The next day, after Kerim Bey's office is bombed, Bond and Kerim Bey spy on the Soviet consulate, where Kerim Bey sees rival agent Krilencu. 007 is followed from the airport by an unkempt man in glasses and by Red Grant. Bond then flies to Istanbul, where he meets station head Ali Kerim Bey. In London, M tells Bond that Romanova has contacted their 'Station 'T'' in Turkey, offering to defect with a Lektor, which MI6 and the CIA have been after for years – but Romanova said she will only defect to Bond, whose photo she has allegedly found in a Soviet intelligence file.
Klebb recruits Grant as an assassin, and Tatiana Romanova, a cipher clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul, as an unwitting pawn, as Romanova thinks Klebb is still working for SMERSH.
The SPECTRE Number 1 puts ex- SMERSH operative and Number 3 Rosa Klebb in charge of the mission. SPECTRE's expert planner Kronsteen has devised a plot to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets and sell it back to them while exacting revenge on Bond for killing their agent Dr. As the garden lights up, it is revealed that this 'Bond' is actually a man wearing a prosthetic mask - it was all a SPECTRE training exercise. Grant eventually gets the jump on him and garrotes him to death with a wire concealed in his watch. Late one night, British Agent James Bond 007 sneaks through a hedgemaze, stalked by Red Grant, a SPECTRE assassin.
