SPECTRE SPECTRE SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a fictional organization featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games. Led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the international organization first formally appeared in the novel "Thunderball" (1961) and in the film "Dr. No" (1962). 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 organization are a clear sign of
SPECTRE higher figure Blofeld had anticipated. The killing of Helga Brandt in "You Only Live Twice", for failing to kill James Bond, horrifies even visiting Red Chinese agents; she was eaten by Blofeld's piranhas. In the original Bond novel series, SPECTRE's first and last appearance as a worldwide power is in the novel "Thunderball", published in 1961. In the novel, SPECTRE, headed by Blofeld, attempts to conduct nuclear blackmail against NATO. 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. In "On