CIA cryptonym

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CIA cryptonyms are

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Format of cryptonyms

CIA cryptonyms sometimes contain a two character prefix called a digraph, which designates a geographical or functional area.[2] Certain digraphs were changed over time; for example, the digraph for the Soviet Union changed at least twice.[3]

The rest is either an arbitrary dictionary 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.[3]

Examples from publications by former CIA personnel show that the terms "code name" and "cryptonym" can refer to the names of operations as well as to individual persons.[

wiretap the Soviet and Cuban embassies was code-named ENVOY.[7]

Some cryptonyms relate to more than one subject, e.g., a group of people.[3] 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 can also be written LICOZY-3, or just L-3.[3]

Digraphs

Partial list of digraphs and probable definitions

Unidentified digraphs

DT, ER, FJ, HB, HO, HT, JU, KM, KO, QK, SC, SE, SG, WO, WS, ZI

Known cryptonyms

Operations and projects

See also

Notes

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    Assassination Records Review Board (September 30, 1998). "Chapter Five: The Standards for Review: Review Board "Common Law"". Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board
    (PDF). Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. pp. 52–53. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
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  4. ^ Wallace and Melton, pp. 88–102
  5. ^ Helms 2003, p. 216
  6. ^ Helms 2003, p. 197
  7. ^ Weiner 2008, p. 258
  8. ^ a b c d David Wise, Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996 p.15
  9. ^ "'Our War' in Angola". Time. May 22, 1978.
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  11. ^ a b Seymour M. Hersh, The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, New York, Random House, 1991 pp. 5
  12. ISBN 0-312-42517-1
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  13. ^ a b Kai Bird, The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames, Crown Publishing Group, New York, 2014 p. 95
  14. ^ Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison, The CIA's Secret War in Tibet, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002, p. 269
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Richard H. Cummings, "From the Secret Pages of History", Kyiv Post, December 21, 2021
  16. ^ a b c d e Cummings, Richard H. Cold War Radio: The Dangerous History of American Broadcasting in Europe, 1950-1989.
  17. ^ CIA/IWG 2007, p. 5.
  18. ^ Ronald Kessler, Spy vs. Spy: Stalking Soviet Spies in America, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988 p. 53
  19. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 878
  20. ISBN 1-875284-86-9
  21. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2009, p. 262
  22. ^ a b c d e f g h Waldron & Hartmann 2009, p. 204
  23. ^ a b Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 215
  24. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2009, p. 38
  25. ^ a b c d Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 794
  26. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2009, p. 35
  27. ^ a b Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 216
  28. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2009 p. 224
  29. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2009, p. 19
  30. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2009, p. 13
  31. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 589
  32. ^ CIA/IWG 2007, p. 13.
  33. ^ a b Benjamin Weiser, A Secret Life: The Polish Officer, His Covert Mission, and the Price He Paid to Save His Country, New York: PublicAffairs, 2003 p. 344
  34. ^ a b c d e f g h i Mendez, Antonio J.; Mendez, Jonna (2019). The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold War.
  35. ^ Smith 2003, p. 377.
  36. ^ David Ignatius, "A Big Man To Watch In Baghdad", Washington Post, February 1, 2004
  37. ^ Annie Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins. (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2019), p. 371-383
  38. ^ Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack
  39. ^ CIA/IWG 2007, p. 26.
  40. ^ a b c d e f g h i j The Case of Otto Albrecht Alfred von Bolschwing
  41. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n CIA/IWG 2007, p. 36.
  42. ^ a b c d e f CIA/IWG 2007, p. 37.
  43. ^ a b c d e f g h i Agee, Philip. 1975. Inside the Company: CIA Diary
  44. ^ "Libro descubre labor de la CIA en México :: La Razón :: 4 de marzo de 2016". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-03-24.
  45. ^ George Washington University
  46. ^ a b "El espía que impactó a México". [El Universal] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2009-08-04.
  47. ^ "LITEMPO: Los ojos de la CIA en Tlatelolco".
  48. ^ "La Jornada: Documenta periodista la cercanía de la CIA con el poder en México". 19 May 2011.
  49. ^ "Archives". Los Angeles Times. 27 March 1996.
  50. ^ "Nothing found for Blog 2008 04 Six Questions for Jefferson Morley on Our Man in Mexico".
  51. ^ a b c d Forging an Intelligence Partnership: CIA and the Origins of the BND, 1949–56
  52. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2009, pp. 35, 136
  53. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 527
  54. ^ CIA/IWG 2007, p. 47.
  55. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2009, p. 709
  56. ISBN 978-0-300-04412-6
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  57. ISBN 978-1-4381-3018-7
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  58. ^ CIA/IWG 2007, pp. 1, 57.
  59. ^ OBOPUS/BGFIEND, RG263, Various documents, include Vol. 6, Box 47, National Archives, College Park, MD
  60. ^ a b c Sharp 2012
  61. ^ a b Smith 2003
  62. ^ Antonio J. Mendez and Jonna Mendez, "How the CIA Used the Illusions of Magicians to Fool the KGB", Daily Beast, June 8, 2019
  63. ^ a b Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, p.372
  64. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 894
  65. ^ Kevin Conley Ruffner, Eagle and Swastika:CIA and Nazi War Criminals and Collaborators, draft working paper, chapter Thirteen, p.15
  66. ^ Pedlow & Welzenbach, p. 274.
  67. ^ Contracting officer, Change of Project Funds Obligated Under Contract No. SS-100, Convair, San Diego, California, Project CHAMPION, DPD-2827-59, CIA, Washington, DC, 30 April 1959.
  68. ^ Robarge, David (2005). "McCone and the Secret Wars: Counterintelligence and Security". John McCone as Director of Central Intelligence, 1961–1965 (Part 2). Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence. pp. 328–329. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  69. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 37
  70. ^ Pedlow & Welzenbach, p. 129.
  71. ^ John B. Roberts II and Elizabeth A. Roberts, Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope, New York: AMACOM, 2009 p. 82
  72. ^ a b Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison, The CIA's Secret War in Tibet, Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002, p.
  73. ISBN 978-0-7643-3513-6
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  74. ^ Bissell, Richard M., Jr., "[...] Cable Handling Procedures", SAPC-21143, CIA, Washington, DC, 8 November 1957.
  75. ^ OBOPUS/BGFIEND, AHMET KABASHI, RG263, Name Files, National Archives, College Park, MD
  76. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 471
  77. ^ Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 438

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