Le Chiffre was a displaced person, claiming amnesia;
Hugo Drax, also claiming amnesia, is a Nazi continuing the War;
former Luftwaffe officers help Goldfinger;
von Hammerstien was Gestapo, then ran Batista's Counter-Intelligence;
there are ex-Gestapo men in SPECTRE which uses Communist cell organization;
Tanaka, now an ally and friend, had volunteered for kami-kaze.
WWII has a long shadow.
Additionally, James Bond once goes after Italian drug runners. Read Yamamura, Flandry and Bond.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I would have included some comments about how Bond also had to contend with Soviet SMERSH agents (see esp. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE). These were villains I found more convincing than Blofeld and SPECTRE.
Sean
Sean,
I was concentrating on the post-War angle but, yes, the real world SMERSH operated during the War. Fictionally, Fleming had it continuing after the War.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
And the real world Soviet MVD and KGB were plenty SMERSH like! They too sent out hit squads to elmininate irritating persons, spread disinformation, and practiced aggressive intelligence operations and subversion, etc.
Sean
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