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SMERSH agents

Notable villains in the Bond novels who were SMERSH agents include:

Anya amasova, aka agent XXX, was a member of Otdyel IV in the film novelisation of The Spy Who Loved Me.
  • Le Chiffre: Le Chiffre is the villain in Casino Royale. He is paymaster of the “Syndicat des Ouvriers d’Alsace”, a SMERSH-controlled trade union.
  • Adolph Gettler: A SMERSH agent who shadowed Bond and Vesper Lynd while they were on French holiday in Casino Royale. He is identifiable by his eyepatch, screwed in like a monocle. His real name is unknown, but he posed as a Swiss wristwatch salesman named Adolph Gettler.
  • Mr Big: Mr Big is the villain in the novel Live and Let Die. He is head of the “Black Widow Voodoo Cult”, and, according to M, is one of the most powerful living criminals in the world.
  • Auric Goldfinger: The villain in Goldfinger. He is SMERSH’s treasurer, yet also a jeweller, metallurgist, and smuggler. In the film, though an international Communist, he has no apparent SMERSH affiliation.
  • Colonel Rosa Klebb: Head of Otdyel II, the SMERSH torture and death department in the novel From Russia with Love. She hires Corporal Tatiana Romanova as lure for James Bond in Istanbul, where he would be killed and disgraced before the intelligence community. Ultimately, she fails and René Mathis captures her. In the film, Klebb, defected from SMERSH to SPECTRE. She is shot in the back by Romanova, who is in love with Bond.
  • Donovan “Red” Grant: In the novel, he is Chief executioner of SMERSH; originally a British soldier during World War II, he defected to the USSR. In the film From Russia with Love, working under Rosa Klebb makes him a SPECTRE agent.
  • Colonel-General Grubozaboyshikov: He was selected head of SMERSH after Lavrenty Beria’s death, in the From Russia with Love novel. He is one of many SMERSH personnel conspiring to kill and disgrace James Bond.
  • Colonel Tov Kronsteen: He is planning department head for SMERSH in the From Russia with Love novel; (his name, Tov, is Jewish). He was a chess expert and the champion of Moscow for two years running. During the championship game for his third year, SMERSH summoned him to plan Bond’s killing and discrediting. In the film, Kronsteen works for SPECTRE, and is tasked with planning Bond’s killing and disgrace for killing Dr Julius No. Ultimately, he fails and is murdered at Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s behest.
  • Colonel Niktin: Heads the Soviet Secret Service (MGB, KGB post-1953) in From Russia with Love. Later in the The Spy Who Loved Me film novelisation he is promoted to Colonel-General and is head of SMERSH; he is not in the film, and is replaced by General Gogol who is head of KGB.
  • Lieutenant-General Slavin: Slavin was the head of the intelligence department for the General Staff of the Army (GRU). He was one of many SMERSH personnel who conspired to kill and disgrace James Bond.
  • Lieutenant-General Vozdvishensky: Is head of RUMID, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs intelligence department. He is one of many SMERSH personnel who conspire against James Bond.
  • Sergei Borzov: Sergei was a member of Otdyel II, the operations and executions branch of SMERSH in the film novelisation of The Spy Who Loved Me, but was never mentioned as a member in the actual film. Borzov was the romantic love interest of agent XXX before being killed by James Bond in the opening teaser.
  • Anya Amasova: Anya, aka agent XXX, was a member of Otdyel IV in the film novelisation of The Spy Who Loved Me.
  • Kolya Mosolov: Mosolov is a KGB agent who is a member of the Icebreaker team in the novel Icebreaker. He is discovered to have planned the entire Icebreaker team in coordination with von Glöda. The two have a deal in which Mosolov would betray his country and sell arms to von Glöda in exchange for the capture of secret agent 007. Mosolov being not only an agent of the KGB, but also an agent working within “Department V” (formerly SMERSH). Mosolov believes that von Glöda will not succeed and is merely going along with the deal for the time being in order to capture Bond for the Soviets.
  • General Konstantin Nikolaevich Chernov: Codenamed “Blackfriar”, Chernov (also known as Koyla Chernov) is the Chief Investigating Officer of Department Eight, Directorate S (formerly SMERSH). He appears in John Gardner’s No Deals, Mr Bond as the villain who is systematically targeting former members of a secret operation in East Germany.
 
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