Stopwatch wrote:Apparently MI6 is so secret that half the people in this thread thought it was fictional? Um, okay then.
(FYI, while Fleming certainly had connections with MI6 and several other spy agencies around the world (as he was part of the Naval Intelligence Division when that was a thing), I don't think he was ever an agent for MI6. If you can find sources to refute this however, please do say ^^.)
EDIT: I don't know enough to say how true the 00 thing is though. Might look it up at some point.
Admittedly, MI6 wasn't confirmed as existing to the general public until 1994 and most peoples' exposure to it is through the James Bond series.
My mistake about Flemming.
I'm not sure about the 00 thing either and I haven't found a source yet. There is a concept regarding certain field agents being able to kill, but I don't know if it gets the 00 designation. Some people do mention over here (
http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/5041/were-there-ever-secret-agents-licensed-to-kill-in-real-life/p1), though, that MI6 is pretty restrictive about firearm use and possession, along with how agents don't have the power of arrest. Agents abroad are allowed firearms. Amuro is in Japan, though, so he'd have issues with restrictions on handguns, especially if he was deep undercover, at least in terms of anyone who does care about the firearm law knowing about his possession of a firearm.
Though, in all honestly, the fact that Amuro is the character named after Amuro Ray amuses me, assuming we go with the MI6 idea: MI6's crest has a unicorn on it and Amuro Ray had the nickname "the white unicorn." (As for the issue of the hatred of the FBI, when I tried googling about an MI6/FBI rivalry, I got a bunch of conspiracy theory results instead of actual information and stuff about the CIA and MI6, so...)
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." -Sherlock Holmes