- ALERT: U.S. civil defense exercise 1954 to 1962.
- APPLE: Agent team seen in 1952 by CIA/OPC as best bet to successfully continue BGFIEND Project aimed to harass/overthrow Albanian communist regime. Team was arrested, communists controlled radio ops for 16 months, fatally luring more agents into Albania in 1953, and trying and executing original agents in 1954 to suddenly end BGFIEND.
- AQUATONE: Project name for Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft project, succeeded by CHALICE.
- ARGON: satellite-intelligence mapping project 1962 to 1964.
- ARTICHOKE: Anti-interrogation project. Precursor to MKULTRA.
- AZORIAN: Project to raise the Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean.
- BGGYPSY: Communist.
- BIRCH
- BLACKSHIELD: A-12 aircraft reconnaissance missions off Okinawa.
- BLUEBIRD: mind control program
- BOND: Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.
- BYEMAN: A retired control system covering certain overhead collection systems, including CORONA and OXCART. Transferred to TALENT and KEYHOLE.
- CAMTEX: Undercover FBI operation targeting Carlos Marcello (CAMTEX, for Carlos Marcello, Texas). According to informant Jack Ronald Van Laningham, in 1985 Marcello admitted he was responsible for having President Kennedy assassinated.
- CATIDE: Bundesnachrichtendienst
- CHALICE: Second name for the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft project. Preceded by AQUATONE.
- CHARITY: Joint CIA/OSO-Italian Naval Intelligence information gathering operation against Albania (1948–1951).
- CHATTER: Identification and testing of drugs to be used in interrogations and the recruitment of agents.
- CHERRY: Covert assassination / destabilization operation during Vietnam war, targeting Prince (later King) Norodom Sihanouk and the government of Cambodia. Disbanded.
- CONDOR: 1970s CIA interference in Latin American governments, some allege in the coup and assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile.
- CORONA: Satellite photo system.
- DTFROGS: El Salvador
- ECHELON: Worldwide signals intelligence and analysis network run by the UKUSA Community.
- ESCOBILLA: Guatemalan national.
- ESMERALDITE: Labor informant affiliated with 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 Mir Aimal Kasi and later Osama bin Laden.
- FIR
- FJGROUND: Grafenwohr, West Germany paramilitary training ground.
- FJHOPEFUL: Military base.
- FPBERM: Yugoslavia
- FUBELT: Project to prevent Salvador Allende rise to power, and to promote a military coup in Chile.
- GANGPLANK: KYP, Greek Central Intelligence Service (1952–1974)
- GESENIOR: Afghan tribal agents working with the CIA during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Later called FDTRODPINT.
- GPFLOOR: Lee Harvey Oswald, J.F. Kennedy's alleged assassin.
- GPIDEAL: John F. Kennedy, US president.
- GRALLSPICE: Sergei Popov (bioweaponeer), Soviet defector.
- GUSTO: Project to design a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Succeeded RAINBOW. Succeeded by OXCART.
- HBFAIRY: France
- IAFEATURE: Operation to support UNITA and FNLA during the Angolan civil war.
- IDIOM: Initial work by Convair on a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Later moved into GUSTO.
- IVY BELLS: Monitoring of a Soviet communications cable lying on the bottom of the Sea of Okhotsk.
- Project JBEDICT: Tripartite Stay-Behind project.
- JENNIFER: Document control system for Project AZORIAN.
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- 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).
- KEYHOLE: Compartment created August 1960 for satellite intelligence.
- LANYARD: Satellite intelligence 1963.
- LEMON
- LNWILT: 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.
- MOCKINGBIRD: Recruitment of American journalists for CIA work.
- 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".
- MURKIN: Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination files. Cryptonym possibly based on Martin lUtheR KINg.
- OAK: Operation to assassinate suspected South Vietnamese collaborators during Vietnam war.
- OXCART: Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft. Succeeded GUSTO.
- PANCHO: Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala, also RUFUS.
- PAPERCLIP: US recruiting of German scientists after World War II.
- PHOENIX: Vietnam covert intelligence/assassination operation.
- PINE
- RAINBOW: Project to reduce the radar cross section (RCS) of the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Succeeded by GUSTO.
- RUFF: Satellite imagery intelligence codeword.
- RUFUS: Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala, also PANCHO.
- RYBAT: Indicates that the information is very sensitive.
- 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: Investigation of psychic phenomena.
- SYNCARP: The "Junta," Castillo Armas' political organization headed by Cordova Cerna.
- TALENT: Codeword created in the mid-1950s for the Lockheed U-2.
- THERMOS: Unclassified codeword used in lieu of RAINBOW
- 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.
- OPERATION TILT: The CIA's name for "an operation put together by John Martino, who was fronting for his boss Santo Trafficante and his roommate Johnny Roselli". OPERATION TILT used "some of the same people working on the CIA-Mafia plots in the spring of 1963 ... involved sending a Cuban exile team into Cuba to retrieve Soviet technicians supposedly ready to defect and reveal the existence of Soviety missiles still on the island".
- TRINE: Signal intelligence codeword.
- TROPIC: Air operations flown over North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union by CAT pilots during the 1950s.
- TSS: CIA Technical Services Staff.
- UMBRA: Particularly sensitive communications intelligence.
- UNIFRUIT: United Fruit Company Note: unlikely to be a cryptonym as such.
- VALUABLE: British MI-run Albanian operations 1949 to 1953.
- VENONA: Interception and decoding of Soviet messages 1940 to 1948.
- WASHTUB: Operation to plant Soviet arms in Nicaragua.
- WBFISHY: British Foreign Office
- WSBURNT: Guatemala
- WSHOOFS: Honduras
- WTF: WikiLeaks Task Force
- ZAPATA: Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961.
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