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The Story Behind the Comically Villainous Octopus Logo of U.S. Spy Agency

When the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) announced the upcoming launch of their NROL-39 mission back in December 2013, they didn’t get quite the response they had anticipated...

SPECTRE logo:

SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a fictional organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games.

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Passing through a spectral ship, from Pleasant Hours, 1870.

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#ghost ship #spectral ship #spectre #haunted ship

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From The London Magazine, 1902. The text reads, “I haven’t any name. I am an irresposible nonentity. I am a spectre, and spectres don’t have names. I don’t exist. You think you see me, but you don’t, for I am dead, and I can prove it to you. Do you want me to do it?”

#spectre #nonentity #i don't exist #we are ghosts #vintage illustration