Number Eleven was the code number of a unidentified operative and board member of the secretive criminal organisation, SPECTRE. A minor antagonist portrayed by the late Canadian actor, Murray Kash, he appeared briefly in the 1965 James Bond film, Thunderball. To date, across the franchise as a whole, there have been four individuals who have held the number "11".
Biography[]
Number Eleven was present at the SPECTRE cabinet meeting in Paris and was the fourth agent to give his report to the Board and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. According to his report, both he and Number Nine were involved in the production and distribution of heroin out of Red China and smuggling into the United States. The operation netted $2,300,000; considerably less than the organisation had expected, causing Blofeld to demand a justification for Number 11's substandard performance. The visibly nervous operative claimed that there were low profit margins in the American black market due to heavy competition from Latin American drug cartels. Blofeld responded that he had anticipated such a setback, and accused a member of embezzlement. He gave Number Eleven one last chance to state if he was being forthright in his income statements, to which he nervously responded "To the penny, Number One". Blofeld proceeded to execute Number Nine by electrocution; a commonly employed strategy of SPECTRE, casting a glaring accusation on someone else to take the heat off the guilty party, then punishing the perpetrator at the last moment.
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- The scene was spoofed in the opening scene of Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. In this case the Blofeld parody Dr. Evil is angry at the members for their failure to kill the protagonist Austin Powers, and pushes buttons that sends their chairs backwards into a flaming pit.
- It is unknown what happened to this agent, but the number Eleven was later assumed by SPECTRE operative Helga Brandt in You Only Live Twice, suggesting the male Number 11 could have died prior to the events of You Only Live Twice. Another possibility is that with the death of Number 9 this caused Number 11 to be "promoted" in SPECTRE by being granted a lower number, and as such was Brandt's predecessor.
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