Fiona Volpe

Fiona Volpe, played by Luciana Paluzzi, is a fictional character in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The character is a creation of the film-makers, an addition to Ian Fleming's original plot. 'Volpe' is Italian for fox; the character and the red-haired actress are Italian. A deadly assassin in SPECTRE's execution branch, Volpe assumes the role of NATO pilot Major Francois Derval’s mistress in the operation to steal the Vulcan and its precious cargo of two atomic bombs, which SPECTRE plans to use to blackmail the world. She organises Derval’s murder and is also called upon to kill Count Lippe, after he fails to acknowledge his employee Angelo's greed. She does so by destroying Lippe's car, with a missile launcher built into her BSA...