Brad Whitaker
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Brad Whitaker is a fictional character and villain in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. He was portrayed by American actor Joe Don Baker.
Brad Whitaker was a wealthy illegal international arms dealer from the U.S. His fascination with war, but failure in the military, led him to use other means for organising his own personal military force. Expelled from West Point for cheating, he spent a short stint as a mercenary in the Belgian Congo before working with various criminal organisations to help finance his first arms deals.Whitaker joins forces with Soviet General Koskov to secure a large shipment of opium from the Snow Leopard Brotherhood in Afghanistan for $500,000,000 worth of diamonds that he had obtained from an arms deal with the Soviets. At the same time they attempt to use Bond to eliminate the Soviet head of secret operations, General Pushkin, on the basis that he has instituted an ongoing operation called "Smiert Spionem" meaning "Death to Spies." Actually, it is their men, especially Koskov's henchman Necros, who are involved in killing British secret service agents. After thwarting Whitaker's plans Bond hunts him down at his Tangier headquarters and kills him after a childish game of cat-and-mouse in his gaming room, with him using high-tech weapons (such as a light machine gun with an integral ballistic shield), and Bond using his Walther PPK. After Bond hides behind a bust of British commander Wellington, he sets his key-ring finder behind it. Whitaker gets right in front of it, Bond does a wolf whistle, and the key-ring finder explodes, toppling the bust and podium on top of Whitaker, crushing him.
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