Its long-term strategy , however , is illustrated by the analogy of the three Siamese fighting fish Blofeld keeps in an aquarium aboard SPECTRE Yacht in the film version of '' From Russia with Love '' . Blofeld notes that one fish is refraining from fighting two others until their fight is concluded . Then , that cunning fish attacks the weakened victor and kills it easily . Thus SPECTRE 's main strategy is to instigate conflict between two powerful enemies , namely the superpowers , hoping that they will exhaust themselves and be vulnerable when it seizes power . SPECTRE thus works with , and against , both sides of the Cold War . For example , in the film '' Thunderball '' , it simultaneously blackmails a Japanese double agent , distributes Red Chinese narcotics in the United States , kills a defector to the USSR on behalf of the French Foreign Ministry , and threatens NATO with stolen nuclear weapons , while continuing ordinary criminal operations such as advising on the British Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery (1963)
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