SMERSH

Spetsyalnye MEtody Razoblacheniya SHpyonov (Russian for Special Methods Of Spy Detection), better known as SMERSH, is a Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Felming's early James Bond Novels, introduced in the first novel Casion Royale. Many of the villains from the novels were affiliated with the organization, including Le Chiffre, Mr. Big, and Auric Goldfinger. Starting with the novel Thunderball, after Fleming predicted that the Cold War might end in two years time and decided that a more politically neutral villain was necesarry, and thus SMERSH was replaced by the terrorist organisation SPECTRE.