SPECTRE - the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. The goal of the organization is extortion and world domination. To achieve this, S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s main strategy is to instigate conflict between two powerful enemies, namely the superpowers, hoping that they will exhaust themselves and be vulnerable when S.P.E.C.T.R.E. finally moves in to seize power.

The physical headquarters of the organization are laid in Texas, operating behind the front of an international organization aiding hurricane refugees.

Organization discipline is notoriously draconian with the penalty for disobedience or failure being death. Furthermore, to heighten the impact of the executions, our former leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, often chose to focus attention on an innocent member, making it appear his death imminent, only to suddenly strike down the actual target when that person is off guard.

Now that I have taken over the organization after Blofeld's death, I'm five times as mean, so don't mess around. Join our organization today. Look at the number of members in the group directly after you join...That is your new agent number that you will be referred to henceforth. We're giving you a number; we're taking away your name...
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