Colonel Rosa Klebb

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From Russia With Love
created by
author Ian Fleming (1957)
film (1963)

In the novel Colonel Rosa Klebb is a high ranking member of the feared Russian counter-intelligence agency SMERSH, where she serves as the supervisor of Department II (operations and executions). Klebb is assigned to spearhead an operation to get revenge on James Bond for his involvement in the deaths of two SMERSH operatives, Le Chiffre and Mr. Big. Teaming with Tov Kronsteen and Red Grant, Klebb sets a trap for Bond, enlisting a cipher clerk, Tatiana Romanova, to pretend to defect, claiming to fall in love with Bond. When Bond takes the bait, Grant will kill him. This plan backfires, however, when Tatiana really does fall in love with Bond. After Grant is killed, Klebb must attend to Bond herself.

She tracks him and Tatiana to Paris and he encounters her in a hotel room, dressed as a wealthy widow. After failing to kill him with a gun hidden in a telephone, she successfully poisons him by means of a venom tipped dart hidden in her shoe; she is then captured by Bond's friend Rene Mathis, of the Deuxième Bureau, and subsequently dies.

In the film, Klebb or "No. 3" is a former SMERSH agent who has defected to become a member of SPECTRE. She uses Kronsteen's plans to obtain the Lektor device and kill Bond. She hires Tatiania Romanova to help Bond steal the Lektor, and then sends Red Grant to kill Bond and recover it. When Red Grant dies at the hand of Bond, Blofeld wants to know who is behind the failure. Then, thanks to Morenzy, Kronsteen dies and Klebb makes one last attempt to get Bond and the Lektor. Posing as a maid, she attempts to take the Lektor; when she is caught she points a gun at Bond. Tatiana Romanova then distracts her, causing her to drop the gun, and Bond and Klebb fight. Klebb attempts to kick Bond with her poison tipped shoe, but Bond blocks the attack with a chair. Tatiana then picks up Bond's gun and kills her.

It is strongly implied that Klebb is a lesbian. Her hard, almost masculine appearance, coupled with several instances when she touches Tatiana and comments on her beauty or her reaction when Morzeny touches her.

SUMMARY

ARCH RIVAL :	James Bond.
STRENGTHS :	She has a reputation for overseeing the interrogations of enemy agents in which, after exacting various methods of torture on the target, she speaks to them in a warm and motherly tone in an unusual and apparently effective method of extracting necessary information.
WEAKNESSES :	Physically weak and outmatched when tackling Bond, Klebb has to rely on silly gadgets - such as her tipped shoe to help her win the day, however with no success.
WEAPONS :	Klebb has a venom tipped dart hidden in her shoe and a gun disguised as a telephone.
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