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^{This question is inspired by the recent news of Lashana Lynch taking over as 007.}

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Did the 007 position within MI6 begin with James Bond or did he take it over from a previous agent?

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  Forever and a Day is an official Bond novel and a prequel to Casino Royale. The agent with the "007" designation gets killed and James Bond takes over. - In the movies other 00 agents were seen on-screen, but never another "007".
  
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That depends on the source

According to the wiki, Bond is the only 007 in Ian Fleming's Bond stories:

James Bond is the only agent 007. In the novel You Only Live Twice, Bond was transferred into another branch and given the number 7777, suggesting there was no active agent 007 in that time; he is later reinstated as 007 in the novel The Man with the Golden Gun.

But the Bond stories from Anthony Horowitz's novel, he takes it from another agent:

In Anthony Horowitz's continuation novel, set before the events of Casino Royale, an unnamed agent 007 is murdered, which leads to James Bond taking over the code-number in Forever and A Day, thus marking his first ever assignment as a 00-agent.

It's never explicitly said in the movies, but the first Eon Production Films 007 movie was Dr. No (1962) which is an adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel, so we can safely assume that the movies have the same backstory as the novels.

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That depends on the source

According to the wiki, Bond is the only 007 in Ian Fleming's Bond stories:

James Bond is the only agent 007. In the novel You Only Live Twice, Bond was transferred into another branch and given the number 7777, suggesting there was no active agent 007 in that time; he is later reinstated as 007 in the novel The Man with the Golden Gun.

But the Bond stories from Anthony Horowitz's novel, he takes it from another agent:

In Anthony Horowitz's continuation novel, set before the events of Casino Royale, an unnamed agent 007 is murdered, which leads to James Bond taking over the code-number in Forever and A Day, thus marking his first ever assignment as a 00-agent.

It's never explicitly said in the movies, but the first Eon Production Films 007 movie was Dr. No (1962) which is an adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel, so we can safely assume that the movies have the same backstory as the novels.

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That depends on the source

According to the wiki, Bond is the only 007 in Ian Fleming's Bond stories:

James Bond is the only agent 007. In the novel You Only Live Twice, Bond was transferred into another branch and given the number 7777, suggesting there was no active agent 007 in that time; he is later reinstated as 007 in the novel The Man with the Golden Gun.

But the Bond stories from Anthony Horowitz's novel, he takes it from another agent:

In Anthony Horowitz's continuation novel, set before the events of Casino Royale, an unnamed agent 007 is murdered, which leads to James Bond taking over the code-number in Forever and A Day, thus marking his first ever assignment as a 00-agent.

It's never explicitly said in the movies, but the first Eon Production Films 007 movie was Dr. No (1962) which is an adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel, so we can safely assume that the movies have the same backstory as the novels.

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That depends on the source

According to the wiki, Bond is the only 007 in Ian Fleming's Bond stories:

James Bond is the only agent 007. In the novel You Only Live Twice, Bond was transferred into another branch and given the number 7777, suggesting there was no active agent 007 in that time; he is later reinstated as 007 in the novel The Man with the Golden Gun.

But the Bond stories from Anthony Horowitz's novel, he takes it from another agent:

In Anthony Horowitz's continuation novel, set before the events of Casino Royale, an unnamed agent 007 is murdered, which leads to James Bond taking over the code-number in Forever and A Day, thus marking his first ever assignment as a 00-agent.

It's never explicitly said in the movies, but the first Eon Production Films 007 movie was Dr. No (1962) which is an adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel, so we can safely assume that the movies have the same backstory as the novels.

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