Quantum of Solace , the new James Bond movie schedule for release in mid - November might be a okay movie , butsomething is miss . There is no Q. James Bondwithout Qis like toast without butter . Over more than three decades , Q ’s work stunned audiences and saved Bond ’s life . Q ’s inventions confounded Bond ’s adversaries and inspire applied scientist at the CIA - really - to stretch the demarcation of physic and adapt the most advanced technology to espionage needs . I used to run that section , the CIA Office of Technical Service . ”Q was an aspiration , ” a farsighted - sentence technical officer once secern me . “ When a newfangled Bond movie was released , we always got telephone call need , ‘ Do you have one of those ? ’ If I answer ‘ no , ’ the next inquiry was , ‘ How long will it take you to make it ? ’ Folks did n’t care about the laws of physics or that Q was an actor in a fictional motion-picture show - his character and inventiveness pushed our imagination . ” Former Soviet intelligence officer have commented to American counterparts that Bond movies were carefully analyzed by KGB technician . The Soviets believed that Q ’s gismo telegraphed the Western expert capabilities that Soviet counterintelligence would eventually face . But Q ’s devices , unlike those available to American inhuman war spies , always work exactly as they were design . The former Richard Helms , former Director of Central Intelligence , noted this dividing line with Bond in committal to writing , “ [ Our ] operational plumbery … included … versions of some of the gadgets James Bond always had at hand . It sometimes seemed the more telling a gimmick come out in the workshop , the more tenuous it was . It have some experience before case officers instruct not to fling these prima donna utensils into the back seat of an car , but to treat them with the delicate paw they need . ” By the mid 1990 ’s digital technology was revolutionize technical espionage just as the integrated tour had done three decades sooner . IC ’s made possible tiny bugs for surreptitious audio , electronic communications equipment and new sensor for collection and detection . But by 1999 , software code - visually unexciting strings of ones and zeros - buried in a figurer or a PDA , rather than silklike cover , tiny bug and miniature cameras , had became the ticker of undercover agent gear . In QoS , fast cars , exotic arm , glorious explosion and smooth seduction evidently remain , but the inestimatible Q and his awing gismo are gone , perchance forever . Robert Wallace , a retired CIA officer , is the former music director of the CIA ’s Office of Technical Service and generator of SPYCRAFT : The Secret story of the CIA ’s Spytechs from Communism to al - Qaeda . Having appeared on Gizmodomany time in the past , he may be arrive at atwww.ciaspycraft.com .
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