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SPECTRE hierarchy question

Dr_RobertsDr_Roberts
edited June 2014 in Literary 007 Posts: 13
I was wondering something about the hierarchy of the literary SPECTRE, as described in Thunderball. Fleming states that the SPECTRE executives, bar Blofeld and the two scientists, were composed of three men each from six of the world's greatest criminal organizations, which are: SMERSH, the Gestapo, the Mafia, the Unione Corse, the Communist Yugoslavian secret police, and... KRYSTAL, an enormous Turkish drug-smuggling ring. The first five are obviously historical, but I have never been able to find anything on KRYSTAL. Certainly an organization with influence rivaling that of the first five would be documented somewhere on the Internet, right? And yet, zip. So, that's my question. Was KRYSTAL a historical organization, or did Fleming make it up?

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