SMERSH is a fictional
Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in
Ian Fleming's early
James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis. SMERSH is the acronym of
Spetsyalnye MEtody Razoblacheniya SHpyonov, meaning "Special Methods of Spy Detection", (in Russian Cyrillic СМЕРШ: Специальные Методы Разоблaчения Шпионов).