General Anatol Alexis Gogol is the head of the USSR's KGB in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill and is retired by the time of The Living Daylights. General Gogol is portrayed by Walter Gotell.

Despite the popular assumption about the James Bond series' cold war focus, Gogol is never depicted as a true villain. At his most hostile, he is a respectful competitor and more often is a ally against the common foes of peace.

Overview

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In his first appearance he is seen sending Agent XXX to recover the microfilm. Later in the film Gogol and Bond's boss M form an alliance, which is the start of the Anglo-Soviet relationship. Gogol is seen next in Moonraker, talking to a US official about Hugo Drax's space station.

In For Your Eyes Only, Gogol wants to buy the ATAC communicator from Aristotle Kristatos. When Bond throws it off the cliff, he is dismayed but keeps his guard from shooting Bond and is not bothered after the ATAC smashes as it maintains the relatively peaceful status quo of the nations.

In Octopussy, when General Orlov proposes invading the west, Gogol is the loudest voice opposing the reckless plan, asserting both the danger of provoking a nuclear war and that the USSR wants peace, not war. Gogol's investigations of Orlov's scheme to weaken NATO's defence runs parallel to Bond's, but his subordinates' unauthorized fatal shooting of the traitor prevents him from learning the full details of his plot and warning NATO.

In A View to A Kill, Gogol tries to stop Max Zorin from doing outside activities to the KGB. When Zorin does not, Gogol sends KGB agent Pola Ivanova to see what Zorin is up to. When Pola meets Bond, she tries to take the tape from him and give it to Gogol. Gogol is embarrased that Pola got the wrong tape. At the end of the film Gogol awards Bond the Order of Lenin, with him stating that Bond was the first non-Soviet citizen to recieve it.

In The Living Daylights, Gogol is only seen in the end, being retired, at Kara Milovy's concert with 'M'.

Trivia

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• Walter Gotell has been in 7 James Bond films, 6 as General Gogol and 1 as Morenzy in the 2nd James Bond film From Russia With Love (1963)