course of alphabet soup. There was never a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (The Sp ecial E xecutive for C ounter-Intelligence, T errorism, R evenge, and E xtortion) or SMERSH (Shmiert Spionem--"Death to Spies") anymore, but that didn't stop Ian Fleming. SMERSH had been an assassination squad in the KGB , but was disbanded after