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Story

In the short story, Bond is sent to Italy to break up a drug-smuggling operation. While there his contact is Aristotle Kristatos, who occasionally works with the CIA. Kristatos informs Bond that the man behind the operation is Enrico Colombo, however, after being captured and taken aboard Colombo's ship, the Colombina, Bond is told by Colombo that Kristatos is actually a double working for the Russians and the man behind the drug smuggling operation. Colombo proves this to Bond by taking him on a raid of Kristatos' warehouse where they catch Kristatos and his men loading a shipment of drugs.

Film

In the film, Milos Columbo is a Greek smuggler who was set up by Kristatos as the man in charge of Emile Locque, both to remove a larger rival and because he knew too much about Kristatos' KGB connections and the fact that Kristatos had been an agent for Germany in WWII. Columbo captures and persuades Bond that Kristatos is actually giving Locque orders, and invites Bond on a raid of one of Kristatos' factories where they find Locque.
Columbo is first seen when Kristatos secretly introduces James to Columbo. He leaves Countess Lisl von Schlaf for a moment to listen to his secret tape of a conversation between Kristatos and Bond. After Lisl is killed, James meets Columbo. Columbo tells Bond the whole background and that Aris Kristatos is the real enemy and admits he smuggles gold, diamonds, cigarettes and pistachio nuts (the later of which he has a personal taste for and is often seen eating) but not heroin. Later he helps James and Melina get up to St. Cyril's Monastery, Greece. Columbo later chases Kristatos in an aggressive yet brief scuffle, causing Kristatos to lose his footwork and drop the ATAC. When Melina is about to kill Kristatos, Bond pleads not, referring to Chinese proverbs. Kristatos pulls out a switchblade knife and tries to kill Bond, but Columbo impales him in the back with a knife, ending a personal vendetta.


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