SPECTRE Irma Bunt, Blofeld's assistant, in his short story "Blast From the Past", which is a sequel to "You Only Live Twice". In the Eon Productions James Bond series, which began in 1962 with "Dr. No", SPECTRE plays a more prominent role. The organisation is first mentioned in "Dr. No" as the organisation for which Dr. No works. This was changed from Fleming's novels, which had Dr. No working for the USSR. 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"
Spectre (song) recorded the theme for the upcoming James Bond film "Spectre", released later that year. The bookmaker William Hill suspended bets after a customer placed £15,000 at ten-to-one odds on Radiohead. A William Hill spokesperson said: "There seem to be all kinds of rumours and the plot has had more twists and turns than a classic Bond tale, but surely nobody risks £15,000 on a hunch." Radiohead submitted "Man of War", a song they had written in the 1990s and which singer Thom Yorke once described as a "homage to Bond themes". The "Spectre" production team liked the song, but rejected