I read a few of the earlier Bond books; there the antagonistic organization isn’t Spectre but the actual WW2 era Soviet counter-intelligence org SMERSH, whose n

I read a few of the earlier Bond books; there the antagonistic organization isn’t Spectre but the actual WW2 era Soviet counter-intelligence org SMERSH, whose name is short-hand for “Death to Spies”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH