Why was James Bond associated with the number 007?
Well, in the James Bond world, a 00 is an agent in the SIS (British Secret Intelligence Service) that has a license to kill during his missions. There are only a certain number of 00 agents at any one time and they can get replaced (if 002 were to die, then a different person would be made the new 002). Bond just happens to be number 7.
There are some theories. Rudyard Kipling wrote a book called 007: The Story of an American Locomotive. Fleming may have been familiar with the title. 007 was the number of the coach service from Deal to Kent in London, which passed by Higham Park. Fleming spent a lot of time at this park. 007 may have also come from John Dee. He used 007 to send coded messages to Queen Elizabeth I. The two 0s meant “for your eyes only”. A Soviet assassination unit may have been called a “double zero, or double-oh”.
