Oddly enough, this is an amount of agents that allocates one for each day of Christmas.
There’s a ton of Christmas imagery and iconography in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, with the entire middle act of the film taking place at a gigantic Christmas party held by one Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Played by Telly Savalas this time around, Blofeld’s new evil scheme is pretty far in the works by time Bond discovers it, and the holiday season is crucial to its execution. Known as “Blofeld’s Angels of Death,” a group of 12 women from around the world are visiting what they think is an allergy clinic, but is really a sinister laboratory where the legendary baddie is hatching a germ warfare plot.