"'...if Commandant Larreka is right about a leader who has been uniting the wild folk for purposes that go beyond pillage.'" (p; 108)
Larreka has deduced the existence of Arnanak.
"'...I endeavoured to put myself in the minds of SPECTRE - or rather, for there is certainly a master mind behind all this, in the mind of the chief of SPECTRE: my opposite number, so to speak.'"
-Ian Fleming, Thunderball (London, 1961), 8, p. 63.
M has deduced the existence of Blofeld.
If the enemy is united and formidable, then someone formidable is uniting them! Blofeld became a series villain and a cinematic icon. Arnanak still could.
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Kaor, Paul!
Yes, but a bureaucracy like the Cheka/MVD/KGB/FSB (that last being what Russia now has) can outlive any number of their chiefs. But I grant some of those chiefs will be more effective than others.
I expressed skepticism in the past about how effective S.P.E.C.T.R.E could be once it attracted the concentrated, determined, and hostile attention of a powerful state.
Ad astra! Sean
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