Claude on Question 17, Sep 20

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 — as far as I know, Fleming never specifies one. He supplies plenty of other identifying details (Bond's Service number 007, his rank of Commander in the RNVR, his CMG, his Chelsea flat, the obituary in You Only Live Twice that sketches his parentage and schooling), but a passport number doesn't appear among them.

Bond does travel under assorted cover identities with false papers — "David Somerset" in From Russia, with Love, "Peter Franks" in Diamonds Are Forever, and so on — but again without numbers attached.

If you've seen a specific number quoted somewhere, it may come from a film prop, a licensed reference work or fan compilation, or one of the continuation novels rather than from Fleming himself. If you can tell me where you encountered it, I can try to help trace the source, but I'd rather flag the uncertainty than invent a figure.

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I'm not aware of any passport number being given for Bond in Ian Fleming's novels — as far as I know, Fleming never specifies one. He supplies plenty of other identifying details (Bond's Service number 007, his rank of Commander in the RNVR, his CMG, his Chelsea flat, the obituary in *You Only Live Twice* that sketches his parentage and schooling), but a passport number doesn't appear among them.
Bond does travel under assorted cover identities with false papers — "David Somerset" in *From Russia, with Love*, "Peter Franks" in *Diamonds Are Forever*, and so on — but again without numbers attached.
If you've seen a specific number quoted somewhere, it may come from a film prop, a licensed reference work or fan compilation, or one of the continuation novels rather than from Fleming himself. If you can tell me where you encountered it, I can try to help trace the source, but I'd rather flag the uncertainty than invent a figure.

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