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Hello all,

I recall seeing some lists of CIA abbreviations from documents on the forum sometime in the past.

For example: CIAWH/3 is CIA western hemisphere division 3.

Would anybody know of lists similar to this on the forum or on the net? I can't seem to locate them on the forum.

You can also email them to me at johnpetergeraghty@gmail.com

All the best,

John

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Hello all,

I recall seeing some lists of CIA abbreviations from documents on the forum sometime in the past.

For example: CIAWH/3 is CIA western hemisphere division 3.

Would anybody know of lists similar to this on the forum or on the net? I can't seem to locate them on the forum.

You can also email them to me at johnpetergeraghty@gmail.com

All the best,

John

Don't know about the forum list John, but there's this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_cryptonym

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John, here's a list I started to keep myself straight. It includes Larry Hancock's appendix from SWHT. Hope this helps. BK

ACRONYMS & OPERATIONAL CRYPTONYMS – Blown & Known - By W. Kelly.

AARC – Assassination Archives & Research Center.

ABC – American Broadcast Company.

ABZUG COMMITTEE – House Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights, chaired by Rep. Bella Abzug.

ACLU – American Civil Liberties Union.

AE – Soviet Union

AEFOXTROT – Yuri Nosenko

AELADLE – Anatoliy Golitsyn

AF1 – Air Force One – Presidential Aircraft, aka 26000.

AFIS – Air Force Intelligence Service.

AFOSI – Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

AFSA – Armed Forces Security Agency.

AFSAC – Air Force Special Activities Center. UFOs.

AFTAC – Air Force Technical Applications Center.

AGENT ORANGE – Chemical operation in Vietnam.

AID – Agency for International Development.

AIM – Accuracy In Media.

AIR FORCE ONE – Presidential aircraft; aka 26000 when President is aboard.

AJAX – Iranian Coup, 1958.

AKA – Also Know As.

ALES – Said to be code for Alger Hiss.

ALLO – All other countries.

ALPHA 66 – Anti-Castro Cuban commando organization.

AM – CIA crypts concerning Cuba begin with AM.

AMBIDDY1 – Manuel Artime

AMBUD – Cordona

AMCHATTER – Barker

AMCONCERT – Verela

AMDENIM 1 – Alberto Fernandez

AMDENIM 14 – Antonio “Tony” Cuesta

AMHUAWK – Anthony Tony Verona

AMJAVA 4 – Raphael Chi-Chi Quintero

AMLASH – Rolando Cubela Secades

AMLILAC – Infiltrations

AMPATRIN – Michael (Jack) Malone

AMQUACK – Che Guevara

AMSCHROLL – Unidad

AMSHALE – Veciana

AMSERF – Bartes

AMSTRUT – On Island Asset.

AMTHUG – Fidel Castro.

AMTIKI – CRC (accountant/payroll)

AMWHIP 1 – Tepedino -

AP – Associated Press.

APS – American Physiological Society.

ARC – Ad Hoc Requirements Committee and interdepartmental group established 1953 to coordinate intelligence requirements for U-2 program. Succeeded by COMOR 1960.

AQUATRONE – Lockheed U2

ARTICHOKE – Counter-interrogation project

ASIS – Australian Secret Intelligence Service.

ASW – Anti-Submarine Investigations.

ATF – Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms.

AVB – Hungarian intelligence service.

BBC – British Broadcasting Company.

BE – Poland

BGGYPSY – Communist

BLACK FALCONS – Los Halcones Negros

BLUEBELL – CIA Korean War intelligence operation in China, which concluded, “The best and most accurate intelligence came from children.”

BLUEBIRD – CIA mind control program.

BLUEBOOK – USAF UFO Study – [Cover for U2.]

BND – Bundesnachrichtendiesnt. German intelligence service (aka BfV).

BNDD – Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

BNE – Board of National Estimates.

BNNMC – Bethesda National Naval Medical Center, Md.

BOB – Berlin Operations Base – (See: BEA Zenith Secret).

BOND – Puerto Barrios, Guatemala

BTW – By The Way.

CA Staff – Covert Action Staff, a component of the DDP, responsible for covert action projects for the Directorate as well as management and control of some field operations.

CAP – Civil Air Patrol.

CAR – Cuban Aide Relief – Anti-Batista-Anti-Castro group funded by the Philadelphia based CIA Catherwood Fund.

CARLOS – Ruben Perez.

CCC- Cuban Cover Coordinating Subcommittee of Special Group Augmented of the NSC, 1963.

CCCD – Cuban Catholic Committee Dallas.

CBS – Columbia Broadcast System network. CIA media asset.

CDIP – Consolidated Defense Intelligence Budget.

CFI – Committee on Foreign Intelligence.

CHALICE – Lockheed U2 project

CHAOS – Covert CIA operation directed at U.S. citizens and domestic activities.

CHERRY – Assassination program in Vietnam/Cambodia

Choaden – David Atlee Phillips

CIA – Central Intelligence Agency.

CI&CA – Counterintelligence and Investigative Activity.

CIG – Central Intelligence Group, 1946-1947, predecessor of the CIA.

CI – Counter-intelligence.

CI Staff – Counterintelligence Staff, DDP, which maintained virtual control over counterintelligence operations before 1976.

CIDOC – Center for Intercultural Documentation, Cuernavaca, Mexico. Ivan Illich.

CJCS - Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

CK – Soviet Union

CNN – Cable News Network.

CNVA – Committee for Non-Violent Action.

COA – Committee for an Open Archives.

COINTELPRO – FBI counterintelligence program directed at U.S. domestic activities.

COMBAT CIDERS – Presidential System – multi-line air to round communications.

COMINT – Communications Intelligence, technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications, not including foreign press, prop., or public broadcasts.

COMIREX – Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation, established in 1967 to succeed COMOR as the USIB subcommittee responsible for management of collection planning for U2 and satellite recon.

COMOR – Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance, a USIB subcommittee established in 1960 to coordinate intelligence collection requirements among the Departments for the development and operation of all overhead reconnaissance systems.

COMPADRE – CIA operation in Philippines.

COMSEC – Communications Security.

CONDOR – 1970s Operation to replace government in Chile.

CONUS – Continental United States.

COPA – Committee on Political Assassination.

COS – Chief Of Station – CIA, SS, FBI.

CORONA – Satellite photo program

CRC- Cuban Revolutionary Council.

CREEP – Committee to Re-Elect the President. (Nixon).

CRS – Catholic Relief Services.

CSS – Central Security Service.

DAINOLD, Chester – Desmond Fitzgerald

DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

DAS – Defense Attache System.

DCAOFGCPWM – Deutch Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

DCI – Director of Central Intelligence, chief officer of the CIG and CIA.

DCD – Domestic Contacts Division CIA.

DCID – Director of Central Intelligence Directive, a directive issued by the DCI which outlines general policies and procedures to be followed by the intelligence community. It is generally more specific than an NSID.

DCII – Defense Central Index of Investigations.

DCS – Domestic Contact Service, a component of CIG, responsible for domestic sources for foreign intelligence information. Renamed the Domestic Contact Division in 1951; became a component of DDI in 1952; renamed the Domestic Contact Service in 1965; transferred to DDO in 1973 and renamed the Domestic Collection Division.

DDA – CIA Directorate, Administration, established 1950, responsible for personnel, budget, security, medical services and logistical support for overseas operations.

DDCI – Deputy Director, Central Intelligence, second person in line of command at CIA.

DDI – Directorate of Intelligence, CIA, created in 1952, responsible for production of finished intelligence (excluding scientific and technical intelligence since 1963) and for collection of overt information.

DDO – Deputy Director for Operations, CIA, or Directorate for Operations.

DDP – Directorate for Plans, created in 1952 from the integration of OSO and OPC, also known as the “Clandestine Service.” Responsible for clandestine collection, counterintelligence, and covert operations. Renamed Directorate for Operations, 1973.

DDR – Directorate for Research, created in 1962, immediate predecessor to the Directorate for Science and Technology.

DDS – Deputy Director for Support, CIA.

DDS&T – Directorate for Science and Technology, organized in 1963, combining OSI, the Data Processing Staff, the Office of ELINT, the DPD, and the newly created Office of Research and Development.

DEA – Drug Enforcement Administration.

DEFCON – Defense Condition – 1 – 5.

DI - Czechosolvakia

DIA – Defense Intelligence Agency, created by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1961., responsible for production of military intelligence.

DINA – Chilean Secret Police.

DIOP – Defense Intelligence Objectives and Priorities.

DIPO – Defense Investigative Program Office.

DIRC – Defense Investigative Review Council.

DIRDIA – Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

DISC – Defense Industrial Security Command – Security for Defense Contractors, FBI/Military

DIS – Defense Investigative Service.

DISCOVERER – 1st recon satellite, launched by Lockheed, in California, Aug., 1960.

DISIP – Venezuela Intelligence Service.

DIVISION 5 – FBI Counter-intelligence.

DKIQs – Defense Key Intelligence Questions.

DM – Yugoslavia.

DMA- Defense Mapping Agency.

DN – South Korea

DNC – Democratic National Committee (Target of Watergate).

DOD – Domestic Operations Division CIA.

DOJ – Department of Justice.

DPD – Dallas Police Department.

DRE – Directorate Estudente Revolution – Anti-Batista-Anti-Castro Cuban group.

DTFRONGS – El Salvador

ECHELON – UK/USA Joint Signals Intercept program

EDWARDS COMMITTEE – House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil &Constitutional Rights, chaired by former FBI agent Don Edwards of California.

ELINT – Electronic Intelligence, technical and intelligence information derived from interception and processing of foreign electromagnetic radiations such as radar.

ES – Guatemala

ESCOBILLA – Guatemalan national.

ESMERALDITE – Guatemalan agent in place.

ESSENCE – Guatemalan anti-Communist.

EXCOM – Executive Committee, established 1965 for the management of overhead reconnaissance for CIA and DOD.

FASEB – Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Umbrella organization – Consortium of six major biological societies, including the APS – American Physiological Society.

FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation.

FBIC – Foreign Broadcast Information Center (CIA).

FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Agency (OEP).

FFCGIJP – Fund for Constitutional Government Investigative Journalism Project.

FJHOPEFUL – military base.

FISH, Joe – Joseph Fishetti

FLUTTER - Polgraph

FNU – First Name Unknown.

FOIA – Freedom of Information Act.

FOIA/PA – Freedom of Information/Privacy Act.

FPCC – Fair Play for Cuba Committee.

FSO – Foreign Service Officer.

FTD – Foreign Technology Division (now NAIA).

FYDP- Fiscal Year Defense Plan.

FYI – For Your Information

FYEO – For Your Eyes Only

GALBOND – J.C. King (CWHD CIA)

GAO – General Accounting Office.

GDIP – General Defense Intelligence Program.

GEMSTONE – Project - G. Gordon Liddy’s covert operational plans for 1972 election; [includes DIAMOND (“urban guerrillas”); RUBY (Infiltrate Democrats); COAL (Con. Shirley Chisholm); EMERALD (bug Dems airplane communications); SAPPHIRE (prostitutes”); OPAL (bugs); TOPAZ (doc photo); GARNET (fake demonstrations); TURQUOISE (commando raid to take out air conditioning at Dem. National Convention); BRICK (budget for GEMSTONE).

GMAIC – Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee (DCID – 1952-56.

GOLD – CIA Berlin Tunnel operation to tap East German phone lines.

GPFLOOR – CIA slugline given Lee H. Oswald during post assassination investigation.

GPIDEAL – John F. Kennedy (JFK)

GRALLSPICE – Pyotr Semonovich Popov – GRU/CIA Doubleagent in Place in Austria/Germany.

GRU – Soviet Military Intelligence Service.

GSA – General Services Administration.

GT – Soviet Union

HALL, Loren – Lorenzo Pascillo

HIC – House Intelligence Committee. Aka – Pike Committee

HHS – Health and Human Services.

HTKEEPER – Mexico City

HTLINGUAL – Crypt for CIA’s mail oppening and mail cover program which ran from 1952 to 1973. Records said to be destroyed in 1990 by order of CIA General Counsel.

HTPLUME - Panama

HUMINT – Human Intelligence.

HUAC – House Unamerican Activities Committee.

HSCA – House Select Committee on Assassinations.

IA – Angola

IAB – Intelligence Advisory Board, an advisory group to the DCI.

IBM – International Business Machines.

IDA – Institute for Defense Analysis.

IG – Inspector General.

INCA – Information Council of the Americas.

INR – Bureau of Intelligence and Research, State Department.

INS – Immigration & Nationalization Service.

INSCOM – U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command, Fort Meade, Md.

IRR – Investigative Records Repository, Fort Meade, Md.

IRS – Internal Revenue Service.

ISA – International Security Affairs, DOD.

ITM – International Trade Mart.

J-2 – Joint Staff Director for Intelligence, DOD.

JAEIC – Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee. AEC & Military Intelligence.

JAG – Joint Analysis Group, interdepartmental body established 1962 to asses Soviet and Chinese military strengths.

JCS – Joint Chiefs of Staff.

JEDBURGH, Scotland - OSS-OSO training base, WWII, 3 man commando teams sent behind the lines before D-day.

JFK ACT – John F. Kennedy Assassinations Records Act of 1992.

JFKARC – JFK Assassination Records Collection – NARA.

JFK Library – President John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Mass.

JMARC – Cuba Project/Brigade

JMBUG – John S. Peurifoy – US Ambassador to Guatemala

JMMATE – Invasion of Cuba.

JMMADD – CIA airbase at Retalhuleu, Gatemala

JMTIDE – CIA airbase at Puerto Cabeza, Nicaragua

JMTRAX – CIA airbase in Guatemala

JMWAVE – CIA Cuban Operations HQ, University of Miami (UM), South Campus.

JNEIC – Joint Nuclear Energy Intelligence Committee.

JRC – Joint Reconnaissance Center.

JURE – Anti-Castro Cuban group.

KEFAUVER COMMITTEE – Senate Select Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce.

KGB – Soviet National Intelligence Organization.

KIQs – Key Intelligence Questions, initiated 1974 to produce intelligence on topics of importance to policymakers.

KMFLUSH – Nicaragua

KMPAJAMA – Mexico

KMPLEBE – Peru

KUSODA – Interrogator

KU – CIA Section

KUBARK – CIA HQ

KUCAGE – CIA Overseas paramilitlary/propaganda

KUCLUB – CIA Office of Communications

KUDESK – CIA Counter-intelligence

KUDOVE – CIA Director office

KUFIRE – CIA Intelligence

KUGOWN – CIA Propaganda

KUHOOK – CIA Negotiations/Logistics

KUMOTHER – James Jesus Angleton (CIA CI)

KUSODA – CIA Interrogators

KYP – Greek Intelligence Service.

LANCER – JFK

LANL – Los Alamos National Labs.

LBJ Library – President Lyndon Baynes Johnson Library.

LCFLUTTER – Polygraph truth test.

LCPANGS – Costa Rica

LI – CIA LI crypts refer to Mexico City Station.

LIBERTY – Station, Collins Radio, Cedar Rapids, Iowa HQ radio communications relay station for AF1/SAC.

LIENVOY – Wiretap/intercept source.

LINCOLN – CIA Basque Operations

LIONIZER – Guatemala refugees in Mexico

LPMEDLEY – Telegraphic Intercept Operations.

LSU – Louisiana State University, New Orleans.

LUCKY – Operation Lucky, invasion of Sicily, ostensibly named after Lucky Luciano.

MAGIC – U.S. Army Signal Corps operation broke Japanese codes before WWII.

MAJIC – Material (Analysis) Joint Integration Committee.

MCLELLAN COMMITTEE – Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field.

MH – Worldwide CIA ps

MHCHAOS – Domestic CIA operation targeting anti-Vietnam War protesters

MI – Military Intelligence (USA).

MI-5- British Counter-Intelligence.

MI-6- British Foreign Intelligence. (aka SMOTH)

MI-8 – British Crytopgrphy.

MK – CIA Technical Services Division (TSD)

MKDELTA – Stockpiling of chemical/bio warfare agents (Later MKNAOMI)

MKNAOMI – The first CIA operation associated with the use of biological weapons.

MKOFTEN – Testing effects of chemical/bio agents

MKSEARCH – Post 1964 mind control programs.

MKULTRA – CIA mind control and programmed assassination project.

MONGOOSE – 1961-62, aimed at toppling Castro government. (Lansdale-Harvey)

MRBM – Medium Range Ballistic Missile.

NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

NAIC – National Air Intelligence Agency. (FTD).

NARA – National Archives and Records Administration. “The Past is Prologue.”

NAMREL – National Movement for Free Elections – Philippines.

NAOC – National Airborne Operations Center.

NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

NBC- National Broadcasting Company.

NBR – “Not Believed Relevant” – Excuse of the ARRB for not including in JFK Act records (ie. Kefauvher Committee).

NECPA – National Emergency Command Post Aircraft (Silver Dollar)

NFIP – National Foreign Intelligence Program.

NIA – National Intelligence Agency, comprised of the Secretaries of State, War, Navy, and President.

NIB – National Intelligence Bulletin.

NID – National Intelligence Daily.

NIE – National Intelligence Estimate, predictive judgment on capabilities, vulnerabilities, and possible courses of action, representing a composite view.

NIH – National Institute of Health.

NINDB – National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness.

NISC – Navil Intelligence Support Center.

NKVD – Predecessor to the KGB.

NORTH POLE – British MI6 operation in Holland during WWII.

NOFORN – No foreign distribution of classified document.

NPIC – National Photographic Interpretation Center, est. 1961 under DCI to analyze overhead reconnaissance photos

NPR – National Public Radio.

NSA – National Security Agency.

NSAM – National Security Action Memorandum.

NSASAB – National Security Agency Scientific Advisory Board.

NSC – National Security Council, the senior decision making body in the Executive Branch. Established in 1947.

OAK – Vietnam assassination program

OCB – Operations Coordinating Board,1953 to replace the PSD as a senior review body for covert operations.

OCI – Office of Current Intelligence, component of the DDI.

OCTOBER SURPRISE – Republican efforts to thwart freeing of American hostages in Iran until after 1980 election.

OD – Other Department

ODACID – State Department

ODEARL – Department of Defense

ODENVY – FBI

ODOATH – US Navy ONI

ODUNIT – USAF

OKYOKE – US Government

ODE – Office of Development and Engineering (CIA).

ODENVY – CIA’s old crypt for FBI.

OER – Office of Economic Research, DDI, established in 1967.

OIP – Office of Information and Privacy, DOJ.

OHARE, John Thomas – Colonel Bishop.

OMB – Office of Management and Budget.

ONE – Office of National Estimates, organized in 1950, Dissolved in 1970.

ONI – Office of Naval Intelligence.

OO – Office of Operations, DDI, collects domestic overt intelligence -1965.

OPC – Office of Policy Coordination, a component of CIA but reporting to Depts. Of State and Defense, established in 1948 with responsibility for the conduct of covert operations. Merged with OSO in 1952 to form the DDP.

OPEC – Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

ORD – Office of Research and Development (CIA).

OSD – Office of Secretary of Defense.

OSI – Office of Scientific Intelligence, 1949. Became component of DDI in 1952; transferred to the DDS&T in 1963.

OSIO – Office of SIGNET Operations (CIA).

OSO – Office of Special Operations, of CIG and CIA, 1946, responsible for espionage and counter-espionage. Merged with OPC in 1952 to form DOP.

OSO – Office of Special Operations, DOD.

OSS – Office of Strategic Services, U.S. intelligence agency from 1942-1945.

OTA – Office of Technology Assessment.

OTS- Office of Technical Services (CIA).

OVERLORD – Normandy Invasion. D-Day.

PANCHO – Carlos Castillo Armas – President of Guatemala

PB/PRIME – United States

PAPER – Operation Paper – Korea – CIA-OPC- 1949-1950.

PAPERCLIP – CIA Recruiting of Nazi scientist after WWII.

PB – President Board

PBCFIA – President’s Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities, advisory board 1956 - PFIAB in 1961.

PBFORTUNE – CIA Guatemala project

PBHISTORY – CIA Guatemala documents project

PBPRIME – United States of America.

PBRUMEN - Cuba

PBSUCCESS – CIA Guatemala Coup Project 1954

PCG – Planning and Coordinating Group, NSC.

PDD – Presidential Decision Directive.

PFIAB – President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

PIKE COMMITTEE – The Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Rep. (HIC)

PHEONIX – Operation Phoenix – Vietnam assassination program.

PLO – Palestine Liberation Organization.

PLUTO – Operation Pluto – Eisenhower CIA plan to remove Castro from power; 3/60, headed by Jacob Esterline.

PNIO – Priority National Intelligence Objectives.

POW – Prisoner of War.

PSB – Psychological Strategy Board, established 1951 under NSC, to direct psych warfare programs - OCB 1953.

QKFLOWAGE – US Information Agency

R&D – Research and Development.

RANCH HAND – Agent Orange delivery operations in Southeast Asia.

RAPHAEL – Plan to kill Castro.

RDT&E – Research, Development, Test & Evaluation.

RED SOX – RED CAP – 1950s, East Europe operations.

ROCKCOM – Rockefeller Commission – The President’s Commission on Central Intelligence Agency Activities n the US.

ROW – Rest of World

RUFUS – Carlos Castillo Armas

RYBAT – CIA crypt for secret, extremely sensitive source.

SAFSS – Secretary of the Air Force Space Systems.

SALT – Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

SAM – Surface to Air Missile.

SAMOS – Satellite And Mission Observation System – 1st recon satellite, 1961.

SAS – Special Activities Sector under SAFSS: Project Aquarius.

SCAs – Service Cryptologic Agencies.

SCIII – Special NSC unit dealing with “Alien” matters.

SARANAC – CIA training base in Nicaragua

SCRANTON – CIA training base for Nicaragua

SD – Iran

SDECE – French Intelligence Agency.

SEC – Securities and Exchange Commission. SGUAT – Guatemala CIA Station

SG – Special Group

SGA – Special Group Augumented (w/RFK)

SHNS – Scripps-Howard News Service.

SHERWOOD – CIA radio broadcasts in Nicaragua.

SIC – Senate Intelligence Committee.

SIC – Scientific Intelligence Committee.

SIGNT – Signals Intelligence - interception, processing analysis and dissemination of information derived from foreign electrical communications and other signals.

SILVER DOLLAR – National Emergency Airborne Operations Center communications code.

SKILLET – Whiting Willauer – US Ambassador to Guatemala

SKINNER – Guatemala support group

SLINC – Florida CIA HQ for PBSUCCESS

SLOMAN – Tony Sforza.

SM – United Kingdom (UK)

SMOTH – British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6_

SNIE – Special National Intelligence Estimate (rush job).

SOD – Special Operations Division, Fort Detrick, Maryland.

SPG – Special Procedures Group, SOS, est. 1947, responsible for the conduct of covert psychological operations.

SS – Secret Service.

SSA – Social Security Administration.

SSCI – Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

STANDEL – Jacobo Arbenez - President of Guatemala

SUCCESS – Operation Success – Guatemala Coup, 1954.

SWNCC – State, War, Navy, Coordinating Committee, est. 1944, predecessor of NSC.

SYNCARP – Guatemala coup Junta.

TAMALI SQUAD – Tampa Cuban FBI unit.

TEAPOT DOME – Scandal involving Navy oil reserves during Warren G. Harding administration

TELINT – Telemetry Intelligence.

TET – Offensive. Viet Cong military operation.

TICK TALKS – Operation by Miami PD to uncover Cuban drug traffic.

TINKER – CIA UFO files started in 1952 as T52.

TISFIS – Tends to Identify Sensitive Foreign Intelligence Source.

TOA- Technical Services Division, CIA.

TOP HAT – CIA LSD experimental program.

TOP HOODLUM – FBI’s belated post Appalachian anti-mob program.

TPAJAX – Joint US/UK coup in Iran.

TRADEWINDS – Operation. 12 year IRS investigation of Bahamian off-shore investors.

TRAX, Camp TRAX – Cuban training base for Bay of Pigs in Guatemala.

TSD – Technical Services Division, DOD.

TSS – Technical Services Staff

TU – South Vietnam.

TUBE ALLOYS – British code for nuke bomb development.

TUMBLEWEEDS – CIA/KGB double agent, recruited in Europe, associated with Kostikov in MC.

TWA – Trans World Airlines.

U2 – Photo recon plane.

UFC – United Fruit Company.

UM – University of Miami (JMWAVE).

UN – United Nations.

UNIFRUIT – United Fruit Company

UNSUB – Unknown Subject.

UPI – United Press International.

USA – United States of America (government).

USAINA – U.S. Army Intelligence Agency.

USAIC – United States Army Intelligence Center & School – Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

USAMRIID – U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

USAFSS – US Air Force Security Service.

USCIB – U.S. Communications Intelligence Board, est. 1946, SOD.

USIB – U.S. Intelligence Board, est. 1958.

USIA – United States Information Agency.

USMC – United States Marine Corps.

USPS – United States Postal Service.

USSR – Union of Soviet Socialists Republics.

VENONA – Coded Russian communication intercepts, used to convict Alger Hiss.

VULTURE – Operation for U.S. airforce to support French at battle of Dien Bien Phu.

WACL – World Anti-Communist League.

WALDORF – Maryland AT&T/USAF wideband radio communications system.

WASHTUB – CIA op to plant Soviet arms in Nicaragua.

WC – Warren Commission.

WHCA – White House Communications Agency.

WHO – World Health Organization.

WMD – Weapons of Mass Destruction.

WSAG – Washington Special Action Group.

WSBURNT – Guatemala

WSHOOFS – Honduras

ZAMKA – David Morales

ZAPATA – Operation Zapata – CIA Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.

Zipper – CIA re: German Federal Intelligence Service – Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, aka the Gehlen Org.

Zipper Operation – Purported CIA JFK assassination op (See: Gregory Douglas)

ZR – Intelligence intercept program.

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Ok Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am well above 1,000 codenames and cryptonyms, along with a lengthy list of CIA agents, chiefs and informants.

I am extending my search to include pseudonyms used by prominent CIA officers and agents.

If anybody has anything to contribute I would be most thankful. I know James Richards has a good amount of material in this area, perhaps he could help me out a bit.

I will post a provisional list at the end of the monthm by that time I will have deciphered as many cryptonyms as I can and will be seeking the help of other researchers. My intention is to post the list as a spreadsheet, so that it can hold a lot of information and so members can save the list and ad to it any additional information that they come across.

All the best,

John

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Peter,

Yes, I will include everything that I deem useful, I already have PAPERCLIP and related tags in there. I will also be including some pre and post 9/11 operation codenames.

John

SEE

104-10237-10073

Date: 06-Apr-1960

Title: BASED DECISION ESTABLISH AMCLATTER-1 AS FRANK BENDER MIAMI REP EFFECTED ORAL AGREEMENT HE BE PAID US $300 PER MONTH EFFECTIVE 4 APRIL 1960 FOR HIS FULL TIME SERVICE

To: DIRECTOR

From: MIAMI

Subjects: AMCLATTER-1

Comments: JFK64-2:F13 1998.05.05.09:30:31:450124: GREEN BAND

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Peter,

Yes, I will include everything that I deem useful, I already have PAPERCLIP and related tags in there. I will also be including some pre and post 9/11 operation codenames.

John

SEE

104-10237-10073

Date: 06-Apr-1960

Title: BASED DECISION ESTABLISH AMCLATTER-1 AS FRANK BENDER MIAMI REP EFFECTED ORAL AGREEMENT HE BE PAID US $300 PER MONTH EFFECTIVE 4 APRIL 1960 FOR HIS FULL TIME SERVICE

To: DIRECTOR

From: MIAMI

Subjects: AMCLATTER-1

Comments: JFK64-2:F13 1998.05.05.09:30:31:450124: GREEN BAND

There has been a significant update to the Cryptonyms section at mary ferrell.

See

http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/CIA_Cryptonyms

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The following is self-explanatory......

104-10079-10412 LIST OF NAMES

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=1

141 Names

1. AASE, Jean aka Jean West 201-063522

2. ALPIZAR-Perez, Evelio 201-264334

3. ALVARADO-Ugarde, Gilberto 201-740221*

4. ALVAREZ-Fernando Santiago C-88474

5. AMRON, Irving 201-759831*

6. ARACHA-Smith, Sergio 201-835474*

7. ARTIME, Manuel 201-267437

8. AZCUE, Eusebio 201-334089

9. BALBUENA, Luis 201-291145*

10. BAKER, Barney Loose Documents

11. BANNISTER, W. Guy Loose Documents

12. BARTES, Frank 201-289885

13. BARTONE, Dominic 201-269887*

14. BATISTA-Falla, Laureano C-80727

15. BENTON, Sam Loose Documents*

16. BLOCK, Mollie 201-761429*

17. BLOCK, Morris 201-194231*

18. BOSCH,-Avila, Orlando C-97563

19. BROWDER, Edward 201-59919*

20. BROWN, Mrs G. Stanley Loose Documents

21. BUTLER, Ed Loose Documents

22. CARSWELL, Dan Loose Documents

23. CELLINI, Dino 201-885706*

24. CHAYES, Abram Loose Documents

25. CHERNE, Leo 201-76622

26. CITRYNELL, Harold 201-275418*

27. CONEIN, Lucien Various files

28. CONTE-Aguero, Luis C-278130

CRISMAN, F. Lee Loose Documents

29. CROZIER, Ross C-25507

30. CUESTA-Valle, Antonio C-90118

31. DAVIS, Bruce 201-289235*

32. DAVIS, Richard File

33. DAVIS, Thomas E. 201-113377

34. de-Torres, Bernardo 201-294213*

35. de-Varona, Manuel 201-196435*

36. DIAZ-Lenz, Pedro 201-259120*

37. DIOSADO, Cesario 201-326241*

38. DUBINSKY, Shirley 201-761249*

39. DUQUE, Evelio C-93143

40. DURAN, Horatio Loose Documents

41. DURAN, Silvia 201-740720*

42. DUTKANIEZ, Joseph 201-289236*

43. ESPINOSA-Hernandez, Victor 201-285147*

44. FERRIE, David 201-835476*

45. FRANK, Susan Heligman 201-191098*

46. FREERS, Edward 201-175339*

47. GARRISON, James 201-834821*

48. GODOY y Solis, Joaquin C-94894

49. GOLD, Robert 201-840021*

50. GOLDBERG, Abraham Loose Documents

51. GOLDSTEIN, Frank Richard Loose Documents

52. GOLUB, Gregory Yevgenyvich 201-150156*

53 GEENDLINGER, Martin 201-734499*

54. GREENSPUN, Herman Milton 201-76199

55. GUITART, Augustin C-727418

56. HALL, Loran Eugene 201-258411*

57. HALPERIN, Maurice 201-128561*

58. HARGRAVES, Roy Emory Loose Documents

59. HATHOCK, Richard

60. HEMMING-Gerald Patrick 201-309125*

61. HERNANDEZ-Sanchez, Carlos 201-278755*

62. HOWARD, Lawrence

63. HUNT, E. Howard Loose Documents*

64. ISAACS, Harold 201-18446

65. JOHNSON, William C-37809

66. JONES, Louis Henry 201-325363

67. JONES, Paul Roland Loose Documents

68. KANTOR, Marvin Loose Documents

69. KARAPITNITSKY, Waldemar 201-114188

70. KIMBLE, Jules Rocco Loose Documents

71. KOCH, Gene John C-94040

72. KORENGOLD, Robert J. Loose Documents

73. KOSTIKOV, Valeriy, V. 201-305052*

74. KRAMER, Monica Loose Documents

75. KUTNER, Louis Loose Documents

76. LA BORDE, Lawrence 201-294688*

77. LORENZ, Marita Loose Documents

78. LUCE, Claire Booth C-71976

79. LYNCH, Grayson Loose Documents

80. MARTIN, William H. 201-282338*

81. MARTINKUS, Anthony 201-809022*

82. MARTINO, John Loose Documents

83. MASFERRER, Rolando 201-42669

84. MEROLA, Joseph 201-257804*

85. MEYER, Karl H. 201-85707*

86. MOORE, Robert Loose Documents

87. MORGAN, Edward P. 201-176566*

88. MORGAN, Capt. Wm 201-251145

89. MOSBY, Aline 201-252591

90. MOSS, Edward K. 201-795803*

91. MURRETT, Marilyn 201-761577*

92. McCARTHY, Justin Loose Documents

93. McKEOWN, Robert R. Loose Documents

94. McLANEY, Michael Loose Documents

95. McLENDON, Gordon 201-79764

96. McMILLAN, Priscilla 201-102798*

97. McVICKAR, John A. 201-33608

98. NOSENSKO, Yuri I. Loose documents*

99. NUNEZ, Potuondo 201-45667*

100. OBYEDKOV, Ivan 201-779495

101. OSWALD, Lee Harvey 201-289248

102. OSWALD, Marina 201-743808*

103. PANEQUE, Victor C-286382

104. PARKER, James D. 201-287270*

105. PAWLEY, William D. 201-77378*

106. PEDROSO-Amores C-297748

107. PEREZ, Edwardo

108. PEREZ-Alamo, Duney C-33408

109. PHILLIPS, David A, 201-88764*

110. PICO, Reinaldo C-284658

111. PITTMAN, John O. 201-843597*

112. POSEY, Buford W. 201-837442

113. QJWIN 201-236504*

114. RAIKIN, Spas 201-282538

115. RAMIREZ-Ortiz, Antillio 201-224126*

116. RASCO-Bermuda, Jose I. C-274330

117. REY, Manolo 201-239238*

118. REYNOLDS, Robert J. Loose Document

119. RICCIARDELLI, Libero 201-289238

120. RORKE, Alexander 201-280990

121. ROTHMAN, Norman 201-272262*

122. RUBY, Jack 201-742862

123. SALVAT-Roque, Juan C-86065

124. SHAW, Clay 201-813493*

125. SHIRAKOVA, Rima 201-803914*

126. SLABODA, Vladimir 201-287527*

127. SOTO-Vazcue, Antonio 201-294544*

128. SOUETRE, Jean

129. STURGIS, Frank 201-242256*

130. TARASOFF, Ann Personnel File

131. TARASOFF, Boris Personnel File

132. VECIANA, Antonio C-96796

133. WEBSTER, Robert C-101715

134. WERBELL, Mitchell 201-259910*

135. WHITEHOUSE, Eduardo 201-300614*

136. WILSON-HUDSON, John Loose Documents

137. WINSTON, Henry 201-6887*

138. KING, Coretta 201-839855*

139. KING, Martin L. 201-760966*

140. RAY, James Earl 201-832732*

141. SNYDER, Richard E. 201-748009*

Note...From Robert; there is no explanation as to what the asterisk is in reference to; accordingly I reproduced the document as is. C--files are another designation, I am not real familiar with.

The lack of any number, of any kind regarding Hathcock, Howard, Perez and Souetre......sticks out like a sore thumb wrapped in X'mas lights......

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AMDIP-1 is Tony Varona (also AMHAWK-1)

AMJAVA-4 is Rafael Quintero

AMRUG-5 is Victor M. Paneque Diego

AMPALM-26 is Salvador Diaz Verson

AMOT-11 is Benito Quevedo

AMYUM was the MRR

JMARC were the operations in Cuba

AMDENIM-11 is Eddie 'Bayo' Perez

WIROGUE is Christian David

AMCANOE-6 is Juan Herrera Valladeres

AMDENIM-14 is Tony Cuesta

QDCHAR is Marcos Diaz Lanz

AMTRUNK-2 is Enrique Cayado Rivera

AMCORE-1 is Abel Mestre

WUBRINY-1 is Thomas Devine

AMYUM-19 is Cesar Baro

AMIGGY-1 is Ulises Carbo

AMDENIM-4 is Larry Laborde

AMHINT-26 is John Koch Gene

AMHAWK-2 is Jesus Esposito Lorenzo

AMWAIL-3 is Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo

AMJUTE-1 is Arnesto Napolean Rodriguez y Gonzalez

AMRUNG-1 is Rogelio Gonzalez y Corso

AMGLEN-1 is Jesus A. Valdes Cardenas

AMPANIC-14 is Juan de Jesus Arbelo Zabaleta

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Peter,

I agree, the complete AMDENIM's list would be most curious indeed.

As to the correct way to write the cryptonyms, it seems that there is no real consistency here. Different documents have them constructed differently. A dash between the last letter and the first number is very common though.

James

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Peter,

I agree, the complete AMDENIM's list would be most curious indeed.

As to the correct way to write the cryptonyms, it seems that there is no real consistency here. Different documents have them constructed differently. A dash between the last letter and the first number is very common though.

James

I recently had a conversation with a very good source in the research community, we were discussing, lamenting might be a better word that one of the real drawbacks of the Education Forum is that various members offer their opinions based on material that is extremely one dimensional, to be more specific there is usually no relation to their posts in regards to the files that have been recently declassified, in opposition to this I wanted to mention that the vaunted ZRGRACE material, is not as limited to a single document as someone was recently stating, below is an example of the inaccuracy of that statement.

CI PROJECT - WATCH LIST/ZRGRACE IDENTITIES FOR INCLUSION IN PROJECT COVERAGE - REVISED

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=1

Note there are some morsels of pertinent information in this one, which could shed more light in the area of Oswald's activities if you believe, he was operating in an intelligence capacity of looking for leaks, traceable to the someone in the USSR, who had penetrated the CIA.

ZR/GRACE documents Martin & Mitchell Defectors; this material is from the maryferrell.org documents re Rolando Masferrer, which in itself is something worthy of interest.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35803

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35810

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35798

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35812

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35773

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35815

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35816

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=48442

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=17800

It does not require a rocket scientist to realize, even depending on ones own digging, lol; that ZRGRACE is intimately associated with the defections of Martin and Mitchell NSA, and their contacts with suspected Soviet intelligence operatives, I would also state on a [as far as I know] unrelated basis that in determining the claims of Lamar Waldron, [at one time, I do not keep up with what other researchers are doing, although Pat Speer recently did a very good job regarding the integrity of Warren Commission documents], that there is one cryptonym* that if deciphered would hopefully elucidate more information regarding whether Project AMWORLD was an invasion etched in stone, or merely, as I and others believe was merely a contingency that was tremendously affected by the assassination of JFK, in which conclusions regarding whether it was as Waldron claimed may be difficult to resolve with any definitive conclusions. There are not just a couple of ZRGRACE documents, in fact there a quite a few

* At any rate the crypt is ERACERB-1, if one discovers his identity, the AMWORLD operation becomes a little less mysterious, but that is a singular opinion, and I encourage other members of the Forum to do their own digging.

AMWORLD--SHOWDOWN MEETING BETWEEN AMBIDDY-1 [Manuel Artime Buesa] AND ERACERB-1, WEEK OF 29 JULY 1963

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=18130

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Peter,

I agree, the complete AMDENIM's list would be most curious indeed.

As to the correct way to write the cryptonyms, it seems that there is no real consistency here. Different documents have them constructed differently. A dash between the last letter and the first number is very common though.

James

I recently had a conversation with a very good source in the research community, we were discussing, lamenting might be a better word that one of the real drawbacks of the Education Forum is that various members offer their opinions based on material that is extremely one dimensional, to be more specific there is usually no relation to their posts in regards to the files that have been recently declassified, in opposition to this I wanted to mention that the vaunted ZRGRACE material, is not as limited to a single document as someone was recently stating, below is an example of the inaccuracy of that statement.

CI PROJECT - WATCH LIST/ZRGRACE IDENTITIES FOR INCLUSION IN PROJECT COVERAGE - REVISED

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=1

Note there are some morsels of pertinent information in this one, which could shed more light in the area of Oswald's activities if you believe, he was operating in an intelligence capacity of looking for leaks, traceable to the someone in the USSR, who had penetrated the CIA.

ZR/GRACE documents Martin & Mitchell Defectors; this material is from the maryferrell.org documents re Rolando Masferrer, which in itself is something worthy of interest.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35803

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35810

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35798

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35812

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35773

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35815

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35816

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=48442

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=17800

It does not require a rocket scientist to realize, even depending on ones own digging, lol; that ZRGRACE is intimately associated with the defections of Martin and Mitchell NSA, and their contacts with suspected Soviet intelligence operatives, I would also state on a [as far as I know] unrelated basis that in determining the claims of Lamar Waldron, [at one time, I do not keep up with what other researchers are doing, although Pat Speer recently did a very good job regarding the integrity of Warren Commission documents], that there is one cryptonym* that if deciphered would hopefully elucidate more information regarding whether Project AMWORLD was an invasion etched in stone, or merely, as I and others believe was merely a contingency that was tremendously affected by the assassination of JFK, in which conclusions regarding whether it was as Waldron claimed may be difficult to resolve with any definitive conclusions. There are not just a couple of ZRGRACE documents, in fact there a quite a few

* At any rate the crypt is ERACERB-1, if one discovers his identity, the AMWORLD operation becomes a little less mysterious, but that is a singular opinion, and I encourage other members of the Forum to do their own digging.

AMWORLD--SHOWDOWN MEETING BETWEEN AMBIDDY-1 [Manuel Artime Buesa] AND ERACERB-1, WEEK OF 29 JULY 1963

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=18130

Hey Robert,

That certainly is an interesting document. I immediately thought that Artime was in there, given the Nicaraguan connection, so my guess is that, if I could bet on it, ERACERB-1 is Somoza or one of his kids.

Also, Rex, as you know, has been filling in the Cryptomn blanks as best he can, and John Geherity has started a file on them.

http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/...yptonym_Project

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Peter,

I agree, the complete AMDENIM's list would be most curious indeed.

As to the correct way to write the cryptonyms, it seems that there is no real consistency here. Different documents have them constructed differently. A dash between the last letter and the first number is very common though.

James

I recently had a conversation with a very good source in the research community, we were discussing, lamenting might be a better word that one of the real drawbacks of the Education Forum is that various members offer their opinions based on material that is extremely one dimensional, to be more specific there is usually no relation to their posts in regards to the files that have been recently declassified, in opposition to this I wanted to mention that the vaunted ZRGRACE material, is not as limited to a single document as someone was recently stating, below is an example of the inaccuracy of that statement.

CI PROJECT - WATCH LIST/ZRGRACE IDENTITIES FOR INCLUSION IN PROJECT COVERAGE - REVISED

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/...amp;relPageId=1

Note there are some morsels of pertinent information in this one, which could shed more light in the area of Oswald's activities if you believe, he was operating in an intelligence capacity of looking for leaks, traceable to the someone in the USSR, who had penetrated the CIA.

ZR/GRACE documents Martin & Mitchell Defectors; this material is from the maryferrell.org documents re Rolando Masferrer, which in itself is something worthy of interest.

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35803

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35810

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35798

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35812

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35773

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35815

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=35816

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=48442

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=17800

It does not require a rocket scientist to realize, even depending on ones own digging, lol; that ZRGRACE is intimately associated with the defections of Martin and Mitchell NSA, and their contacts with suspected Soviet intelligence operatives, I would also state on a [as far as I know] unrelated basis that in determining the claims of Lamar Waldron, [at one time, I do not keep up with what other researchers are doing, although Pat Speer recently did a very good job regarding the integrity of Warren Commission documents], that there is one cryptonym* that if deciphered would hopefully elucidate more information regarding whether Project AMWORLD was an invasion etched in stone, or merely, as I and others believe was merely a contingency that was tremendously affected by the assassination of JFK, in which conclusions regarding whether it was as Waldron claimed may be difficult to resolve with any definitive conclusions. There are not just a couple of ZRGRACE documents, in fact there a quite a few

* At any rate the crypt is ERACERB-1, if one discovers his identity, the AMWORLD operation becomes a little less mysterious, but that is a singular opinion, and I encourage other members of the Forum to do their own digging.

AMWORLD--SHOWDOWN MEETING BETWEEN AMBIDDY-1 [Manuel Artime Buesa] AND ERACERB-1, WEEK OF 29 JULY 1963

http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/....do?docId=18130

Hey Robert,

That certainly is an interesting document. I immediately thought that Artime was in there, given the Nicaraguan connection, so my guess is that, if I could bet on it, ERACERB-1 is Somoza or one of his kids.

Also, Rex, as you know, has been filling in the Cryptomn blanks as best he can, and John Geherity has started a file on them.

http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/...yptonym_Project

Sounds good, John is a good researcher.

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