10 Facts About SPECTRE

SPECTRE is a fictional organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, as well as the films and video games based on those novels.

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 can be considered as a sign of Fleming's warning of Nazi fugitives after the Second World War, as first detailed in the novel Moonraker .

In Ian Fleming's novels, SPECTRE, is a commercial enterprise led by Blofeld.

Fleming's SPECTRE has elements inspired by mafia syndicates and organised crime rings that were actively hunted by law enforcement in the 1950s.

Blofeld, with a weakened SPECTRE, would appear for the final time in the twelfth novel, You Only Live Twice .

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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.

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.

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.

SPECTRE is shown, but never mentioned by name, in the game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent.

SPECTRE possesses extremely advanced technology, such as virtual reality and energy generators in its volcano lair.