While the most famous product of Carl Walther GmbH in fiction is the PPK pistol used by James Bond, Walther actually made a line of submachine guns that were the weapon of choice of real covert operatives during the Cold War. The Walther Maschinenpistole (MP) line in either the MP Lang (MPL) or MP Kurz (MPK) format was used by numerous police agencies, special forces units, and counter-terror teams during the Cold War, due to its compact yet controllable design, accuracy and light weight.