<P> Fleming based the character on occultist Aleister Crowley . </P> <P> Le Chiffre, alias "Die Nummer", "Mr. Number", "Herr Ziffer" and other translations of "The Number" or "The Cipher" in various languages, is the paymaster of the "Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace" (French for "Alsatian Workmen's Union"), a SMERSH - controlled trade union . </P> <P> He is first encountered as an inmate of the Dachau displaced persons camp in the US zone of Germany in June 1945 and transferred to Alsace - Lorraine and Strasbourg three months later on a stateless passport . There he adopts the name Le Chiffre because as he claims, he is "only a number on a passport". Not much else is really known about Le Chiffre's background or where he comes from, except for educated guesses based on his description: </P> <P> Height 5 ft. 8 in . Weight 18 stone . </P>

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