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Code word

In telecommunication, a code word is an element of a code. Each code word is a sequence of symbols assembled in accordance with the specific rules of the code and assigned a unique meaning ....
s seen in declassified documents of the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the Federal government of the United States. It is the successor of the Office of Strategic Services formed during World War II to coordinate espionage activities between the branches of the US military services....
. There has been much speculation as to their meaning.

CIA cryptonym contains a two character prefix called a digraph, which designates a geographical or functional area. Certain digraphs were changed over time; for example, the digraph for the Soviet Union changed at least twice.

The rest is either an arbitrary dictionary
Dictionary

A dictionary is a book of Alphabetical order listed words in a specific language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of alphabetically listed words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon....
 word, or occasionally the digraph and the cryptonym combine to form a dictionary word (e.g.






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CIA cryptonyms are code word
Code word

In telecommunication, a code word is an element of a code. Each code word is a sequence of symbols assembled in accordance with the specific rules of the code and assigned a unique meaning ....
s seen in declassified documents of the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Central Intelligence Agency
Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the Federal government of the United States. It is the successor of the Office of Strategic Services formed during World War II to coordinate espionage activities between the branches of the US military services....
. There has been much speculation as to their meaning.

Format of Cryptonyms

Each CIA cryptonym contains a two character prefix called a digraph, which designates a geographical or functional area. Certain digraphs were changed over time; for example, the digraph for the Soviet Union changed at least twice.

The rest is either an arbitrary dictionary
Dictionary

A dictionary is a book of Alphabetical order listed words in a specific language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of alphabetically listed words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon....
 word, or occasionally the digraph and the cryptonym combine to form a dictionary word (e.g. AEROPLANE) or can be read out as a simple phrase (e.g. WIBOTHER, read as "Why bother!"). Cryptonyms are sometimes written with a slash after the digraph, e.g. ZR/RIFLE, and sometimes in one sequence, e.g. ZRRIFLE. The latter format is the more common style in CIA documents.

Some cryptonyms relate to more than one subject, e.g. a group of people. In this case the basic cryptonym, e.g. LICOZY, will designate the whole group, while each group member is designated by a sequence number, e.g. LICOZY/3, which is sometimes written LICOZY-3.

Partial list of digraphs and probable definitions

Years in brackets indicate when the digraph is known to have been in use, but may in many cases have been used long before or after the years shown.
  • AE: Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
  • AM: Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
     (1960s)
  • AV: Uruguay
    Uruguay

    Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....
  • BE: Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
  • BI: Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
  • CK: Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
  • DI: Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia

    Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918 until 1992 . On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia....
  • DM: Yugoslavia
  • DN: South Korea
    South Korea

    South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
  • DU: Peru
    Peru

    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  • EC: Ecuador
    Ecuador

    Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
  • ES: Guatemala
    Guatemala

    Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
  • GT: Soviet Union
    Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
  • HA: Indonesia
    Indonesia

    The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
     (1958)
  • IA: Angola
    Angola

    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean....
  • KU: Part of CIA (1960s)
  • LC: China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
  • LI: Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • MH: Worldwide operation
  • MK: Projects sponsored by the CIA's Technical Services Division
    Technical Services Staff

    Technical Services Staff is the United States Central Intelligence Agency component responsible for providing supporting gadgets, disguise, forgery, Steganography, weapons and assassinations....
     (1950s/1960s)
  • OD: Other US Government Departments (1960s)
  • PB: Guatemala
    Guatemala

    Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
     (1954); President Board(?)
  • SD: Iran
    Iran

    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
  • SM: United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
  • TP: Iran
    Iran

    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
     (1953)
  • TU: South Vietnam
    South Vietnam

    South Vietnam refers to an internationally recognized state which governed Vietnam south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone until 1975. Its capital was Saigon and its origin can be traced to the French colony of Cochinchina, which consisted of the southern third of Vietnam....
  • WI: Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    The Democratic Republic of the Congo , is a country in central Africa with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest list of African countries in order of geographical area....
     (1960s)
  • ZR: Normally prefixes the cryptonym for an intelligence intercept program. Seems to go with Staff D ops, Staff D being the group that worked directly with the NSA
    National Security Agency

    The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a Cryptology Intelligence agency of the Federal government of the United States, administered as part of the United States Department of Defense....
    . Staff D was where ZR/RIFLE, a Castro
    Fidel Castro

    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976 and then president, premier until his resignation from the office in February 2008....
     assassination plot, was buried. (1960s)


Unidentified digraphs

CA, DT, EC, ER, FJ, HB, HO, HT, JM, JU, KM, LC, QK, SE, SC, WS, ZI

Partial list of CIA cryptonyms and probable definitions


Operations and Projects

  • APPLE
  • ARTICHOKE
    Project ARTICHOKE

    Project ARTICHOKE was a CIA project that researched interrogation methods and arose from Project BLUEBIRD on August 20, 1951, run by the Central Intelligence Agency Office of Scientific Intelligence....
    : Anti-interrogation project. Precursor to MKULTRA.
  • AQUATONE: Original name for the Lockheed U-2
    Lockheed U-2

    The Lockheed Corporation U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency....
     Spy Plane Project. Succeeded by CHALICE.
  • BIRCH
  • BLUEBIRD
    Project BLUEBIRD

    BLUEBIRD was the cryptonym for a CIA program involving special interrogation methods, including the use of drugs, hypnosis, and isolation. It lasted from 1949 to 1950 when it was renamed "Project ARTICHOKE", and would eventually become the infamous MKULTRA....
    : mind control program
  • CHALICE: Second name for the Lockheed U-2
    Lockheed U-2

    The Lockheed Corporation U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency....
     Spy Plane Project. Preceded by AQUATONE.
  • CHATTER
    Project CHATTER

    Project Chatter was instigated by the US Navy late in 1947. Intelligence rumours of Soviet success with truth drugs fueled the program.The project was geared to identifying agents both synthetic and natural that were effective during interrogation....
  • CHERRY: Covert assassination / destabilization operation during Vietnam war
    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
    , targeting Prince (later King) Norodom Sihanouk
    Norodom Sihanouk

    King Norodom Sihanouk Khmer alphabet#Style wasthe King of Cambodia until his abdication on October 7, 2004. He is now "King-Father of Cambodia," a position in which he retains many of his former responsibilities as constitutional King....
     and the government of Cambodia
    Cambodia

    The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in South East Asia with a population of over 13 million people. The kingdom's capital and largest city is Phnom Penh....
    . Disbanded.
  • CONDOR
    Operation Condor

    Operation Condor , was a campaign of political repressions involving assassination and Intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing politics dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America....
    : 1970s CIA interference in Latin American governments, some allege in the coup and assassination of Salvador Allende
    Salvador Allende

    Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens was President of Chile of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the 1973 Chilean coup d'?tat.Allende's involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years....
     in Chile
    Chile

    Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
  • CORONA
    Corona (satellite)

    Corona was a United States military reconnaissance satellite system operated by the CIA Directorate of Science & Technology with substantial assistance from the US Air Force, used for photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union, China and other areas from June 1959 until May 1972....
    : Satellite photo system.
  • DBACHILLES: 1995 effort to support a military coup in Iraq
    Iraq

    Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros Mountains, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
    .
  • ECHELON
    ECHELON

    ECHELON is a name used in global media and in popular culture to describe a signals intelligence collection and analysis network operated on behalf of the five signatory states to the UK-USA Security Agreement ....
    : worldwide signals intelligence and analysis network run by the UKUSA Community
    UKUSA Community

    The UK-USA Security Agreement is an agreement or treaty that established an coalition of five English-speaking countries for the purpose of sharing intelligence....
    .
  • FIR
  • GUSTO: Project to design a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2
    Lockheed U-2

    The Lockheed Corporation U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency....
     Spy Plane
  • HTAUTOMAT: Photointerpretation center established for the Lockheed U-2
    Lockheed U-2

    The Lockheed Corporation U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency....
     Spy Plane Project
  • HTLINGUAL
    HTLINGUAL

    HTLINGUAL was a secret Central Intelligence Agency project to intercept mail destined for the Soviet Union and China that operated from 1952 until 1973....
    : Mail interception
    Cabinet noir

    Cabinet noir was the name given in France to the office where the letters of suspected persons were opened and read by public officials before being forwarded to their destination....
     operation.
  • IDIOM: Initial work by Convair on a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2
    Lockheed U-2

    The Lockheed Corporation U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency....
     Spy Plane. Later moved into GUSTO.
  • IAFEATURE: Operation to support UNITA
    UNITA

    The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola is the second-largest political party in Angola. Founded in 1966, UNITA fought with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the Angolan War for Independence and then against the MPLA in the ensuing Angolan Civil War ....
     and FNLA during the Angolan civil war
    Angolan Civil War

    The Angolan Civil War began in Angola after the end of the Angolan War of Independence from Portugal in 1975. The war ultimately evolved into a prominent Cold War conflict, featuring two warring Angolan factions, the Communist MPLA, which was supported by the Soviet Union, and the anti-Communist UNITA, which gained support from the United Sta...
    .
  • KEMPSTER: Project to reduce the radar cross section
    Radar cross section

    Radar cross section is a measure of how detectable an object is with a radar. When radar waves are beamed at a target, only a certain amount is reflected back....
     (RCS) of the inlets of the Lockheed A-12 Spy Plane
  • LEMON
  • LINCOLN: Ongoing operation involving Basque
    Basque people

    The Basques are a people who inhabit a region spanning over parts of north-central Spain and southwestern France.The name Basque derives from the ancient tribe of the Vascones, described by Ancient Greece historian Strabo as living south of the western Pyrenees and north of the Ebro River, in modern day Navarre and northern Aragon....
     separatist group ETA
    ETA

    or ETA , is an illegal and armed Basque nationalist and separatist organisation. Founded in 1959, it evolved from a group advocating traditional cultural ways to a paramilitary group demanding Basque independence....
  • LITEMPO: Secret spy network code-name. Operated between 1956-1969, to exchange information with mexican top officers.
  • LPMEDLEY: Surveillance of telegraphic information exiting or entering the United States
  • MHCHAOS: Surveillance of antiwar activists during the Vietnam War
    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
  • MKDELTA: Stockpiling of lethal biological and chemical agents, subsequently became MKNAOMI
  • MKNAOMI: Stockpiling of lethal biological and chemical agents, successor to MKDELTA
  • MKULTRA: Mind control research. MKULTRA means MK (code for scientific projects) and ULTRA (top classification reference, re: ULTRA code breaking in WWII. Renamed MKSEARCH in 1964
  • MKSEARCH: MKULTRA after 1964, mind control research
  • MKOFTEN: Testing effects of biological and chemical agents, part of MKSEARCH
  • OAK: Operation to assassinate suspected South Vietnamese collaborators during Vietnam war
    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
  • OXCART: Lockheed A-12 Spy Plane Project. Replaced GUSTO.
  • PAPERCLIP
    Operation Paperclip

    Operation Paperclip was the code name for the 1945 Joint Intelligence Objectives AgencyOffice_of_Strategic_Services recruitment of scientists from Nazi Germany to the U.S....
    : US recruiting of German scientists after the Second World War
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
  • PHOENIX: Vietnam covert intelligence/assassination operation.
  • PINE
  • PBFORTUNE
    Operation PBFORTUNE

    Operation PBFORTUNE was the name of a contingency plan drafted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency in 1951 that outlined a method of ousting Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzm?n if he was deemed a Communist threat in the hemisphere....
    : CIA project to supply forces opposed to Guatemala
    Guatemala

    Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
    's President Arbenz with weapons, supplies, and funding; predecessor to PBSUCCESS
    Operation PBSUCCESS

    The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'?tat was a covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzm?n, the democratically-elected President of Guatemala....
    .
  • PBHISTORY: Central Intelligence Agency project to gather and analyze documents from the Arbenz government in Guatemala
    Guatemala

    Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
     that would incriminate Arbenz as a Communist.
  • PBJOINTLY: Operation that built a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin, to the Russian sector.
  • PBSUCCESS
    Operation PBSUCCESS

    The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'?tat was a covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzm?n, the democratically-elected President of Guatemala....
    : (Also PBS) Central Intelligence Agency covert operation to overthrow the Arbenz government in Guatemala.
  • RAINBOW
    Project Rainbow

    Project Rainbow is the name commonly given to two separate United States secret military projects in the 20th century, both concerned with stealth and radar invisibility: one of which is considered a conspiracy theory while the other appears to be factual....
    : Project to reduce the radar cross section
    Radar cross section

    Radar cross section is a measure of how detectable an object is with a radar. When radar waves are beamed at a target, only a certain amount is reflected back....
     (RCS) of the Lockheed U-2
    Lockheed U-2

    The Lockheed Corporation U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency....
     Spy Plane. Succeeded by GUSTO.
  • SHERWOOD: CIA radio broadcast program in Nicaragua
    Nicaragua

    Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
     begun on May 1, 1954.
  • THERMOS: Unclassified codeword used in lieu of RAINBOW
    Project Rainbow

    Project Rainbow is the name commonly given to two separate United States secret military projects in the 20th century, both concerned with stealth and radar invisibility: one of which is considered a conspiracy theory while the other appears to be factual....
  • TPAJAX
    Operation Ajax

    The 1953 Iranian Coup d??tat was the Western covert operation that deposed the democratically-elected Government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq; the CIA and MI6 effected it by aiding and abetting pro-West Iranians and mutinous Iranian army officers....
    : Joint US/UK operation to overthrow Mohammed Mossadeq, Prime Minister of Iran
    Iran

    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
  • TSS: Technical Services Staff
    Technical Services Staff

    Technical Services Staff is the United States Central Intelligence Agency component responsible for providing supporting gadgets, disguise, forgery, Steganography, weapons and assassinations....
  • WASHTUB
    Operation WASHTUB

    Operation Operation WASHTUB was a CIA-organized covert operation to plant a phony Soviet arms cache in Nicaragua to demonstrate Guatemalan ties to Moscow....
    : Operation to plant Soviet arms in Nicaragua


Organizations

  • CATIDE: Bundesnachrichtendienst
    Bundesnachrichtendienst

    The Bundesnachrichtendienst is the foreign intelligence agency of the Germany government, under the control of the German Chancellery. Its headquarters are in Pullach near Munich, and Berlin ....
  • KUBARK: CIA Headquarters
  • KUCAGE: CIA Overseas Paramilitary / Propaganda Operations
  • KUCLUB: Office of Communications
  • KUDESK: Counterintelligence department
  • KUDOVE: Office of the director
  • KUFIRE: Intelligence
  • KUGOWN: Propaganda
    Propaganda

    Propaganda is the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people. As opposed to Objectivity providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience....
  • KUHOOK: Negotiations/Logistics (unsure)
  • KUSODA: CIA Interrogators
  • LNWILT: US Counterintelligence Corps (CIC)
  • ODACID: United States Department of States/U.S. embassy
  • ODEARL: United States Department of Defense
    United States Department of Defense

    The United States Department of Defense is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the Military of the United States....
  • ODENVY: Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Federal Bureau of Investigation

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the primary unit in the United States United States Department of Justice, serving as both a Law enforcement agency body and a domestic intelligence agency....
  • ODOATH: United States Navy
    United States Navy

    The United States Navy is the navy of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy currently has approximately 331,682 personnel on active duty as of 31 December 2008 and 124,000 in the United States Navy Reserve....
  • ODOPAL United States Army Counterintelligence Corps
  • ODUNIT: United States Air Force
    United States Air Force

    The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the Military of the United States and one of the uniformed services of the United States....
  • ODYOKE: Federal Government of the United States
    Federal government of the United States

    The Federal Government of the United States is the central current reigning United States governmental body, established by the United States Constitution....
  • QKFLOWAGE: United States Information Agency
    United States Information Agency

    The United States Information Agency , which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy". Its critics, however, described its goal as propaganda....
  • SKIMMER: The "Group" CIA cover organization supporting Castillo Armas.
  • SGUAT: CIA Station in Guatemala
  • SMOTH: Secret Intelligence Service
    Secret Intelligence Service

    The Secret Intelligence Service , colloquially known as MI6 is the United Kingdom's external intelligence agency, part of the country's United Kingdom intelligence community....
     (MI6)
  • SYNCARP: The "Junta," Castillo Armas' political organization headed by Cordova Cerna.
  • UNIFRUIT: United Fruit Company
    United Fruit Company

    The United Fruit Company was a major United States corporation that traded tropical fruit grown in Third World plantations and sold in the United States and Europe....


Persons

  • AEFOXTROT: Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, a Soviet defector
  • AELADLE: Anatoliy Golitsyn
    Anatoliy Golitsyn

    Anatoliy Mikhaylovich Golitsyn Order of the British Empire is a Soviet Union KGB defector and author of a 1984 book called New Lies for Old, which promoted conspiracy theories about a long-term deception strategy perpetrated by the KGB....
    , a Soviet defector
  • AMLASH: Rolando Cubela Secades, a Cuban official involved in plot to kill Fidel Castro
    Fidel Castro

    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976 and then president, premier until his resignation from the office in February 2008....
     in 1963
  • AMQUACK: Che Guevara
    Che Guevara

    Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentina Marxism revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader....
    , Argentinian guerrilla
    Guerrilla warfare

    Guerrilla warfare is the Irregular warfare warfare and combat with which a small group of combatants use mobile Military tactics to combat a larger and less mobile formal army....
     leader
  • AMTHUG: Fidel Castro
    Fidel Castro

    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976 and then president, premier until his resignation from the office in February 2008....
    , president
    President

    President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership ....
     of Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
  • ESQUIRE: James Bamford
    James Bamford

    James Bamford is an American bestselling author and journalist who writes about United States intelligence agency. He was raised in Natick, Massachusetts, spent three years in the United States Navy as an intelligence analyst during the Vietnam War, and used the GI Bill to earn his law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston....
    , author of "The Puzzle Palace"
  • GPFLOOR: Lee Harvey Oswald
    Lee Harvey Oswald

    Lee Harvey Oswald was, according to three United States government investigations, the John F. Kennedy assassination of President of the United States John F....
    , J.F. Kennedy's assassin
  • GPIDEAL: John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy

    John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
    , US president
  • GRALLSPICE: Pyotr Semonovich Popov, Soviet defector
  • JMBLUG: John S. Peurifoy, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala
  • KUMOTHER: James Jesus Angleton
    James Jesus Angleton

    James Jesus Angleton , known to colleagues as Jim and nicknamed "the Kingfisher", was a long-serving chief of the Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence staff ....
    , head of the CIAs counter intelligence
  • PANCHO: Carlos Castillo Armas
    Carlos Castillo Armas

    Carlos Castillo Armas was Presidents of Guatemala of Guatemala from July 8, 1954 until his assassination in 1957....
    , President of Guatemala, also RUFUS
  • RUFUS: Carlos Castillo Armas
    Carlos Castillo Armas

    Carlos Castillo Armas was Presidents of Guatemala of Guatemala from July 8, 1954 until his assassination in 1957....
    , President of Guatemala, also PANCHO
  • SKILLET: Whiting Willauer, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras.
  • STANDEL: Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala


Places

  • BOND: Puerto Barrios
    Puerto Barrios

    Puerto Barrios is a city in Guatemala, located within the Gulf of Honduras at. The bay in which the harbour is located is called Bahia de Amatique....
    , Guatemala
  • DTFROGS: El Salvador
    El Salvador

    El Salvador is the smallest country in the Americas and Central America by size, and the most densely populated nation in Central America. It borders on the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras....
  • HTKEEPER: Mexico City
    Mexico City

    Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
  • HTPLUME: Panama
    Panama

    Panama, officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America and, in turn, North America. Situated on an isthmus connecting North and South America, some categorize it as a transcontinental nation....
  • JMMADD: CIA airbase near city of Retalhuleu
    Retalhuleu

    The city of Retalhuleu is in south-western Guatemala. It is the departmental seat of Retalhuleu department as well as the municipal seat of Retalhuleu municipality....
    , Guatemala
  • JMTIDE: CIA airbase in Puerto Cabezas
    Puerto Cabezas

    Puerto Cabezas is a municipality in the North Atlantic Coast Departments of Nicaragua of Nicaragua.The municipality and the entire region are indigenous lands....
    , Nicaragua
    Nicaragua

    Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
  • JMTRAX: CIA covert airbase/training camp in Guatemala
  • JMWAVE
    JMWAVE

    JMWAVE or JM/WAVE or JM WAVE was the CIA cryptonym for a major, secret United States covert operations and intelligence gathering station operated by the Central Intelligence Agency from 1961 until 1968....
    : CIA station in Miami (which operated against Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
    )
  • KMFLUSH: Nicaragua
    Nicaragua

    Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democracy republic. It is the largest state in Central America with an area of 130,000 km2, about the size of the state of New York....
  • KMPAJAMA: Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
  • KMPLEBE: Peru
    Peru

    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  • LCPANGS: Costa Rica
  • LIONIZER: Guatemalan refugee group in Mexico
  • PBPRIME: the United States of America
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
  • PBRUMEN: Cuba
    Cuba

    The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
  • SARANAC: Training site in Nicaragua
  • SCRANTON: Training base for radio operators near Nicaragua.
  • WSBURNT: Guatemala
    Guatemala

    Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
  • WSHOOFS: Honduras
    Honduras

    Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....


Other

  • BGGYPSY: Communist
  • ESCOBILLA: Guatemalan national
  • ESMERALDITE: labor informant affiliated with AFL
    American Federation of Labor

    The American Federation of Labor was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1886 by Samuel Gompers as a reorganization of its predecessor, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions....
    -sponsored labor movement
  • ESSENCE: Guatemalan anti-Communist leader
  • FJHOPEFUL: military base
  • LCFLUTTER: Polygraph
    Polygraph

    A polygraph is an instrument that measures and records several physiological responses such as blood pressure, pulse, Respiration breathing rhythms body temperature and Galvanic skin response while the subject is asked and answers a series of questions, on the theory that false answers will produce distinctive measurements....
    , sometimes supplanted by truth drug
    Truth drug

    A truth drug is a psychoactive drug used to attempt to obtain information from an unwilling subject, most often by a police, intelligence, or military organization....
    s    : Sodium Amytal (amobarbital
    Amobarbital

    Amobarbital is a drug that is a barbiturate derivative. It has sedative-hypnotic and analgesic properties. It is a white crystalline powder with no odor and a slightly bitter taste....
    ), Sodium Pentothal (thiopental), and Seconal (secobarbital
    Secobarbital

    Secobarbital is a barbiturate derivative drug. It possesses anaesthetic, anticonvulsant, sedative and hypnotic properties. In the United Kingdom, it was known as Quinalbarbitone....
    ) to induce regression in the subject.
  • LIENVOY: Wiretap or Intercept Program
  • RYBAT: Indicates that the information is very sensitive
  • SLINC: Telegram indicator for PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida.


Unidentified codewords

AEBARMAN, AEFOX, AEROPLANE, AMWORLD, AVBLIMP, AVBRANDY, AVBUSY, CABOUNCE, CLOWER, ECJOB, ESGAIN, ESODIC, FJDEFLECT, GOLIATH, HBDRILL, HOPEFUL, JUBATE, JUBILIST, KUHOOK, KUJUMP, KUPALM, KURIOT, KUTUBE, LCPANES, LICOZY, ODIBEX, PBCABOOSE

Further reading

  • Leo D. Carl, The International Dictionary of Intelligence, Mavin Books, 1990, p. 107
  • Phillip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Stonehill Publishing, 1975, p. 48
  • David Wise, Molehunt, Random House, 1992, p.19
  • John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies, 1978
  • Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954 - 1974, CIA History Staff, 1992.
  • Richard M. Bissell, Jr., "[...] Cable Handling Procedures," SAPC-21143, 8 November 1957.
  • DPD Contracting Officer, "Change of Project Funds Obligated under Contract No. SS-100," DPD-2827-59, 30 April 1959.