Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "SMERSH is a fictional Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis. SMERSH is the acronym of Spetsyalnye MEtody Razoblacheniya SHpyonov, meaning \"Special Methods of Spy Detection\", (in Russian Cyrillic СМЕРШ: Специальные Методы Разоблaчения Шпионов).Fleming's version of SMERSH supposedly was modelled upon the real SMERSH organisation, which existed 1943-1946 (the real name is a portmanteau of two Russian words: \"SMERt' SHpionam\" [СМЕРть Шпионам, Směrť Špionam] meaning \"Death to Spies\"). However, the novels portray SMERSH as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organisation, much more resembling the real-life KGB, which aims its operatives abroad in subversion of the West, with the additional goal of killing Western spies, particularly James Bond of SIS. SMERSH's headquarters are variously stated to be in Leningrad or in Moscow, Soviet Union.In the Bond film series, SMERSH is usually replaced with SPECTRE – a global terrorist organisation."@en }
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- SMERSH_(James_Bond) abstract "SMERSH is a fictional Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis. SMERSH is the acronym of Spetsyalnye MEtody Razoblacheniya SHpyonov, meaning \"Special Methods of Spy Detection\", (in Russian Cyrillic СМЕРШ: Специальные Методы Разоблaчения Шпионов).Fleming's version of SMERSH supposedly was modelled upon the real SMERSH organisation, which existed 1943-1946 (the real name is a portmanteau of two Russian words: \"SMERt' SHpionam\" [СМЕРть Шпионам, Směrť Špionam] meaning \"Death to Spies\"). However, the novels portray SMERSH as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organisation, much more resembling the real-life KGB, which aims its operatives abroad in subversion of the West, with the additional goal of killing Western spies, particularly James Bond of SIS. SMERSH's headquarters are variously stated to be in Leningrad or in Moscow, Soviet Union.In the Bond film series, SMERSH is usually replaced with SPECTRE – a global terrorist organisation.".