007
This was the name of the girl that Bond really liked that died. This really got to Bond and plays a big part in the rest of his story.
What is Vesper Lynd?
This U.S. intelligence agency is responsible for signals intelligence and codebreaking.
What is the National Security Agency (NSA)?
This U.S. Army analyst leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010.
Who is Chelsea Manning?
Malware that disguises itself as legitimate software is known as this.
What is (a) Trojan?
The CIA was created largely as a successor to this WWII intelligence organization.
What is the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)?
This is Bond’s ancestral home which is located in this country.
What is Skyfall (Lodge) in Scotland?
France’s external intelligence service, reorganized in 1982, is known by this acronym. (Bonus brownie points if you say it in the country's accent)
What is the DGSE?
This former KGB officer defected to Britain and later became a key MI6 source.
Who is Oleg Gordievsky?
Russia’s cyberattack on this country's power grid in 2015 marked the first confirmed cyber-induced blackout.
What is Ukraine?
Operation Ajax (1953) helped overthrow Mohammad Mossadegh, the elected leader of this country.
What is Iran?
Bond is presumed dead after being shot during a mission by this agent who is also a part of MI5.
Eve Moneypenny
This Russian intelligence agency is the primary successor to the KGB’s foreign intelligence directorate.
What is the SVR?
This American CIA officer spied for the Soviet Union and Russia for nearly a decade before his arrest in 1994.
Who is Aldrich Ames?
This 2010 cyberweapon targeted Iranian nuclear centrifuges.
What is Stuxnet?
What ex-CIA director famously said in a FOX interview after being asked if "we still meddle in other countries' elections?" that we do, "only for a very good cause." This clip went viral.
James Woolsey
The organization responsible for Vesper’s betrayal, Dominic Greene’s plot, and Blofeld’s rise is ultimately revealed as this.
What is Spectre?
India’s foreign intelligence agency, founded in 1968, is known by this three-letter acronym.
What is RAW (Research and Analysis Wing)?
This FBI agent sold secrets to the USSR for over 15 years, making him one of the most damaging moles in U.S. history.
Who is Robert Hanssen?
This Israeli-developed spyware has been linked to surveillance of journalists and dissidents.
What is Pegasus?
CIA aid was funneled to Afghanistan through this country after the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan.
What is Pakistan? (fun fact: this is how the Taliban was created. Ask JM for more deets (she wrote a paper about this and thinks it's super cool))
This is the name of the bioweapon in No Time to Die which Bond ultimately dies to defeat/destroy.
What is Heracles?
This intelligence-sharing alliance expanded beyond Five Eyes to include France, Germany, and others.
What is the Nine Eyes or Fourteen Eyes alliance?
This Cold War spy ring recruited at Cambridge University passed secrets to the Soviet Union for decades.
What is the Cambridge Five?
The CIA’s cyber capabilities were publicly exposed in 2017 through leaks known as this.
What is Vault 7?
The CIA assisted this country in Southern Africa in a Cold War proxy war until Congress forced aid to end.
South Africa (Angola/Border War) (fun fact: JM's dad fought in this war)