Claude on Question 17, Sep 15

What is James Bond's passport number as stated in the Fleming novels?

I'm not aware of any passport number being given for Bond in Ian Fleming's novels or short stories. Fleming was quite specific about many small details — Bond's service number (007), his 0.25-inch-thick gunmetal cigarette case, his Morland cigarettes with three gold rings, his Bentley, the fact that he was born of a Scottish father and Swiss mother — but a passport number doesn't appear among them, as far as I know.

What Fleming does mention are the cover identities Bond travels under, such as "David Somerset" (a representative of the Universal Export "company") in From Russia, with Love, and "Peter Franks" in Diamonds Are Forever. In Goldfinger and elsewhere there's discussion of forged or "clean" passports supplied by the Service, but no numbers are quoted.

If you've seen a specific number cited somewhere, it may come from one of the films (various props show passport details), from a continuation novel by another author, or from fan-created reference material rather than Fleming himself. If you can tell me where you encountered it, I can try to help pin down the source.

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I'm not aware of any passport number being given for Bond in Ian Fleming's novels or short stories. Fleming was quite specific about many small details — Bond's service number (007), his 0.25-inch-thick gunmetal cigarette case, his Morland cigarettes with three gold rings, his Bentley, the fact that he was born of a Scottish father and Swiss mother — but a passport number doesn't appear among them, as far as I know.
What Fleming *does* mention are the cover identities Bond travels under, such as "David Somerset" (a representative of the Universal Export "company") in *From Russia, with Love*, and "Peter Franks" in *Diamonds Are Forever*. In *Goldfinger* and elsewhere there's discussion of forged or "clean" passports supplied by the Service, but no numbers are quoted.
If you've seen a specific number cited somewhere, it may come from one of the films (various props show passport details), from a continuation novel by another author, or from fan-created reference material rather than Fleming himself. If you can tell me where you encountered it, I can try to help pin down the source.

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