The film's main villain, Le Chiffre, is a private banker for international terrorists with connections to the organization. It is represented only through its middleman, Mr. In Casino Royale, Quantum is featured in the background but not named. Le Chiffre planned to blow up a commercial airline flight, simply in order to harm the airline industry and thus influence stock market trends in his favor. Quantum is not above conducting acts of terrorism directly, though these are for purely financial, and not political reasons, i.e. Quantum is capable of and willing to depose various dictators or legitimate governments to replace them with new heads of state that are more willing to pay off their organization. Quantum is apolitical, primarily concerned with amassing more wealth and power, through various schemes ranging from serving as a third party source of funds for various terrorist groups, to illicitly buying up the rights to limited natural resources in third world countries (such as gaining a monopoly on the water supply of Bolivia). Operating under the mantra, 'We deal with the left and the right, dictators or liberators', the Quantum organization appears to be a New World Order power-cabal, composed of various plutocrats, wealthy technology magnates, and powerful members of the intelligence agencies of both the Western and former Eastern blocs (including the CIA, MI6, Mossad, and KGB).
