A.J. Hidell

[Ashton Gray]

"A.J. Hidell" is an anagram for "Jade Hill."

The Jade Hill Pagoda is a landmark on a small island in Hoan Kiem Lake, in the heart of Hanoi, connected to the shore by a red arched bridge.

Hoan Kiem Lake is more than the geographical heart of Hanoi: it long has been the spiritual heart of Hanoi, called simply bo ho—"the shore of the lake"—by the locals.

Considering what was coming, I'm sure that Oswald's CIA handlers had a good snicker up their sleeves when they had him use the name.

(Let's see: LBJ probably did it—do I have that right, Everett?)

Ashton Gray

[Guest Stephen Turner]

"A.J. Hidell" is an anagram for "Jade Hill."

The Jade Hill Pagoda is a landmark on a small island in Hoan Kiem Lake, in the heart of Hanoi, connected to the shore by a red arched bridge.

Hoan Kiem Lake is more than the geographical heart of Hanoi: it long has been the spiritual heart of Hanoi, called simply bo ho—"the shore of the lake"—by the locals.

Considering what was coming, I'm sure that Oswald's CIA handlers had a good snicker up their sleeves when they had him use the name.

(Let's see: LBJ probably did it—do I have that right, Everett?)

Ashton Gray

Another good belly laugh must have been had while "Hidell" was buying the money orders to purchase the rifle. They wre bought very early in the morning, Dallas post offices opened at 8am, and not before, yet Oswalds time sheet shows he clocked in before eightam on that day. he must have been doing some of this overtime we keep hearing about to account for discrepencies in his cash flow.......Steve.

[Jack White]

"A.J. Hidell" is an anagram for "Jade Hill."

The Jade Hill Pagoda is a landmark on a small island in Hoan Kiem Lake, in the heart of Hanoi, connected to the shore by a red arched bridge.

Hoan Kiem Lake is more than the geographical heart of Hanoi: it long has been the spiritual heart of Hanoi, called simply bo ho—"the shore of the lake"—by the locals.

Considering what was coming, I'm sure that Oswald's CIA handlers had a good snicker up their sleeves when they had him use the name.

(Let's see: LBJ probably did it—do I have that right, Everett?)

Ashton Gray

Everyone should read Philip Agee's INSIDE THE COMPANY...CIA DIARY.

On page 137 he describes how the CIA invents PSEUDONYMS for operatives. The names are

highly UNIQUE, so that it is unlikely that few other persons in the world will have an identical

name. After assignment of the name, the operative will thereafter use that name in all

operations and reports.

The pseudonym assigned to Agee was JEREMY S. HODAPP.

Do you see a pattern?

J E R E M Y S. H O D A P P

A L E K J. H I D E L L

UNUSUAL FIRST NAME....MIDDLE INITIAL...CONSONANT-VOWEL-CONSONANT-VOWEL-DOUBLE CONSONANT LAST NAME

Computer generated?

Agee's book is a must for anyone wanting to understand agency operations and cryptonyms.

He unlocks many code names you may have read about.

Jack

[Greg Parker]

"A.J. Hidell" is an anagram for "Jade Hill."

The Jade Hill Pagoda is a landmark on a small island in Hoan Kiem Lake, in the heart of Hanoi, connected to the shore by a red arched bridge.

Hoan Kiem Lake is more than the geographical heart of Hanoi: it long has been the spiritual heart of Hanoi, called simply bo ho—"the shore of the lake"—by the locals.

Considering what was coming, I'm sure that Oswald's CIA handlers had a good snicker up their sleeves when they had him use the name.

(Let's see: LBJ probably did it—do I have that right, Everett?)

Ashton Gray

Everyone should read Philip Agee's INSIDE THE COMPANY...CIA DIARY.

On page 137 he describes how the CIA invents PSEUDONYMS for operatives. The names are

highly UNIQUE, so that it is unlikely that few other persons in the world will have an identical

name. After assignment of the name, the operative will thereafter use that name in all

operations and reports.

The pseudonym assigned to Agee was JEREMY S. HODAPP.

Do you see a pattern?

J E R E M Y S. H O D A P P

A L E K J. H I D E L L

UNUSUAL FIRST NAME....MIDDLE INITIAL...CONSONANT-VOWEL-CONSONANT-VOWEL-DOUBLE CONSONANT LAST NAME

So, Jack... how do you explain Phillips' alias, Michael C Choaden?

Computer generated?

Hardly in Phillips case. Yet it does have some things in common... particularly with some of the names associated with Oswald which were actually slight mispellings of German words, in that this one comes from the coloquial Spanish word "Choad", which means "penis". Phillips was a real crack-up.

Agee's book is a must for anyone wanting to understand agency operations and cryptonyms.

He unlocks many code names you may have read about.

So... did he tackle this one?

Jack

[Jack White]

"A.J. Hidell" is an anagram for "Jade Hill."

The Jade Hill Pagoda is a landmark on a small island in Hoan Kiem Lake, in the heart of Hanoi, connected to the shore by a red arched bridge.

Hoan Kiem Lake is more than the geographical heart of Hanoi: it long has been the spiritual heart of Hanoi, called simply bo ho—"the shore of the lake"—by the locals.

Considering what was coming, I'm sure that Oswald's CIA handlers had a good snicker up their sleeves when they had him use the name.

(Let's see: LBJ probably did it—do I have that right, Everett?)

Ashton Gray

Everyone should read Philip Agee's INSIDE THE COMPANY...CIA DIARY.

On page 137 he describes how the CIA invents PSEUDONYMS for operatives. The names are

highly UNIQUE, so that it is unlikely that few other persons in the world will have an identical

name. After assignment of the name, the operative will thereafter use that name in all

operations and reports.

The pseudonym assigned to Agee was JEREMY S. HODAPP.

Do you see a pattern?

J E R E M Y S. H O D A P P

A L E K J. H I D E L L

UNUSUAL FIRST NAME....MIDDLE INITIAL...CONSONANT-VOWEL-CONSONANT-VOWEL-DOUBLE CONSONANT LAST NAME

So, Jack... how do you explain Phillips' alias, Michael C Choaden?

Computer generated?

Hardly in Phillips case. Yet it does have some things in common... particularly with some of the names associated with Oswald which were actually slight mispellings of German words, in that this one comes from the coloquial Spanish word "Choad", which means "penis". Phillips was a real crack-up.

Agee's book is a must for anyone wanting to understand agency operations and cryptonyms.

He unlocks many code names you may have read about.

So... did he tackle this one?

Jack

According to Agee, pseudonyms were ASSIGNED BY THE AGENCY, not

chosen by the agents themselves.

However, David Atlee Phillips and his friend E. Howard Hunt are known

to have privately used the names BISHOP and KNIGHT, a reference

to chess pieces. And in Cuban operations, Hunt used the name EDUARDO.

I never heard reference to Phillips as Michael C Choaden.

Jack

[Greg Parker]

"A.J. Hidell" is an anagram for "Jade Hill."

The Jade Hill Pagoda is a landmark on a small island in Hoan Kiem Lake, in the heart of Hanoi, connected to the shore by a red arched bridge.

Hoan Kiem Lake is more than the geographical heart of Hanoi: it long has been the spiritual heart of Hanoi, called simply bo ho—"the shore of the lake"—by the locals.

Considering what was coming, I'm sure that Oswald's CIA handlers had a good snicker up their sleeves when they had him use the name.

(Let's see: LBJ probably did it—do I have that right, Everett?)

Ashton Gray

Everyone should read Philip Agee's INSIDE THE COMPANY...CIA DIARY.

On page 137 he describes how the CIA invents PSEUDONYMS for operatives. The names are

highly UNIQUE, so that it is unlikely that few other persons in the world will have an identical

name. After assignment of the name, the operative will thereafter use that name in all

operations and reports.

The pseudonym assigned to Agee was JEREMY S. HODAPP.

Do you see a pattern?

J E R E M Y S. H O D A P P

A L E K J. H I D E L L

UNUSUAL FIRST NAME....MIDDLE INITIAL...CONSONANT-VOWEL-CONSONANT-VOWEL-DOUBLE CONSONANT LAST NAME

So, Jack... how do you explain Phillips' alias, Michael C Choaden?

Computer generated?

Hardly in Phillips case. Yet it does have some things in common... particularly with some of the names associated with Oswald which were actually slight mispellings of German words, in that this one comes from the coloquial Spanish word "Choad", which means "penis". Phillips was a real crack-up.

Agee's book is a must for anyone wanting to understand agency operations and cryptonyms.

He unlocks many code names you may have read about.

So... did he tackle this one?

Jack

According to Agee, pseudonyms were ASSIGNED BY THE AGENCY, not

chosen by the agents themselves.

However, David Atlee Phillips and his friend E. Howard Hunt are known

to have privately used the names BISHOP and KNIGHT, a reference

to chess pieces. And in Cuban operations, Hunt used the name EDUARDO.

I never heard reference to Phillips as Michael C Choaden.

Jack

Jack, he used that name in official cables from MC regarding Alverado allegations and other matters - therefore was not being used "privately". It does not meet the criteria Agee set out except for the use of a middle initial and a surname no one else on earth could lay claim to. That last criteria is also true of the name "Drittal" used as a character reference on coupon for purchase of pistol by "Hidell".

[Robert Howard]

This information may be of interest

Partial list of CIA cryptonyms and probable definitions

[edit] Operations and Projects

* APPLE

* ARTICHOKE: Anti-interrogation project. Precusor to MKULTRA.

* AQUATONE: Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane Project

* BIRCH

* BLUEBIRD: mind control program

* CHALICE: Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane Project

* CHATTER

* 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.

* DBACHILLES: 1995 effort to support a military coup in Iraq. [1]

* ECHELON: worldwide signals intelligence and analysis network run by the UKUSA Community.

* FIR

* GUSTO: Project to design a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane

* HTAUTOMAT: Photointerpretation center established for the Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane Project

* HTLINGUAL: Mail interception operation.

* IAFEATURE: Operation to support UNITA and FNLA during the Angolan civil war.

* KEMPSTER: Project to reduce the radar cross section (RCS) of the inlets of the Lockheed A-12 Spy Plane

* LEMON

* LINCOLN: Ongoing operation involving Basque separatist group ETA

* LPMEDLEY: Surveillance of telegraphic information exiting or entering the United States

* MHCHAOS: Surveillance of antiwar activists during the Vietnam War

* MKDELTA: Stockpiling of lethal biological and chemical agents, subsequently became MKNAOMI

* MKNAOMI: Stockpiling of lethal biological and chemical agents, successor to MKDELTA

* MKULTRA: Mind control research. MKULTRA means MK (code for scientific projects) and ULTRA (top classification reference, re: ULTRA code breaking in WWII. Renamed MKSEARCH in 1964

* MKSEARCH: MKULTRA after 1964, mind control research

* MKOFTEN: Testing effects of biological and chemical agents, part of MKSEARCH

* OAK: Operation to assassinate suspected South Vietnamese collaborators during Vietnam war

* OXCART: Lockheed A-12 Spy Plane Project

* PAPERCLIP: US recruiting of German scientists after the Second World War

* PHOENIX: Vietnam covert intelligence/assassination operation.

* PINE

* PBFORTUNE: CIA project to supply forces opposed to Guatemala's President Arbenz with weapons, supplies, and funding; predecessor to PBSUCCESS.

* PBHISTORY: Central Intelligence Agency project to gather and analyze documents from the Arbenz government in Guatemala that would incriminate Arbenz as a Communist.

* PBSUCCESS: (Also PBS) Central Intelligence Agency covert operation to overthrow the Arbenz government in Guatemala.

* RAINBOW: Project to reduce the radar cross section (RCS) of the Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane

* SHERWOOD: CIA radio broadcast program in Nicaragua begun on May 1, 1954.

* TPAJAX: Joint US/UK operation to overthrow Mohammed Mossadeq, Prime Minister of Iran

* TSS: Technical Services Staff

* WASHTUB: Operation to plant Soviet arms in Nicaragua

[edit] Organizations

* KUBARK: CIA Headquarters

* KUCAGE: CIA Overseas Paramilitary / Propaganda Operations

* KUCLUB: Office of Communications

* KUDESK: Counterintelligence department

* KUDOVE: Office of the director

* KUFIRE: Intelligence

* KUGOWN: Propaganda

* KUHOOK: Negotiations/Logistics (unsure)

* KUSODA: CIA Interrogators

* ODACID: State Department / US Embassy

* ODEARL: US Department of Defense

* ODENVY: FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation

* ODOATH: US Navy

* ODUNIT: US Air Force

* ODYOKE: US Government

* QKFLOWAGE: United States Information Agency

* SKIMMER: The "Group" CIA cover organization supporting Castillo Armas.

* SGUAT: CIA Station in Guatemala

* SMOTH: British Secret Intelligence Service (also known as MI6)

* SYNCARP: The "Junta," Castillo Armas' political organization headed by Cordova Cerna.

* UNIFRUIT: United Fruit Company

[edit] Persons

* AEFOXTROT: Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, a Soviet defector

* AELADLE: Anatoliy Golitsyn, a Soviet defector

* AMLASH: Rolando Cubela Secades, a Cuban official involved in plot to kill Fidel Castro in 1963

* AMQUACK: Che Guevara, Argentinian guerrilla leader

* AMTHUG: Fidel Castro, president of Cuba

* GPFLOOR: Lee Harvey Oswald, J.F. Kennedy's assassin

* GPIDEAL: John F. Kennedy, US president

* GRALLSPICE: Pyotr Semonovich Popov, Soviet defector

* JMBLUG: John S. Peurifoy, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala

* KUMOTHER: James Jesus Angleton, head of the CIAs counter intelligence

* PANCHO: Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala, also RUFUS

* RUFUS: Carlos Castillo Armas, President of Guatemala, also PANCHO

* SKILLET: Whiting Willauer, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras.

* STANDEL: Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala

[edit] Places

* BOND: Puerto Barrios, Guatemala

* DTFROGS: El Salvador

* HTKEEPER: Mexico City

* HTPLUME: Panama

* JMMADD: CIA airbase near city of Retalhuleu, Guatemala

* JMTIDE: CIA airbase in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua

* JMTRAX: CIA covert airbase/training camp in Guatemala

* JMWAVE: CIA station in Miami (which operated against Cuba)

* KMFLUSH: Nicaragua

* KMPAJAMA: Mexico

* KMPLEBE: Peru

* LCPANGS: Costa Rica

* LIONIZER: Guatemalan refugee group in Mexico

* PBPRIME: the United States of America

* PBRUMEN: Cuba

* SARANAC: Training site in Nicaragua

* SCRANTON: Training base for radio operators near Nicaragua.

* WSBURNT: Guatemala

* WSHOOFS: Honduras

[edit] Other

* BGGYPSY: Communist

* ESCOBILLA: Guatemalan national

* ESMERALDITE: labor informant affiliated with AFL-sponsored labor movement

* ESSENCE: Guatemalan anti-Communist leader

* FJHOPEFUL: military base

* LCFLUTTER: Polygraph, sometimes supplanted by truth drugs: Sodium Amytal (amobarbital), Sodium Pentothal (thiopental), and Seconal (secobarbital) to induce regression in the subject.

* LIENVOY: Wiretap or Intercept Program

* RYBAT: Indicates that the information is very sensitive

* SLINC: Telegram indicator for PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida.

[edit] Unidentified codewords

AEBARMAN, AEFOX, AEROPLANE, AVBLIMP, AVBRANDY, AVBUSY, CABOUNCE, CLOWER, ECJOB, ESGAIN, ESODIC, ESQUIRE, FJDEFLECT, GOLIATH, HBDRILL, HOPEFUL, JUBATE, JUBILIST, KUHOOK, KUJUMP, KUPALM, KURIOT, KUTUBE, LCPANES, LICOZY, LITEMPO, ODIBEX, PBCABOOSE,

[edit] References

* Cullather and PBSUCCESS document collection

* Leo D. Carl, The International Dictionary of Intelligence, Mavin Books, 1990, p. 107

* Phillip Agee, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Stonehill Publishing, 1975, p. 48

* David Wise, Molehunt, Random House, 1992, p.19

* John Stockwell, In Search of Enemies, 1978

* Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954 - 1974, CIA History Staff, 1992.

See the link

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

[William Kelly]

Here's a list I started years ago and have periodically updated, but not recently.

There's also a good list put out by the Church Committee.

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.

ALPHA 66 – Anti-Castro Cuban commando organization.

AM – CIA crypts concerning Cuba begin with AM.

AMLASH – Rolando Cubela Secades

AMQUACK – Che Guevara

AMTHUG – Crypt for Fidel Castro.

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

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.

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.

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

CIA – Central Intelligence Agency.

CI&CA – Counterintelligence and Investigative Activity.

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

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 – 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.

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.

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 – 1^st 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).

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.

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

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

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.

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, an interdepartmental body established in 1962, to provide regular assessments on Soviet and Chinese future 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.

JMBUG – John S. Peurifoy – US Ambassador to Guatemala

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

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.

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 – Operation MONGOOSE, a program conducted between 1961 and 1962, aimed at discrediting and ultimately toppling the Castro government.

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).

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, established in 1961 under the direction of the DCI to analyze photography derived from overhead reconnaissance.

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.

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

RUFUS – Carlos Castillo Armas -

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

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.

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

Red Sox- Red Cap – Operation Red Sox-Red Cap- 1950s, East Europe.

ROCKCOM – Rockefeller Commission – The President’s Commission on Central Intelligence Agency Activities within the United States.

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 – 1^st 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

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 Airborne Operations Center communications code.

SKILLET – Whiting Willauer – US Ambassador to Guatemala

SKINNER – Guatemala support group

SLINC – Florida CIA HQ for PBSUCCESS

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.

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.

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

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

ZR – Intelligence intercept program.