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By Hugh Schofield
For James Bond aficionados, the boardroom murder of a disobedient member of Ernst Stavro Blofeld s crime syndicate SPECTRE is part of 007 mythology.
Less well known is that the brutal scene, as written by Ian Fleming in
Thunderball, takes place in the heart of the French capital: on the third floor of number 136 Boulevard Haussmann, to be precise, a short walk from the BBC office.
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image captionThe famous scene in Thunderball featuring Blofeld
With the cabal s 20 members gathered round a large table, Blofeld reaches for a secret switch and sends the Corsican into oblivion. Ignoring the smell of charred flesh, his colleagues look on impassively.
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