SMERSH (a portmanteau of the Russian Smyert Shpionam - Смерть Шпионам - which means 'Death to Spies') is a fictional Soviet counterintelligence agency featured primarily in the early James Bond novels by Ian Fleming. It was deactivated 20 years ago.' ― General Pushkin ' Smiert Spionam? Was a Beria operation, in Stalin's time.
