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This article is from the James Bond FAQ, by Michael Reed reed55@core.com with numerous contributions by
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51 What other "00" agents are mentioned? (James Bond)
In the James Bond films, a number of 00 agents have been depicted over the
years:
002 - Bill Fairbanks, assassinated in Beirut by Francisco Scaramanga in 1969
("The Man With The Golden Gun"); replaced by another agent who is quickly
captured during a training mission at Gibraltar ("The Living Daylights")
003 - Found dead in the Siberian ice ("A View To A Kill")
004 - Assassinated during a training mission at Gibraltar ("The Living
Daylights")
006 - Alec Trevelyan, listed dead by MI6 at the hands of Soviet Colonel
Ourumov during a mission with 007 to blow-up a Soviet nerve gas factory...at
least for a while ("GoldenEye")
008 - Bond's replacement, should he be unable to complete his mission
("Goldfinger" and "The Living Daylights")
009 - Assassinated in West Berlin by a circus knife-thrower after stealing a
Faberge egg ("Octopussy"); a new 009 was named as the man who put the bullet
in Renard's head ("The World Is Not Enough")
0012 - Technically unnamed in the film, the novelization of "The World Is
Not Enough" has Bond avenging his death in the opening scene. On screen he
is simply referred to as an MI6 agent
In addition, the movie "Thunderball" has Moneypenny state the "every
Double-O man in Europe" is in the conference room, and Bond arrives as the
ninth agent to be briefed. Whether this means that the agents are 001
through 009 or not is never stated, as it COULD be 002 through 0010, for
instance. And perhaps we should consider that some Double-0's were not in
Europe and missed the meeting. Sharp eyes also could not miss the moment in
"The World Is Not Enough" when Moneypenny distributes assignment folders to
other agents, one of which is a woman.
While Miranda Frost in "Die Another Day" is an MI6 agent, it is never stated
she is a "Double-O", and we only learn that her experience was three years
in cryptography before the Graves' assignment.
For the novels according to Ian Fleming, James Bond was originally the
senior member of only three agents in the Section. At the time of the
"Moonraker" mission, 008 (known only as 'Bill') had just escaped from East
Berlin, while 0011 had vanished in Singapore just two months before.
Although 008 surfaced again in "Goldfinger" (listed as Bond's replacement,
should he have failed), 0011 was never heard from again. 009 was briefly
mentioned in "Thunderball". In "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", Bond was
even odds to "get" Mary Goodnight first with an ex-Royal Marine Commando who
was 006, making Fleming's total of 00 agents -- including 007 -- five.
Kingsley Amis' "Colonel Sun" noted that the head of station G in Athens had
served as "005" before "an eye defect had begun to impair his ability with
firearms." (Submitted by Donal Rogers <donalrogers@iolfree.ie>)
In "Zero Minus Ten" Raymond Benson includes a scene with the "Single-O's"
who are working toward a "00" classification.
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