20 Things You Didn't Know About A View To A Kill (1985)

5. We’re Following Your Exploits Closely, Double-0 Seven

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A View to a Kill hit screens in the mid-1980s, when then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan was exploring his Strategic Defence Initiative (a.k.a. Star Wars Project), so it is hardly surprising that American intelligence was looking to Bond for inspiration.

When Double-0 Seven infiltrates Zorin’s chateau, posing as amateur horse-breeder, James St. John Smythe, Zorin uses a hidden camera and a computer database to visually identify the British agent.

Former CIA agent, Tony Mendez later revealed that, after he had seen the film, his superior asked if the Agency had this sort of identikit available. When Mendez replied that it did not, he was instructed to develop it, even though the technology was not available.

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