 At the start of Fleming 's first book , Casino Royale , Bond is already a 00 agent , having been given the position after killing two enemy agents , a Japanese spy on the thirty @-@ sixth floor of the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center in New York City and a Norwegian double agent who had betrayed two British agents ; it is suggested by Bond scholar John Griswold that these were part of Bond 's wartime service with Special Operations Executive , a British World War II covert military organisation . In 1954 , according to the Soviet file on him in From Russia , With Love , Bond is made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George . 
