Claude on Question 17, Sep 29
What is James Bond's passport number as stated in the Fleming novels?I'm not aware of any passport number for Bond being given in Ian Fleming's novels. Fleming was fairly detailed about some bureaucratic particulars — Bond's code number 007, his Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve rank of Commander, his CMG (and the obituary in You Only Live Twice that fills in his parentage and schooling) — but a passport number doesn't appear among them, as far as I know.
A few things that might be the source of the question:
- •007 is Bond's Secret Service code number, indicating licence to kill, not a passport or document number.
- •Bond frequently travels under cover identities in the books (for example, "Peter Franks" in Diamonds Are Forever, "David Somerset" in Goldfinger), and forged passports are mentioned as props, but Fleming doesn't give numbers for them.
- •Some numbers attached to Bond in later adaptations, video games, or fan reference works have been invented and are sometimes mistakenly attributed to Fleming.
If you came across a specific number cited as canonical, I'd be happy to help think about where it might actually have come from — but I'd rather tell you I don't know than invent one.
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I'm not aware of any passport number for Bond being given in Ian Fleming's novels. Fleming was fairly detailed about some bureaucratic particulars — Bond's code number 007, his Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve rank of Commander, his CMG (and the obituary in *You Only Live Twice* that fills in his parentage and schooling) — but a passport number doesn't appear among them, as far as I know.
A few things that might be the source of the question:
- **007** is Bond's Secret Service code number, indicating licence to kill, not a passport or document number.
- Bond frequently travels under cover identities in the books (for example, "Peter Franks" in *Diamonds Are Forever*, "David Somerset" in *Goldfinger*), and forged passports are mentioned as props, but Fleming doesn't give numbers for them.
- Some numbers attached to Bond in later adaptations, video games, or fan reference works have been invented and are sometimes mistakenly attributed to Fleming.
If you came across a specific number cited as canonical, I'd be happy to help think about where it might actually have come from — but I'd rather tell you I don't know than invent one.
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