OCTOPUS is a fictional organisation in the video game From Russia with Love. It resembles and replaces the criminal organisation SPECTRE from the James Bond universe which starred in many films.

The organisation has very few important characters and lacks a leader to head them. There are only a few key characters:

• Red Grant is OCTOPUS’s chief assassin and also starred in the film. He kills his victims by choking them with dispersible wire from his watch.
• Eva Adara is one of Red Grant’s key hands. She is a pilot and was killed while sitting in a parked fighter jet being bombarded with missiles by 007.
• Rosa Klebb worked for the KGB but secretly slipped over to OCTOPUS. She does not play a major role in the organisation apart from luring Tatiana Romanova to help her to steal the Lektor, a Russian decoding device.

Headquarters: OCTOPUS has a big headquarter inside a volcano, also the same as SPECTRE’s in You Only Live Twice. It contains a cable car which takes villains to various “ports”. It also contains a missile silo, runway, helipad and a central control room. The complex is protected by a vast army armed with automatics, rockets and machine guns.

See also:

• Organisations