In Ian Fleming's James Bond novelles an the derived films, the 00 Section o MI6 is conseedered the secret service's elite. A 00 (for ordinar rade ""Double O"" an denoted in Fleming's novelles bi the letters ""OO"" rather than the digits ""00"") is a field augent that houds a leecence tae kill in the field, at his or her merciment, tae throu ony meession. The novelle Moonraker estaiblishes that the section by-ordinar has three augents concurrently; the film series, beginnin wi Thunderball, estaiblishes the nummer o 00 augents at a meenimum o 9, wi the likeliheid o maire.