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Operation Thunderball

A military operation plan (also called a war plan before World War II) is a formal plan for military armed forces, their military organizations and units to conduct operations, as drawn up by commanders within the combat operations process in achieving objectives before or during a conflict. In the James Bond franchise there have been numerous operation plans devised by both the protagonists and antagonists, often having codenames. What follows is a comprehensive list of operations and projects arranged in alphabetical order.

Spoiler warning: This article contains spoilers! Plot and/or ending details follow.


List of Operations and Projects[]

Name Planner Description Outcome Appearance
Bedlam Secret Intelligence Service The general pursuit of the fugitive Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Closed unconcluded; secretly replaced with Operation Corona. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel, film)
Blizzard Children Of The Last Days COLD
Black Box Secret Intelligence Service 007 assigned to Japan to acquire (and, initially, destroy) of a digital trove of pirated British data and terminate those involved. Success; 007 utilized an EMP device to erase the contents of the storage device. Black Box
Cream Cake Secret Intelligence Service An early-1980s SIS honeytrap operation conducted in East Germany, in retaliation for similar KGB operations in the West. The targets were senior HVA and attached KGB officers. Success; Cream Cake was one of SIS's most effective operations in years. It was abruptly discovered and all operatives successfully exfiltrated to Britain. No Deals, Mr. Bond
Corona Secret Intelligence Service James Bond must disguise himself as genealogist Sir Hillary Bray and tempt Blofeld out of Switzerland, for extraction by SIS. Failed; 007's cover is compromised and he is forced to escape from Blofeld's base of operations in the Alps. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel, film)
Cowslip Secret Intelligence Service In 1986, 007 and 006 were assigned to infiltrate and destroy a secret Soviet chemical weapons facility near Arkhangelsk, Russia. Success; the facility is destroyed, but at the cost of losing 006, who stages his own death. GoldenEye (novelization)
Curve Secret Intelligence Service, Central Intelligence Agency --; -- Brokenclaw
Extase Secret Intelligence Service James Bond is assigned sniper duty to help British agent 272 escape from East Berlin. Bond's duty is to safeguard his crossing into West Berlin by eliminating a top KGB assassin codenamed "Trigger" who has been dispatched to kill 272. Success; Bond adjusts his aim at the last moment and shoots Trigger's rifle instead of killing her allowing 272 to reach safety "The Living Daylights" (book)
Gehenna Severan Hydt An international blackmail and extortion scheme to steal and assemble classified information via clandestine scanners built into industrial waste-shredders. Failure; the scheme was sabotaged by the intervention of 007. Carte Blanche
Grand Slam Auric Goldfinger To infiltrate Fort Knox by poisoning nearby US Military personnel with deadly Nerve Poison (waterborne in the novel, airborne in the film) and to break into the bullion depository in a bid to increase Goldfinger's net worth (by either stealing or irradiating the bullion, in the novel and film respectively).

Failure; The U.S. military are alerted to the scheme (by 007 in the novel and Pussy Galore in the film); engaging and defeating Auric's forces.

Goldfinger (novel, film)
Head Hunt SPECTRE A competition to bring James Bond's head to SPECTRE on a silver charger. Open to any bona fide criminal, terrorist, or intelligence agency, there was a time limit of 3 months and only one member of each agency could enter. The winner was to receive ten million Swiss francs. Failure; prior to execution 007 escaped from his incarceration at their base of operations at Shark Island, Key West and sabotaged Colonel Tamil Rahani's electric hospital bed with an explosive device. Rahani was killed along with his entourage. Nobody Lives for Ever
Heavenly Wolf (AKA "project HOUND") SPECTRE A scheme to penetrate NORAD Headquarters using hypnotic ice-cream, and steal computer tapes related to the U.S. Space Wolves satellites. Failure; while being hypnotically programmed by SPECTRE to carry out the operation, 007 is given an antidote and recovers during the raid, rallying the base staff. For Special Services
Heracles Secret Intelligence Service Clandestine development of a virus-like nanoweapon for the targeted assassination of threats. Failure; Heracles was stolen by SPECTRE, its lead scientist abducted and facility destroyed. Subsequently taken by Lyutsifer Safin and mass-manufactured. No Time to Die
Icebreaker National Socialist Action Army Ostensibly a joint operation by Soviet, American, British and Israeli intelligence agencies to rout out a Far-Right terrorist group based in Finland, the NSAA. In reality a scheme by the NSAA and KGB agent Koyla Mosolov to lure James Bond into Russia and abduct him. Failure; while initially successful, 007 escaped his captors with the help of deep-cover SUPO agent Paula Vacker. Mosolov betrayed the NSAA and wiped out their HQ, before eventually being killed by 007. Icebreaker
Incident Twenty Felicity Willing (NOAH/IOAH) British designation for a scheme by hunger-broker, Felicity Willing. The Sudanese (funded by China) paid her to bribe Eritrea, Uganda and Ethiopia with food relief in exchange for providing the military force to help them subdue a break away faction. Its oil resources would end up with China, rather than Britain. Failure; 007 and the South African Police Service set up Willing, extracting a confession and details of the plot. The food was intercepted and distributed by a legitimate group. Willing was taken to a black site for interrogation. Carte Blanche
Landsea '89 NATO An air, land and sea wargame between two factions (Red Side representing Soviet forces and Blue Side representing NATO) held during January of 1989. Unknown; the wargame was partially interrupted by the terrorist organisation BAST. Win, Lose or Die
Mainstrike Max Zorin To destroy Zorin's microchip competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a super-earthquake in both the San Andreas and Hayward Faults; by flooding them both with water from the San Andreas Lake and then breaking the geological lock that forbade both faults from moving simultaneously.

Failure; James Bond infiltrates the operation at Main Strike Mine. Zorin is betrayed by May Day, who self sacrificially removes the geological lock-breaking bomb from the fault located under the mine.

A View to a Kill (film)
Meltdown Dr. Anton Murik Stage a series of terrorist attacks at six nuclear power plants across the world, holding them ransom for cut gem diamonds worth fifty billion dollars; discrediting his opponents and creating a market for his "safer" reactor technology. Failure; James Bond escaped on-board Murik's airborne control-center and transmitted the stand-down codes to the doctor's terrorist associates. Licence Renewed
Nightfire Rafael Drake To forcefully achieve globalisation. Nation states to be replaced by Phoenix International. Governments to be replaced with a single board of directors. Resistance would be crushed by threat of Drake's ballistic missiles. His command centre would be the U.S. Space Defense Platform. Failure; 007 destroys Drake's stockpiled nuclear weapons and prevents his attempt to hijack the Space Platform. Nightfire
Orchid Hugo Drax Drax plans to wipe out humanity from space, via a satellite system that would release an aerosol form of a poisonous orchid into the mesosphere.

Failure; Bond and Holly Goodhead infiltrate the station and disable its radar-jamming systems, making it visible to the Superpowers. U.S. space marines board the station and destroy it in a firefight. The remaining launched satellite is pursued and destroyed by 007.

Moonraker (film)
SeaFire Maxwell Tarn A practical demonstration of a prototype automatic anti-oil pollution system (AAOPS) off the north coast of Puerto Rico. An old U-Boat would torpedo an oil tanker - creating a natural disaster which the equipment would neutralize. Failure; Knowing that the AAOPS was incapable of preventing the ecological catastrophe, 007 boarded and sabotaged the submarine with explosives before it could fire on the tanker. Tarn was killed shortly afterward during a joint SAS/Two Zeros raid. SeaFire
Seahawk Secret Intelligence Service A c.1982 mission led by 007 to exfiltrate two SIS-affiliated honeytraps from East Germany by Trafalgar Class nuclear submarine. Success; Despite interception by a patrol hydrofoil and loss of one SBS man, the remaining two operatives successfully returned to the submarine. No Deals, Mr. Bond
Smersh Plan B Smersh A conspiracy to destroy the reputation of their celibate, upstanding nemesis, Sir James Bond. Failure; Despite numerous attempts on both the life and reputation of Sir James, the spy evaded Smersh's scheming with the assistance of one of their turned agents, Mimi. Casino Royale (1967 film)
Snow-Blind Nazi Germany A false-flag operation to smear the Soviet Union for the assassination of King George V by manipulating a communist cell into planting a fertilizer bomb under Eton College's chapel during the Fourth of June. Failure; through a series of coincidences, James Bond defuses the bomb and is eventually captured by the villain responsible - Dr. Perseus Friend. Friend is killed during an OGPU raid on his Austrian castle. By Royal Command
Steel Cartridge Soviet Union A major active measure by KGB/SVR to assassinate MI6 and CIA agents and local assets, so that the extent of Russian infiltration would not be learnt, in attempt to promote détente during fall of Soviet Union and improve relations with the West. Unknown; The last Steel Cartridge targeted killings occurred late ’80s or early ’90s. Andrew Bond and his intelligence operative wife, Monique, were victims of the operation in 1990. Carte Blanche
Stewards' Meeting Margaret Thatcher, George H. W. Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev A secret summit held aboard HMS Invincible during the Landsea '89 war game. Unknown; all three dignitaries were incapacitated by the terrorist group BAST during the meeting. Win, Lose or Die
Tears of Allah, The SPECTRE An extortion scheme headed by SPECTRE's Maximillian Largo involving the theft of two NATO atomic warheads. They hold the world to ransom in exchange for not destroying Washington D.C. and Ethiopian oil fields. Failure; 007 tracks the warhead to an aquatic Ethiopian cave system and prevents its detonation with the help of Felix Leiter and the U.S. Navy. SPECTRE's forces are routed and Largo is killed by his mistress. Never Say Never Again (film)
Thunderball Secret Intelligence Service All 00 operatives dispatched to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE, which holds the world to ransom in exchange for not destroying an unspecified major city in either the United Kingdom or the United States. Success; through a series of coincidences, 007 tracks the bombs to the Bahamas and with the aid of Domino, Felix Leiter and the U.S. military, eliminates SPECTRE operative, Emilio Largo. Thunderball (novel, film)
Tierra Project Quantum A scheme by Dominic Greene to establish political and financial dominance of Bolivia by illicitly buying up the rights to their limited water supply, gaining a monopoly, and installing an amenable puppet dictator. Failure; Greene's operation is discovered and sabotaged by a vengeful Bond before Medrano can be installed in government. Greene is interrogated by 007 and is later executed by his own organization. Quantum of Solace (film)
Trove Secret Intelligence Service 009 and subsequently 007 are assigned to investigate the appearance of forged Russian treasures on the British antiques market; suspecting a Soviet scheme to raise currency for covert operations abroad or for payoffs. Success; 007 attends an auction at Sotheby's in London and follows the evidence to a rogue Soviet general who is stealing jewelry and relics from the Soviet government. Octopussy (film)
Undertow Secret Intelligence Service A British operation to recover or destroy the Automatic Targeting Attack Communicator (ATAC), a system used by the M.O.D. to co-ordinate the Royal Navy's fleet of Polaris submarines. After the sinking of a British spy ship equipped with ATAC, both the British and the Soviets dispatch operatives. Following the assassination of the British operative, 007 is sent to investigate. Success; 007 prevents Soviet contact Aris Kristatos - the man responsible for sinking the St. Georges - from giving the ATAC to General Gogol of the KGB. Bond subsequently destroys it by throwing it from the top of St. Cyril's Monastery. For Your Eyes Only (film)

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