in fact leased out services to other terrorist organisations and various crime syndicates. The sense I got from Flemings description and the background to a Spectre was just how business like it was run. This article is about the fictional criminal organisation. His fate is unknown. In 1983, McClory released a film based on his Bond rights entitled Never Say Never Again. In the first book to include SPECTRE, Thunderball, it is stated that the numbers of each member changes periodically (it "advances round a rota by two digits at midnight on the first of every month") to avoid detection and Blofeld is in fact "Number 2". Pursues Bond and Madeleine Swann. The most noted changes were to SPECTRE: Blofeld's name was changed to Karl Ferenc Skorpios, and he was given a greyhound instead of a white cat; the organisation itself was renamed, An evil organisation named STENCH (Society for the Total Extermination of Non-Conforming Humans) is featured in the film, An organisation known as SCORPIA (Sabotage, CORruPtion, Intelligence, and Assassination) appears in the, This page was last edited on 21 November 2020, at 06:26. He is killed with a shot in the head by Bond as revenge for betraying Mathis. Thus SPECTRE's main strategy is to instigate conflict between two powerful enemies, namely the superpowers, hoping that they will exhaust themselves and be vulnerable when it seizes power. SPECTRE is headed by the criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld who usually appears accompanied by a Chinchilla Silver Persian cat in the films, but not in the books. A physicist named Kotze (who later defected) and an electronics expert named Maslov were also included in the group for their expertise on scientific and technical matters. Russian (SMERSH) Section The Quantum organisation from 2008's Quantum of Solace is revealed to be a subsidiary of Spectre, while Raoul Silva from Skyfall is shown to be affiliated with the organisation. Largo appears in the 1961 novel Thunderball, the 1965 film version and its Dr Vogel – Spectre member, seen during the Rome meeting. Apparently disbanded afterwards, SPECTRE is said to be active again in the next book, The Spy Who Loved Me, although the organisation is not involved in the plot. [1] The remaining three members are Blofeld himself and two scientific/technical experts. It is revealed throughout the course of the film that Spectre, and in turn Ernst Stavro Blofeld, have been the power behind the villains of the previous three films. [7] Having lost its mantle of acronym, now simply called Spectre, the organisation and Blofeld were the main antagonists in the first Bond film released after the settlement, Spectre.[3][4]. SPECTRE is a fictional organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and video games. #14, #5 Kotze (East German Physicist) Loyalists endured as plants and sleeper agents in the aftermath of a Warsaw Pact surge, waiting for the right moment for SPECTRE to have a reformation and resurgence.[6]. To heighten the impact of executions, Blofeld had been known to focus attention on an innocent member, making it appear his death is imminent, only to suddenly strike down the actual target when that person is off guard. The film Spectre presents the organisation as a conspiracy of legitimate businesses and organised crime, moving to become a private intelligence agency. The organisation is first mentioned in Dr. No as being affiliated with Dr. No, although the main organisation is No's personal army. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the second chapter of what is known as the "Blofeld Trilogy", Blofeld has revived SPECTRE where he attempts to carry out biological warfare against the United Kingdom. Their début is in the ninth Bond novel, Thunderball (1961). Differences to common chart: The merciless killing of assistant Helga Brandt in You Only Live Twice, for failing to kill James Bond, horrifies even visiting Red Chinese agents; she is thrown into Blofeld's piranhas pool and dies in terror as she is eaten. Later, the John Gardner Bond novel, For Special Services introduces a revived SPECTRE led by Blofeld's daughter, Nena Bismaquer. Lieutenant Orso – lieutenant to General Medrano. He… Blofeld reveals to Bond he was behind Le Chiffre and the organisation known as Quantum from the 2008 Bond film, it being a subsidiary of Spectre. This iteration of Spectre will return in the upcoming 2021 film No Time to Die.[5]. Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In the novels, the numbers of members were initially assigned at random and then rotated up by two digits on a once-a-month basis to prevent detection; for example, if a SPECTRE operative is titled "Number 1" in the present month, the security system will designate them "Number 3" in the next month, "Number 5" in the following month and so forth. Moreau – Spectre member, seen during the Rome meeting informing other members about Spectre involvement in distribution of illegal drugs. #18 Maslov/Kandinsky (Polish Electronics Expert), Sub-Operator G (Count Lippe) Still at large. In both the film and the novel Thunderball, the physical headquarters of the organisation are laid in Paris, operating behind a front organisation aiding refugees (named "Firco" in the novels and "International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons'" in the films). General Medrano – an exiled Bolivian dictator who associates with Dominic Greene to come back to power in Bolivia in exchange of a piece of land in the Atacama desert rich in water that will allow Quantum to have the monopoly of the water and sell it to Bolivia at twice the market price. In some Italian movies, the organisation is called, In 1983, a highly successful James Bond tabletop RPG was released. In the novel, Dr. No worked for the USSR. The twenty men who looked up the long table at this man and waited patiently for him to speak were a curious mixture of national types. However, the acquisition allowed MGM to fold Quantum into SPECTRE's org chart, a plot point that reigns in 2015's Spectre. In the original Bond novel series, SPECTRE's first and last appearance as a worldwide power is in the novel Thunderball. There is one item of confusion for me, Fleming says there were 20 men (not counting Blofeld) in attendance for the briefing behind the facade of F.I.R.C.O., but we learn that No. It was a ‘for profit organisation’ and indeed Fleming makes it clear how lucrative each job has been. Shot in the head by Bond. Lorenzo – One of Spectre's guards seen during the Rome meeting. In it, SPECTRE attempts to conduct nuclear blackmail against NATO. When Ian Fleming introduces us to SPECTRE in Thunderball, we get our most detailed listing of the organization and how it is structured. In 1983 Warner Bros. released Never Say Never Again, starring Sean Connery and based on the same original source material as Thunderball. Although Bond ultimately prevents SPECTRE from reforming, it continued under the leadership of Tamil Rahani to play a part in Role of Honour and Nobody Lives for Ever. Due to the embargo placed on the series as a result of the copyright dispute, the rebooted series initially introduced the terrorist cell Quantum as a replacement, but was then retconned to be a subsidiary of Spectre. Still at large. Maslov/Kandinsky (Polish Electronics Expert). ? #1 Emilio Largo SPECTRE also serve as the primary antagonists of the film, orchestrating a plan to humiliate and kill James Bond as revenge for the death of Dr. No. Partly owing to a copyright dispute between rival Bond producers Albert R. Broccoli and Kevin McClory, the character is never referred to by name and is credited as "Wheelchair Villain", though the closed captions for the film later refer to him as Blofeld. In this comic, SPECTRE has a World War II organisation that is mostly defunct. #? Thrown out of a helicopter by Bond. spectre FactorEngine arranges data by bars, so Return(win=10) means 10 bars return, may actually be more than 10 days if some assets not open trading in period. The two who were different were both scientists with scientists’ other-worldly eyes—Kotze, the East German physicist who had come over to the West five years before and had exchanged his secrets for a modest pension and retirement in Switzerland, and Maslov, formerly Kandinsky, the Polish electronics expert who, in 1956, had resigned as head of the radio research department of Philips AG of Eindhoven and had then disappeared into obscurity. In 1963, EON Productions producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman made an agreement with McClory to adapt the novel into the fourth James Bond film, also stipulating that McClory would not be allowed to make further adaptations of Thunderball for at least ten years after the release. Sub-Operator 201, Crew of Disco Volante are all Sub-Operators, Historian and fan of the literary James Bond and his world as created by Ian Fleming. Leo – henchman of Le Chiffre. Not sure if anyone would disagree with me, but it is subtle. Shot by Camille Montes. By this point, the organisation has largely been shut down, and what remains is focused on maintaining Blofeld's alias as Dr. Guntram von Shatterhand and his compound in Japan. 1, Largo, is already on location in the Bahamas. Then, that cunning fish attacks the weakened victor and kills it easily. He is killed by Mr. Hinx to have the assignment of the mission. But they had certain characteristics in common. In both the films and the novels, Emilio Largo is the second in command. In Ian Fleming's novels, SPECTRE was primarily a commercial enterprise led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. #11 Patrice – a mercenary for hire that is employed by Raoul Silva to steal the drive with the identities of the MI6 cover agents in the. Kratt – Le Chiffre's right-hand man. When Ian Fleming introduces us to SPECTRE in Thunderball, we get our most detailed listing of the organization and how it is structured. The strict codes of loyalty and silence, and the hard retributions that followed violations, were hallmarks of American gangster rings, the Italian Mafia, the Unione Corse, the Chinese Tongs and Triads, and the Japanese Yakuza and Black Dragon Society. The goal of world domination was only ever stated in You Only Live Twice and SPECTRE was working on behalf of an unnamed Asian government; this is strongly implied to be Red China, who earlier backed Auric Goldfinger in the film of the same name. Although the From Russia with Love video game mirrors much of the plot of the eponymous film, it uses an organisation called OCTOPUS rather than SPECTRE to avoid copyright issues. SPECTRE also possesses extremely advanced technology, such as virtual reality and energy generators in its volcano lair. Falls to his death of the top floor of the Eco Hotel when pushed by Camille Montes. SPECTRE is not aligned to any nation or political ideology, enabling the later Bond books and Bond films to be regarded as somewhat apolitical, though the presence of former Gestapo members in the organisation are a clear sign of Fleming's warning of Nazi fugitives after the Second World War first detailed in the novel Moonraker (1954). Their deb… Members are typically referred to by number rather than by name. Kronsteen(Deceased) 5. It also reintroduces both SPECTRE and Blofeld. In the films, SPECTRE usually replaced SMERSH as the main villains, although there is a brief reference to SMERSH in the second EON Bond film, From Russia with Love (1963). Minor changes to plots and villains were made; for example, Wint and Kidd were freelance assassins working for SPECTRE. Evil's second in command, known only as "Number Two", is a parody of Emilio Largo, Blofeld's second in command. Led by criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the international organisation first formally appeared in the novel Thunderball (1961) and in the film Dr. No (1962). The ruthlessness to which it Blofeld runs it, coming from a motivation of profit rather than ideology. In the novel, Blofeld electrocutes one member in his chair for sexually molesting a girl who had been kidnapped by the organization; he had previously strangled a second to death with a garrote and shot a third through the heart with a compressed-air pistol. Fleming says there are 20 full members under Blofeld, with six three-man sections plus experts Kotze and Maslov. On 15 November 2013, MGM and the McClory estate announced that they had formally settled the issue with Danjaq, LLC and MGM had acquired the full copyright to the characters and concepts of Blofeld and SPECTRE. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. The other eighteen men consisted of cells of three (Blofeld accepted the Communist triangle system for security reasons) from six national groups and, within these groups, from six of the world’s great criminal and subversive organizations. In addition to Silva, Le Chiffre, Mr. White, and Dominic Greene are all revealed to have a direct connection to Spectre. The organisation however didn't appear in the comic books until Eidolon, a miniseries published by Dynamite Entertainment in 2016, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Jason Masters. Fleming says there are 20 full members under Blofeld, with six three-man sections plus experts Kotze and Maslov. Its long-term strategy, however, is illustrated by the analogy of the three Siamese fighting fish Blofeld keeps in an aquarium aboard SPECTRE's yacht in the film version of From Russia with Love. For the 2015 James Bond film named after it, see, SPECTRE's logo as featured on its members' rings in, Learn how and when to remove this template message, explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective, "Would the world be a better place if James Bond had never existed? Spectre Air Filter Oiling Chart Use this chart to determine the required oil amount for Spectre air filters. There are also the personal structures of its members such as Auric Goldfinger's Auric Enterprises facility and casino and Dr. No's Crab Key. When I read Thunderball for the first time I found the description of Spectre very interesting; although I admit I didn’t pick up on the missing man. Fonda – "Number 4", an Italian Artiq who recruited Petacchi for the plot, Marius Domingue – "Number 7", another Unione Corse man; highly trustworthy, but singled out by Blofeld for a lecture to throw Borraud off guard, Maslov – "Number 18", formerly known as Kandinsky; a Polish electronics expert who resigned from Philips AG, Kotze – "Number 5", formerly known as Emil Traut; an East German physicist who defected to the West, Strelik – "Number 10", a former SMERSH member; shot dead by Largo for questioning the loyalty of the other SPECTRE members, "Number 11" – Another ex-SMERSH operative, "Number 6" – Kills Lippe at the behest of Blofeld for being unreliable, Irma Bunt – Henchwoman in the novel and film. ? Sub-Operator 52 Fidelio Sciacca. Led by criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the international organisation first formally appeared in the novel Thunderball and in the film Dr. No. Mollaka – a bomb maker from Madagascar employed by Dimitrios to explode the Skyfleet plane. Blofeld was the chairman and leader because he founded the organisation and Largo was elected by the cabinet to be second in command. Blofeld, with a weakened SPECTRE, would appear for the final time in the twelfth novel, You Only Live Twice (1964). Here is the breakdown of men, as best as I can determine: Corsican Section She is executed with a shot in the head by Silva for her treason. The organisation behind Le Chiffre in 2006's Casino Royale was revealed to be Spectre in the 2015 film through retroactive establishment. Thrown to his death by Bond from a balcony onto a large meeting table. Second in command and successor of Blofeld (Deceased) 3. Although SPECTRE and Blofeld were used in a number of films before and after Thunderball, the issue over the copyright of Thunderball prevented SPECTRE and Blofeld from becoming the main villains in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me. Blofeld's final appearance is in You Only Live Twice, where SPECTRE has largely disbanded. Just wanted to share my impression about Spectre. McClory's Bond rights, including his rights in SPECTRE, were unaffected. #4 Fonda SPECTRE and its characters were at the centre of long-standing litigation between Kevin McClory and Ian Fleming over the film rights to Thunderball and the ownership of the organisation and its characters. [3][4] In the film, Bond is posthumously sent by Judi Dench's M to assassinate Marco Sciarra, which in turn leads him on the trail of the organisation. Arrested after being framed for the deaths of, Alex Dimitrios – a Greek terrorist associated with Le Chiffre who employs two bombers: first Mollaka then Carlos to explode the prototype plane of Skyfleet on the behalf of Le Chiffre. In film number six, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Blofeld develops a biological warfare program and plans to demand clemency and recognition of a claimed title of nobility.

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