 Upon awakening, the pair are escorted to dine with the base's owner Dr. No - a Chinese-German criminal scientist who has prosthetic metal hands due to radiation exposure.While dining with him, Bond learns that Dr. No was a former member of a Chinese crime Tong, until he stole $10 million in gold, and now works as an operative of the secret organisation SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion).Bond learns that the radio jamming being conducted by Dr. No is being planned to disrupt the Project Mercury space launch at Cape Canaveral using a radio beam, in hopes of creating a war between the Americans and Russians.