Kronsteen
(Vladek Sheybal)
Character: Kronsteen
Actor: Vladek Sheybal
Movie: From Russia With Love
Age: 35
Appearence: Black hair, dark piercing eyes, Russian and Polish
nationality.
Status: Terminated
Personality
Kronsteen had a cold and egotistical manner, he thought he was
unbeatable because of his brilliant intelligence as a chess player
and strategist. Kronsteen had a chilling and humourless personality,
his soft spoken voice was that of a calm and experienced intellect.
Scheme
Although Blofeld was Kronsteen's superior, he was in charge of
the planning and strategies of the elaborate plot. Kronsteen's
plan was of benefit to SPECTRE in several areas, from power, revenge
and extortion. Blofeld had left it up to Kronsteen and the plot
was devised in order to steal a Lektor decoder from the Russians
and extort millions of dollar from them to get the decoder back,
Kronsteen also involved James Bond in the plot to avenge the termination
of Dr No.
Kronsteen enlisted the help of Rosa Klebb who defected to SPECTRE
from Russia's SMERSH organisation, Klebb recruited Tatiana Romanova
a Soviet cipher clerk, Tatiana was unaware of Klebb's membership
with SPECTRE and thought she was to seduce Bond to supply some
information to the Soviets. However Bond was to be killed and
the Lektor stolen and it would be unknown to Bond that he was
actually delivering the Lektor to SPECRE.
Headquarters
Kronsteen did not personally have his own headquarters, but was
to report to his superior, Blofeld aboard a yacht. Blofeld's office
was a luxurious room aboard the yacht with a large hardwood desk,
it also included a fish tank with Blofeld's seams fighting fish,
entertainment and cat food. Kronsteen initially layed out the
plot details aboard the yacht and was later killed by Morzeny
in front of Blofeld's desk.
