However, production designer Ken Adam could not participate because he was working on Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Production was put into high gear to capitalize on the fervor.
Kennedy stating From Russia With Love was one of his favorite novels.
At the time, America's fascination with Bond was in full force, with President John F. Agents of SPECTRE Donald Grant (Robert Shaw) and Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) attempt to subvert the defection and take possession of a code-breaking Lektor machine, the bargaining chip for Romanova. Bond is dispatched to enable the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova. One year later, James Bond returned in From Russia With Love, again featuring the hard-edged Connery as well as Dr.
