Editing CIA cryptonym (section)

==Operations and projects==
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* APPLE: Agent team seen in 1952 by CIA/OPC as best bet to successfully continue BGFIEND Project aimed to harass/overthrow [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania|Albanian communist regime]]. Team was arrested, communists controlled radio ops for 16 months, luring more agents into Albania in 1953, and trying and executing original agents in 1954 to suddenly end BGFIEND.<ref>OBOPUS/BGFIEND, RG263, Various documents, include Vol. 6, Box 47, National Archives, College Park, MD</ref>
* [[Project ARTICHOKE|ARTICHOKE]]:  Researching methods of interrogation. Precursor to MKULTRA.  Primary goal of Project Artichoke was to determine whether a person could be involuntarily made to perform an act of attempted assassination. The project also studied the effects of mind control and hypnosis, forced addiction to (and subsequent withdrawal from) morphine, and other chemicals, including LSD, to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in victims.
* [[Azorian|AZORIAN]]: Project to raise the [[Soviet submarine K-129 (1960)|Soviet submarine K-129]] from the Pacific Ocean.<ref name="Sharp 2012">Sharp 2012</ref>
* BGGYPSY: Communist.
* BIRCH
* BLACKSHIELD: A-12 aircraft reconnaissance missions off Okinawa.<ref name=smith2003>Smith 2003</ref>
* BLUEBIRD: mind control program
* BOND: Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.
* CATIDE: [[Bundesnachrichtendienst]].
* CHARITY: Joint CIA/OSO-Italian Naval Intelligence information gathering operation against Albania (1948–1951).
* CHERRY: Covert assassination / destabilization operation during Vietnam War, targeting Prince (later King) [[Norodom Sihanouk]] and the government of Cambodia. Disbanded.
* CKTAW: Wiretap operation in Moscow, Russia.<ref>Antonio J. Mendez and Jonna Mendez, [https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-cia-used-the-illusions-of-magicians-to-fool-the-kgb "How the CIA Used the Illusions of Magicians to Fool the KGB"], ''Daily Beast'', June 8, 2019</ref>
* DTFROGS: El Salvador.
* ESCOBILLA: Guatemalan national.
* ESMERALDITE: Labor informant affiliated with [[American Federation of Labor|AFL]]-sponsored labor movement.
* ESQUIRE: [[James Bamford]], author of ''The Puzzle Palace''.
* ESSENCE: Guatemalan anti-communist leader.
* FDTRODPINT: Afghan tribal agents, formerly known as GESENIOR, reactivated in the 1990s by the CIA to hunt [[1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters|Mir Aimal Kasi]] and later [[Osama bin Laden]].<ref name="Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, p.372">Steve Coll, ''Ghost Wars'', p.372</ref>
* FIR
* [[Project FUBELT|FUBELT]]: operation against [[Salvador Allende]] in Chile.
* FJGROUND: [[Grafenwöhr]],  Germany paramilitary training ground.
* FJHOPEFUL: Military base.
* FPBERM: Yugoslavia
* GESENIOR: Afghan tribal agents working with the CIA during the [[Soviet–Afghan War]]. Later called FDTRODPINT.<ref name="Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, p.372" />
* GPFLOOR: [[Lee Harvey Oswald]].<ref name="ARRB" />
* GPIDEAL: [[John F. Kennedy]], US president.<ref>Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 894</ref>
* GRATTIC: [[Pyotr Semyonovich Popov|Pyotr Popov]], CIA Soviet agent.<ref>Kevin Conley Ruffner, [https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA%20AND%20NAZI%20WAR%20CRIM.%20AND%20COL.%20CHAP.%2011-21%2C%20DRAFT%20WORKING%20PAPER_0003.pdf Eagle and Swastika:CIA and Nazi War Criminals and Collaborators], draft working paper, chapter Thirteen, p.15</ref>
* [[Convair KINGFISH#Project Gusto|GUSTO]]: Project to design a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Succeeded [[Project Rainbow|RAINBOW]]. Succeeded by [[Project OXCART|OXCART]].<ref name=pedlow274>Pedlow & Welzenbach, p. 274.</ref>
* HBFAIRY: France
* HTCURIO: American or U.S. (Not Government)
* [[Operation IA Feature|IAFEATURE]]: Operation to support the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ([[UNITA]]) and the [[National Liberation Front of Angola]] (FNLA) during the [[Angolan Civil War|Angolan civil war]].
* IDIOM: Initial work by [[Convair]] on a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Later moved into [[Convair Kingfish#Project Gusto|GUSTO]].<ref>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.</ref>
* Project JBEDICT: Tripartite Stay-Behind project.
* JENNIFER: Document control system for Project AZORIAN.<ref name="Sharp 2012" />
* KEMPSTER: Project to reduce the [[radar cross section]] (RCS) of the inlets of the [[Lockheed A-12]] reconnaissance aircraft.
* KMHYMNAL: Maine-built motor sailer JUANITA purchased by CIA to use as floating, clandestine, propaganda broadcast facility in Mediterranean/Adriatic (1950–53).
* LEMON
* LNWILT: [[Counterintelligence Corps|US Counterintelligence Corps]] (CIC)
* LPMEDLEY: Surveillance of telegraphic information exiting or entering the United States.
* MAGPIE: US Army Labor Service Organization
* MATADOR: Project to recover section of Soviet submarine K-129 dropped during Project AZORIAN.  Cancelled after Soviet protest.<ref name="Sharp 2012" />
* [[MKNAOMI|MK NAOMI]]:  successor to the MKULTRA project focusing on biological projects including biological warfare agents — specifically, to store materials that could either incapacitate or kill a test subject and to develop devices for the diffusion of such materials.
* [[MKUltra|MK ULTRA]]:  a human experimentation program to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Successor to ARTICHOKE; succeeded by MKNAOMI.
* [[Project Mockingbird|MOCKINGBIRD]]: a wire tapping operation of two journalists in 1963 to determine the source of leaked information<ref name="Robarge">{{cite book |last=Robarge |first=David |year=2005 |chapter=McCone and the Secret Wars: Counterintelligence and Security |title=John McCone as Director of Central Intelligence, 1961–1965 (Part 2) |url=https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/john-mccone-director-central-intelligence-1961-1965 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Center for the Study of Intelligence |pages=328–329 |access-date=June 2, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Operation MONGOOSE|MONGOOSE]]: "Primarily a relentless and escalating campaign of sabotage and small [[Cuban exile]] raids that would somehow cause the overthrow of Castro," which "also included plans for an invasion of Cuba in the fall of 1962".<ref>Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 37</ref>
* [[MKNAOMI|NAOMI]]: ''see MK NAOMI''.
* OAK: Operation to assassinate suspected South Vietnamese collaborators during [[Vietnam War]].
* PANCHO: [[Carlos Castillo Armas]], President of Guatemala, also RUFUS.
* [[Operation Paperclip|PAPERCLIP]]: US recruiting of German scientists after World War II.
* [[Phoenix Program|PHOENIX]]: Vietnam covert intelligence/assassination operation.
* PINE
* [[Project Rainbow|RAINBOW]]: Project to reduce the [[radar cross section]] (RCS) of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.<ref>Pedlow & Welzenbach, p. 129.</ref> Succeeded by [[Convair KINGFISH#Project Gusto|GUSTO]].
* QKWAVER: Egypt
* RUFUS: [[Carlos Castillo Armas]], President of Guatemala, also PANCHO.
* RYBAT: Secret.<ref name="ARRB" />
* SARANAC: Training site in Nicaragua.
* SCRANTON: Training base for radio operators near Nicaragua.
* SGCIDER: Germany.
* SGUAT: CIA Station in Guatemala.
* SHERWOOD: CIA radio broadcast program in Nicaragua begun on May 1, 1954.
* SKILLET: Whiting Willauer, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras.
* SKIMMER: The "Group" CIA cover organization supporting [[Castillo Armas]].
* SLINC: Telegram indicator for PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida.
* STANDEL: [[Jacobo Arbenz]], President of Guatemala.
* [[Stargate Project (U.S. Army unit)|STARGATE]]: Investigation of psychic phenomena.
* STBAILEY: political action and propaganda part of STBARNUM.<ref>John B. Roberts II and Elizabeth A. Roberts, ''Freeing Tibet: 50 Years of Struggle, Resilience, and Hope'', New York: AMACOM, 2009 p. 82</ref>
* STBARNUM: [[CIA Tibetan program]] (covert action in Tibet, 1950s onwards).<ref name=Tibet55>Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison, ''The CIA's Secret War in Tibet'', Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2002, p.</ref>
* STCIRCUS: aerial part of STBARNUM.<ref name=Tibet55 />
* STSPIN: Three [[Lockheed EP-3|P-3A Orion]] aircraft operated from Taiwan in 1966.<ref>Pocock, Chris. ''The Black Bats: CIA Spy Flights Over China From Taiwan, 1951–1969''. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-7643-3513-6}}.</ref>
* SYNCARP: The "Junta", Castillo Armas' political organization headed by Cordova Cerna.
* THERMOS: Unclassified codeword used in lieu of [[Project Rainbow|RAINBOW]].<ref>Bissell, Richard M., Jr., "[...] Cable Handling Procedures", SAPC-21143, CIA, Washington, DC, 8 November 1957.</ref>
* THROWOFF/2: Albanian ethnic agent/radio operator employed by Italian Navy Intelligence/CIA in several early Cold War covert operations against Albania. Was captured, operated radio under communist control to lure CIA agents to capture/death, tried in 1954, death sentence commuted, freed after 25 years. CIA paid his son $40,000 in 1996.<ref>OBOPUS/BGFIEND, AHMET KABASHI, RG263, Name Files, National Archives, College Park, MD</ref>
* OPERATION TILT: The CIA's name for "an operation put together by [[John Martino (writer)|John Martino]], who was fronting for his boss Santo Trafficante and his roommate {{sic|hide=y|}} [[John Roselli|Johnny Roselli]]".&NoBreak;<ref>Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 471</ref> OPERATION TILT used "some of the same people working on the CIA-Mafia plots in the spring of 1963&nbsp;... [and] involved sending a Cuban exile team into Cuba to retrieve Soviet technicians supposedly ready to defect and reveal the existence of Soviet missiles still on the island".<ref>Waldron & Hartmann 2005, p. 438</ref>
* TROPIC: Air operations flown over North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union by CAT pilots during the 1950s.<ref name=smith2003 />
* [[MKUltra|ULTRA]]: ''see MK ULTRA''.
* VALUABLE: British MI-run Albanian operations 1949 to 1953.
* [[Operation WASHTUB|WASHTUB]]: Operation to plant Soviet arms in Nicaragua.
* WBFISHY: [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office]].
* WSBURNT: Guatemala.
* WSHOOFS: Honduras.
* ZAPATA: [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]] 1961.
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