James Bond as an American

[Kapitalist]

In the 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale, Bond was an American secret agent named Jimmy Bond.

Here's a modern take on that:

Jim Bond is the son of Andrew Bond and Monique Delacroix Bond. His Scottish-American father was a senior accounting manager for General Dynamics, while his mother was originally from Gatineau, Quebec. When Bond was eleven years old, his parents died in a climbing tragedy while attempting to scale north-east ridge of the Aiguille de la Persévérance. After their deaths, he was homeschooled by his aunt and guardian, Charmain Bond of Utica, New York.

From age 14 to 15, Bond attended Phillips Academy preparatory school until "trouble" with one of the maids. He then transferred to his father's alma mater, New York Military Academy. While there he won numerous athletic competitions and twice boxed for the school as a light weight. He also formed an intermural judo league. Throughout his teens, he spent time studying both climbing and skiing with local Austrian instructor Hannes Oberhauser during term breaks at NYMA. Bond's one strong relationship, this friendship ended when Oberhauser disappeared mysteriously. Bond considered Oberhauser a second father.

After graduating from New York Military Academy, Bond began attending the United States Naval Academy. While there, Bond excelled in all areas of training. Bond matriculated from his coursework at the Naval Academy with passable marks. However, whilst excelling at athletic competitions, strategic operations, and counter-intelligence courses, his unconventional approach to his education, his diffident attitude to some of his superiors, and a lack of respect for curfew drew him a few demerits. He graduated from the Naval Academy with a bachelor's degree in Economics. Sadly, Bond lost his one surviving close relative, his aunt Charmain Bond, a few weeks after graduation.

While at the Academy, Bond decided that he wanted to be a Navy SEAL. Soon after his commission as an Ensign, he began Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Training, which was followed by basic parachute training at the Army Airborne School at Fort Benning. He then moved on to SEAL Qualification Training. Following his completion of SQT, Bond was placed on board SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team One where he earned his SEAL Trident and served as an assistant platoon commander. For his performance with SDVT-1, Bond earned the Navy Commendation Medal. Following that, he was assigned to SEAL Team 3 as a platoon commander. While with that SEAL Team, his actions during a combat mission earned him the Silver Star. Bond then spent a year of shore duty on a staff assignment at Special Operations Central Command, where he assisted in the operational planning of SDV missions.

After six years as a Navy officer, Bond retired from the U.S. Navy with numerous commendations and was accepted into the Central Intelligence Agency. Before Bond could join the Agency, he had to go through background checks, take the entrance exam, and go through a series of interviews and psychological tests. Upon passing the entrance and psychological examinations, Bond was accepted as a "Career Trainee." After an orientation period, he was sent to the CIA Special Training Center - "The Farm," Camp Peary for intensive operational training. There, he went through the Basic Operations Course, which trained him in so-called "operational intelligence" or "tradecraft" skills. This means Bond was taught to become a master in the finer points of espionage - everything from recruiting foreign assets to detecting surveillance to clandestine communications methods as well as infiltration and exfiltration techniques. He was also given the know-how to kill with a variety of weapons or none at all and was also trained for night parachuting, clandestine photography, tactical high speed emergency driving, rappelling from helicopters, and dry and wet demolition. While at The Farm, Bond received exceptionally high marks for physical endurance, logic, and psychological ops exercises.

After training, Bond was given non-official cover status; that is he became an operations officer without any official connection to the CIA and therefore without diplomatic immunity if ever caught in an act of espionage. His cover was that of a security consultant for a private military company. While his primary work was recruiting foreign agents and interrogating captured enemy agents; he was also involved in translating communiqués and worked back-channel sources to aid in solving a minor crisis between the U.S. and China. Two years into his career with the CIA, Bond transferred to the Special Operations Group of the Special Activities Division. As a paramilitary operations officer, Bond's clandestine and covert duties took him around the world. He took part in paramilitary interdiction efforts against drug smuggling between Burma and the United States (resulting in a letter of recommendation from his superior) and four days of black ops reconnaissance into North Korea, penetrating military compounds. Bond worked with members of a DIA Strategic Support Team to penetrate and gain intelligence on Iranian military and suspected unconventional weapons installations. He also saw covert action in the Philippines, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Colombia, Pakistan, and the Republic of Georgia. After three years in the Special Activities Division, Bond was recruited into a newly-established and highly unconventional CIA sub-agency called the Optimum Operations Branch.

[Kapitalist]

The OO Branch operates in ultra secrecy, independent of the official U.S. government national security apparatus and circumvents the leviathan of politics and gets around impediments like the executive order banning assassinations. It fronts as "Universal Exports", a trader in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, though, it does little in the way of public business and does not have any clients. Located in suburban Maryland on a direct line of sight from the NSA headquarters and the CIA headquarters, the OO Branch is regularly provided with the encryption equipment that enables it to intercept and decipher communications between the two agencies. Its personnel then take active data, perform their own analysis, and when action needs to be taken but conventional methods wouldn't work, they initiate a covert op.

As a commodities trader, and as a currency arbitrageur, Universal Exports does some of its business anonymously through foreign banks, all of which like having large cash accounts, and none of which are overly fastidious about where the money comes from, so long as it is not overtly dirty. It is just another way of keeping outside the system. The OO Branch also uses the communications intercept to aid in making a profit. When the NSA does something such as pays attention to what the big central banks are doing, the OO Branch is ideally located to take advantage of the signals intelligence they gather and cross-deck to the CIA. This gives Universal Exports' currency-trading troops the best sort of insider information, which enables the company to make a ton of long-term money without anybody really noticing. It does that by not attracting investors. That activity funds the covert work of the OO Branch and makes it a truly self-funding CIA branch outside the federal budget process and therefore with absolutely no paper trail connecting it the U.S. government. In fact, there is not a single document in the possession of any government employee that has a single word about the OO Branch.

The missions to which this covert unit is typically tasked with handling are either too sensitive or too risky for traditional entities such as the regular CIA or special forces. Since the OO Branch has no provable ties to the U.S. government, it's authorized to work outside the boundaries of international treaties. Once their orders have been given, there are no required procedures for the fulfillment of the mission. They can use whatever means they deem necessary. Success is all that matters. This unconventional status allows its operatives (known as "OO agents") to disregard any law, agreement, or framework of ethical behavior in order to accomplish a mission. For example, OO agents are essentially entrusted with a license to kill -- the authorization to, at their own discretion, commit acts that might be otherwise considered murder in order to complete their missions, without having to seek permission from headquarters first. They may even may deploy on U.S. soil and may even spy on other U.S. government agencies. However, if a OO agent were to ever be captured or killed, the U.S. government would disavow them.

Bond was given the cover legend of a "security and risk management coordinator" for Universal Exports. He was also given the code number "OO7" and then tasked with killing two people. The first was in New York – a cryptologist who had cracked a CIA code and was attempting to sell it to the highest bidder. The assignment was on the thirty-sixth floor of the RCA building in the Rockefeller center. Bond took a room on the fortieth floor of the next-door skyscraper where he could look across the street into his room and see him working. Then he and a fellow OO agent sat for several hours waiting for their chance. The other agent shot at the cryptologist a second before Bond. His job was only to blast a hole through the windows so that Bond could shoot the man through it. Bond did exactly that, shooting immediately after the other agent, through the hole he had made. Even though it was three hundred yards away, he got the cryptologist in the mouth as he turned to gape at the broken window. The other person Bond had to kill was a CIA analyst in Karachi who was selling secrets from within the agency. He'd managed to get two CIA officers captured and killed. For various reasons it had to be an absolutely silent job. Bond chose the bedroom of the traitor's apartment and stabbed him to death after a brief hand-to-hand fight.

On his next mission as Agent OO7, Bond and another OO agent named Carter worked cooperatively in an attempt to capture international bomb-maker, Molloka. At a mongoose/cobra fight in Madagascar, Bond and Carter conducted surveillance on Molloka but, due to a foolish mistake made by Carter, the suspected criminal realized he was being watched and attempted to escape. Bond pursued Molloka through the jungle, up an enormously high construction site and finally to the Zimbabwean Embassy. Bond broke into the embassy, fought off several soldiers and then captured Molloka. Outside of the embassy, Bond held a gun to Molloka's head while surrounded by a large number of soldiers. After an embassy official ordered him to hand over Molloka, Bond pushed him into the arms of the official. However, he them immediately shot Molloka in the head and then a gas line outside the embassy. That caused an explosion and in the chaos of the aftermath, Bond escaped. The incident infuriated the director of the OO Branch, as Bond had only been instructed to capture Molloka, but the criminal's cell phone led Bond to discover a terrorist plot to blow up a gigantic prototype Skyfleet airliner at Charles de Gaulle International Airport. Bond managed to stop the terrorists from succeeding and killed a man named Carlos, who had replaced Molloka as the criminal responsible for destroying the airliner.

Following this success, the OO Branch director informed Bond that the mastermind of the incident was a man known as Le Chiffre, who served as private banker to terrorists and mobsters all over the world. Le Chiffre had been using his clients' money to short sell successful companies and then would engineer terrorist attacks to sink their stock values so he could make a fortune. When Bond foiled Le Chiffre's plan to destroy the Skyfleet, the banker was left with a major loss since he had shorted the company's shares.

Needing to recoup his clients' money, Le Chiffre had set up a high-stakes poker tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro. Hoping that a defeat would force Le Chiffre to aid the U.S. government in exchange for protection from his creditors, the OO Branch entered Bond into the tournament. He was assisted in the mission by a CIA logistics officer named René Mathis and a liaison agent from the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence named Vesper Lynd, who was responsible for managing the mission's funds. Bond went on to win the tournament and since then Jim Bond has proven himself to be one of the most capable officers in the CIA's employ.

[bondfreak9879]

Once I find the time, ill read that

[Kapitalist]

Originally Posted by bondfreak9879

Once I find the time, ill read that

It'll be well worth the time.

[Kyle Pugh]

ow ya, reading the bond series would be an exellent way to blow a night and still have fun doing nothing.

[Kapitalist]

I've modified the bio:

James Bond is the son of Andrew Bond and Monique Delacroix Bond. His Scottish-American father was a senior accounting manager for General Dynamics, while his mother was originally from Gatineau, Quebec. When Bond was eleven years old, his parents died in a climbing tragedy while attempting to scale north-east ridge of the Aiguille de la Persévérance. After their deaths, he was homeschooled by his aunt and guardian, Charmain Bond of Saratoga Springs, New York.

From age 14 to 15, Bond attended Phillips Academy preparatory school until "trouble" with one of the maids. He then transferred to his father's alma mater, New York Military Academy. While there he won numerous athletic competitions and twice boxed for the school as a light weight. He also formed an intermural judo league. Throughout his teens, he spent time studying both climbing and skiing with local Austrian instructor Hannes Oberhauser during term breaks at NYMA. Bond's one strong relationship, this friendship ended when Oberhauser disappeared mysteriously. Bond considered Oberhauser a second father.

After graduating from New York Military Academy, Bond began attending the United States Naval Academy. While there, Bond excelled in all areas of training. Bond matriculated from his coursework at the Naval Academy with passable marks. However, whilst excelling at athletic competitions, strategic operations, and counter-intelligence courses, his unconventional approach to his education, his diffident attitude to some of his superiors, and a lack of respect for curfew drew him a few demerits. He graduated from the Naval Academy with a bachelor's degree in Economics. Sadly, Bond lost his one surviving close relative, his aunt Charmain Bond, a few weeks after graduation.

While at the Academy, Bond decided that he wanted to be a Navy SEAL. Soon after his commission as an Ensign, he began Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Training, which was followed by basic parachute training at the U.S Army Airborne School at Fort Benning. Bond then moved on to SEAL Qualification Training. Following his completion of SQT, he was placed on board SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team One where he earned his SEAL Qualification Badge (Trident) and served as an assistant platoon commander. For his performance with SDVT-1, Bond earned the Navy Commendation Medal. Eventually, he was assigned to SEAL Team 3 as a platoon commander. While with that SEAL Team, his actions during a combat mission earned him the Silver Star. Bond was later given a staff assignment at Special Operations Central Command in Florida, where he spent a year of shore duty assisting in the operational planning of SDV missions.

With numerous commendations, Bond left the Navy after eight years of service and was hired soon after by a private security firm as a part-time close protection officer while he simultaneously sought employment with the Central Intelligence Agency. Before Bond could join the Agency, he had to go through background checks, take the entrance exam, and go through a series of assessments including psychometric, numerical reasoning, psychological, psychoanalytical, aptitude, and a polygraph test. Upon passing the entrance and psychological examinations, Bond was accepted as a "Career Trainee." He then quit his job at the private security firm. After an orientation period, he was sent to the CIA Special Training Center - "The Farm," Camp Peary for intensive operational training. There, he went through the Basic Operations Course, which trained him in so-called "operational intelligence" or "tradecraft" skills. This means Bond was taught to become a master in the finer points of espionage - everything from recruiting foreign assets to detecting surveillance to clandestine communications methods as well as infiltration and exfiltration techniques. He was also trained for night parachuting, clandestine photography, tactical high speed emergency driving, rappelling from helicopters, and dry and wet demolition. Because of his military experience, Bond excelled through training. He received exceptionally high marks for physical endurance, logic, and psychological ops exercises.

After training, Bond was given non-official cover status; that is he became an operations officer without any official connection to the CIA and therefore without diplomatic immunity if ever caught in an act of espionage. His cover was that of a management consultant to a private military company. While his primary work was recruiting foreign agents and interrogating captured enemy agents; he was also involved in translating communiqués and worked back-channel sources to aid in solving a minor crisis between the U.S. and China. Two years into his career with the CIA, Bond transferred to the Special Operations Group of the Special Activities Division. As a paramilitary operations officer, Bond's clandestine and covert duties took him around the world. He took part in paramilitary interdiction efforts against drug smuggling between Burma and the United States (resulting in a letter of recommendation from his superior) and four days of black ops reconnaissance into North Korea, penetrating naval compounds. Bond worked with members of a DIA Strategic Support Team to penetrate and gain intelligence on Iranian military and suspected unconventional weapons installations. He also saw covert action in the Philippines, Indonesia, Iraq, Colombia, Somalia, and East Timor. After two years in the Special Activities Division, Bond was recruited into a newly-established and highly unconventional CIA sub-agency called the Optimum Operations Branch.

[Kapitalist]

Funded by money that has been diverted out of innocuous government funded programs, the OO Branch operates in ultra secrecy, independent of the official U.S. government national security apparatus to get around impediments such as the executive order banning assassinations. The missions to which this covert unit is typically tasked with handling are either too sensitive or too risky for traditional CIA entities. It marks a return to classical methods of espionage, enhanced with specialized gadgetry and weapons for the aggressive collection of stored data in hostile territories. Instead of relying on foreign informants, OO Branch field officers (known as "OO agents") physically infiltrate dangerous and sensitive enemy locations to gather the required intelligence by whatever means necessary. In other words, they go back to the nitty-gritty world of human spies out there in the field, risking their lives in undercover espionage missions. Since the OO Branch has no provable ties to the U.S. government, OO agents are authorized to work outside the boundaries of international treaties. Once their orders have been given, there are no required procedures for the fulfillment of the mission. They can use whatever means they deem necessary. Success is all that matters. This unconventional status allows OO agents to disregard any law, agreement, or framework of ethical behavior in order to accomplish a mission. For example, they are essentially entrusted with a license to kill -- the authorization to, at their own discretion, commit acts that might be otherwise considered murder in order to complete their missions, without having to seek permission from headquarters first. However, if a OO agent were to ever be captured or killed, the U.S. government would disavow them. The OO Branch is so elite that there are only nine OO agents at any given time.

Bond was given the cover legend of a senior export officer for an import/export company named Universal Exports – which is actually a CIA front company. After being given the code number "OO7", he was tasked with killing two people. The first was in New York – a cryptologist who had cracked a CIA code and was attempting to sell it to the highest bidder. The assignment was on the thirty-sixth floor of the RCA building in the Rockefeller center. Bond took a room on the fortieth floor of the next-door skyscraper where he could look across the street into his room and see him working. Then he and a fellow OO agent sat for several hours waiting for their chance. The other agent shot at the cryptologist a second before Bond. His job was only to blast a hole through the windows so that Bond could shoot the man through it. Bond did exactly that, shooting immediately after the other agent, through the hole he had made. Even though it was three hundred yards away, he got the cryptologist in the mouth as he turned to gape at the broken window. The other person Bond had to kill was a CIA analyst in Karachi who was selling secrets from within the agency. He'd managed to get two CIA officers captured and killed. For various reasons it had to be an absolutely silent job. Bond chose the bedroom of the traitor's apartment and stabbed him to death after a brief hand-to-hand fight.

On his next mission as Agent OO7, Bond and another OO agent named Carter worked cooperatively in an attempt to capture international bomb-maker, Molloka. At a mongoose/cobra fight in Madagascar, Bond and Carter conducted surveillance on Molloka but, due to a foolish mistake made by Carter, the suspected criminal realized he was being watched and attempted to escape. Bond pursued Molloka through the jungle, up an enormously high construction site and finally to the Zimbabwean Embassy. Bond broke into the embassy, fought off several soldiers and then captured Molloka. Outside of the embassy, Bond held a gun to Molloka's head while surrounded by a large number of soldiers. After an embassy official ordered him to hand over Molloka, Bond pushed him into the arms of the official. However, he them immediately shot Molloka in the head and then a gas line outside the embassy. That caused an explosion and in the chaos of the aftermath, Bond escaped. The incident infuriated the director of the OO Branch, as Bond had only been instructed to capture Molloka, but the criminal's cell phone led Bond to discover a terrorist plot to blow up a gigantic prototype Skyfleet airliner at Charles de Gaulle International Airport. Bond managed to stop the terrorists from succeeding and killed a man named Carlos, who had replaced Molloka as the criminal responsible for destroying the airliner.

Following this success, the OO Branch director informed Bond that the mastermind of the incident was a man known as Le Chiffre, who served as private banker to terrorists and mobsters all over the world. Le Chiffre had been using his clients' money to short sell successful companies and then would engineer terrorist attacks to sink their stock values so he could make a fortune. When Bond foiled Le Chiffre's plan to destroy the Skyfleet, the banker was left with a major loss since he had shorted the company's shares.

Needing to recoup his clients' money, Le Chiffre had set up a high-stakes poker tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro. Hoping that a defeat would force Le Chiffre to aid the U.S. government in exchange for protection from his creditors, the OO Branch entered Bond into the tournament. He was assisted in the mission by a CIA logistics specialist named René Mathis and Vesper Lynd, a liaison agent from the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. She was responsible for managing the mission's funds. Bond went on to win the tournament and since then James Bond has proven himself to be one of the most capable officers in the CIA's employ.

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Any comments on the second version?

[pete_smith]

Much better mate. Love it.

Sad but true I often wonder if that plot truly unfolded in our new economy. Or at least some variant of it.