To readers of Ian Fleming’s wildly popular James Bond spy thrillers, SMERSH was an omnipotent - and murderous - arm of Soviet intelligence, part of the network later known as the KGB. Fleming introduced SMERSH in his inaugural work, “Casino Royale,” published in 1953, and over the years credited the organization with such exploits as the murder of Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1940.
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