Spectre

[UKwizard]

 

[DSmith21]

Whatever happened to SMERSH?

 

[UKwizard]

Um it became Spectre when Bond made the leap from book to film long long ago.

 

[DSmith21]

Um it became Spectre when Bond made the leap from book to film long long ago.

Actually references to SMERSH appear in three of the films (From Russia with Love, Casino Royal (original version) and the Living Daylights. SMERSH was replaced by either Spectre or generic "KGB" bad guys otherwise. Was just seeing if anyone read the novels.

 

[Century Cat]

Smersh (a contraction for the Russian Smert Shpionam, IIRC - Death to Spies) was an arm of the KGB and became extinct as the USSR dissolved, or before.

 

[DSmith21]

Smersh (a contraction for the Russian Smert Shpionam, IIRC - Death to Spies) was an arm of the KGB and became extinct as the USSR dissolved, or before.

The real Smersh was dissolved in 1946. It had been used against the Nazis. The Smersh in the bond books was an acronym for Special Methods Spy Detection and it was supposed to be a counter intelligence group.

 

[DSmith21]

Shouldn't it be something like SMESDET then?

I translated it for you. From Wikipedia:

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 Spetsyalnye MEtody Razoblacheniya SHpyonov, meaning "Special Methods of Spy Detection", (in Russian Cyrillic СМЕРШ: Специальные Методы Разоблaчения Шпионов) .[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH_(James_Bond)

 

[DSmith21]

Yeah, who can read that freaking Cyrillic alphabet anyway.