KGB-files in 2009?

Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
When Bond calls back to MI6 HQ to find out who Dominic Greene is. Tanner scans some computer files, and if I'm not mistaken he says "Scanning KGB files". Should think the old KGB-files from way back in 1991 are a bit outdated and possibly not even on computer! Belarus stil has KGB, but perhaps he ment FSB or SVR?

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  • thesecretagentthesecretagent CornwallPosts: 2,151MI6 Agent
    What's in a name? Some call it FSB (Bureau) and some call it FSD (Directorate) but it's still the KGB behind the door. MI6 know that.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    "Governments come and go, the lies stay the same"
    Yes, I know. But I don't buy that they put that line in because they wanted to show that MI6 regards SVR/FSB and KGB to be just "same ****, new wrapping." I think it's just the scriptwriters being sloppy.
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,418Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    "Governments come and go, the lies stay the same"
    Yes, I know. But I don't buy that they put that line in because they wanted to show that MI6 regards SVR/FSB and KGB to be just "same ****, new wrapping." I think it's just the scriptwriters being sloppy.

    Could be....but I think it's more likely that the general cinema-going public know whom the KGB is/was....most probably wouldn't know whom the FSB or FSD or SVR would be.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    Could be .... but then it would be a better solution to have Tanner say: "Scanning russian secret service files."
  • thesecretagentthesecretagent CornwallPosts: 2,151MI6 Agent
    That would have been a better solution. It is interesting to note that most cinema goers would know KGB but would not know FSB/FSD.
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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,418Chief of Staff
    Number24 wrote:
    Could be .... but then it would be a better solution to have Tanner say: "Scanning russian secret service files."

    Good point...perhaps Kinnear was paid by the word ? :))
    YNWA 97
  • Thunderbird 2Thunderbird 2 East of Cardiff, Wales.Posts: 2,774MI6 Agent
    Sir Miles wrote:
    Number24 wrote:
    Could be .... but then it would be a better solution to have Tanner say: "Scanning russian secret service files."

    Good point...perhaps Kinnear was paid by the word ? :))


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