CIA Cryptonym - Known Cryptonyms

Known Cryptonyms

• AEFOXTROT: Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, a Soviet defector.
• AELADLE: Anatoliy Golitsyn, a Soviet defector.
• AMBIDDY-1: Manuel Artime.
• AMBLOOD: Luis Torroella y Martin Rivero, a CIA agent.
• AMCLATTER-1: Bernard Barker, one of the Watergate burglars.
• AMBUD
• AMCLEOPATRA
• AMCOBRA
• AMCROW
• AMCRUZ or AMCRUX?
• AMFOX
• AMGLOSSY
• AMHALF
• AMJUDGE
• AMLASH: Plan to assassinate Fidel Castro associated mainly with Rolando Cubela. AMLASH has been referred to as a "basically one-person Cubela operation".
• AMLASH-1: Rolando Cubela Secades, a Cuban official involved in plot to kill Fidel Castro in 1963.
• AMOT: Cuban exile informants of David Sánchez Morales.
• AMPALM-4
• AMQUACK: Che Guevara, Argentinian (later Cuban) guerrilla leader.
• AMTHUG: Fidel Castro, Prime Minister of Cuba 1959-1976.
• AMTRUNK: A CIA plan by New York Times journalist Tad Szulc initiated in February 1963, also called the "Leonardo Plan," that was "an attempt to find disgruntled military officials in Cuba who might be willing to recruit higher military officials in a plot to overthrow Castro", as well as to overthrow the Cuban government "by means of a conspiracy among high-level ... leaders of the government culminating in a coup d'etat". AMTRUNK has also been described as a "CIA-DIA Task Force on Cuba", and as "a plodding bureaucratic effort" that "had worked for months to identify Cuban leaders who might be able to stage a coup".
• AMWHIP-1: Business associate of Santo Trafficante, Jr. who was in contact with Rolando Cubela (AMLASH) in 1963.
• AMWORLD: A plan initiated June 28, 1963, to overthrow the Castro regime in a coup on December 1, 1963 (C-Day), that would have installed Juan Almeida Bosque, a top ranking Cuban military officer, as the new head of state. Some Cuban exiles referred to C-Day as "Plan Omega".
• DBACHILLES: 1995 effort to support a military coup in Iraq.
• DBROCKSTARS: Iraqi spy ring recruited by the CIA shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
• HTAUTOMAT: Photointerpretation center for the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft project.
• HTKEEPER: Mexico City
• HTLINGUAL: Mail interception operation 1952-1973.
• HTNEIGH: National Committee for Free Albania (NCFA)
• HTPLUME: Panama
• JMADD: CIA air base near city of Retalhuleu, Guatemala 1960-1961
• JMATE: CIA Air operations office for the Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961
• JMBELL: CIA office (location unknown) 1961
• JMBLUG: John Peurifoy, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala.
• JMFURY: Preparatory strikes against Cuban airfields before Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961
• JMGLOW: CIA Washington 1961
• JMTIDE: CIA air base in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua 1961
• JMTRAX: CIA covert air base/training camp in Guatemala 1960-1961
• JMWAVE: CIA station in Miami (that operated against Cuba).
• JMZIP: CIA office (location unknown) 1961
• KMFLUSH: Nicaragua
• KMPAJAMA: Mexico
• KMPLEBE: Peru
• KUBARK: CIA Headquarters, Langley
• KUBASS: CIA Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T)
• KUCAGE: CIA Overseas Paramilitary / Propaganda Operations
• KUCLUB: CIA Office of Communications
• KUDESK: CIA Counterintelligence department
• KUDOVE: CIA Deputy Director for Operations (DDO)
• KUFIRE: CIA Foreign Intelligence Staff
• KUGOWN: CIA Psychological and Paramilitary Operations Staff
• KUHOOK: CIA Paramilitary Operations Staff
• KUJAZZ: CIA Office of National Estimates
• KUJUMP: CIA Contact Division
• KUKNOB: CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI)
• KUMONK: CIA Office of Political Analysis (OPA)
• KUMOTHER: James Jesus Angleton, head of CIA counter intelligence.
• KUPALM
• KURIOT: CIA Technical Services Division.
• KUSODA: Center for CIA Security.]).
• KUTUBE: CIA Foreign Intelligence Staff.]).
• LCFLUTTER: Polygraph, sometimes supplanted by truth drugs: Sodium Amytal (amobarbital), Sodium Pentothal (thiopental), and Seconal (secobarbital) to induce regression in the subject.
• LCPANGS: Costa Rica
• LIENVOY: Wiretap or intercept program.
• LINCOLN: Ongoing operation involving Basque separatist group ETA.
• LIONIZER: Guatemalan refugee group in Mexico.
• LITEMPO: Spy network, operated between 1956–1969, to exchange information with Mexican top officers.
• LITEMPO-2: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico 1964-1970.
• LITEMPO-8: Luis Echeverría, President of Mexico 1970-1976.
• MHCHAOS: Surveillance of antiwar activists during the Vietnam War.
• MKCHICKWIT: Identify new drug developments in Europe and Asia and obtain samples, part of MKSEARCH.
• MKDELTA: Stockpiling of lethal biological and chemical agents, subsequently became MKNAOMI.
• MKNAOMI: Stockpiling of lethal biological and chemical agents, successor to MKDELTA.
• MKOFTEN: Testing effects of biological and chemical agents, part of MKSEARCH.
• MKSEARCH: MKULTRA after 1964, mind control research.
• MKULTRA: Mind control research. MKULTRA means MK (scientific projects) and ULTRA (top classification reference, re: ULTRA code breaking in World War II. Renamed MKSEARCH in 1964.
• ODACID: United States Department of State/U.S. embassy
• ODEARL: United States Department of Defense
• ODENVY: Federal Bureau of Investigation
• ODOATH: United States Navy
• ODOPAL: Counterintelligence Corps, United States Army
• ODUNIT: United States Air Force
• ODYOKE: Federal government of the United States
• PBFORTUNE: CIA project to supply forces opposed to Guatemala's President Arbenz with weapons, supplies, and funding; predecessor to PBSUCCESS.
• PBHISTORY: CIA project to gather and analyze documents from the Arbenz government in Guatemala that would incriminate Arbenz as a communist.
• PBJOINTLY: Operation that built a tunnel from the American sector of Berlin, to the Russian sector.
• PBPRIME: the United States
• PBRUMEN: Cuba
• PBSUCCESS: (Also PBS) CIA covert operation to overthrow the Arbenz government in Guatemala in 1954.
• POCAPON: Taketora Ogata, Japanese politician in the 1950s.
• PODAM: Matsutarō Shōriki, Japanese businessman and politician.
• QJWIN: European assassin. Also described as an "assassin recruiter".
• QKCIGAR: United States Government
• QKELUSION: West German Social Democratic Party (SPD)
• QKENCHANT: CIA program associated with E. Howard Hunt (1918–2007), who with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House's "plumbers" — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks".
• QKFLOWAGE: United States Information Agency
• SMOTH: UK Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
• TPBEDAMN: U.S. operation to counter communist subversion in Iran with propaganda and bribes.
• TPAJAX: Joint US/UK operation to overthrow Mohammed Mossadeq, Prime Minister of Iran.
• TPCREDO: Italy
• TPROACH: Yugoslavia
• TPTONIC: National Committee for Free Europe (NCFE)
• ZRRIFLE: An assassination plot targeting Fidel Castro