CIA cryptonym

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CIA cryptonyms are code words seen in declassified documents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. There has been much speculation as to the meaning of these.

Each CIA cryptonym in these documents contains a two character prefix called a digraph, which designates a geographical or functional area. The rest is either an arbitrary dictionary word, or occasionally the digraph and the cryptonym combine to form a dictionary word (e.g.: AEROPLANE). Certain digraphs were changed at times, for example the digraph for the Soviet Union changed at least twice.

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Partial list of digraphs and probable definitions

  • AE: Soviet Union
  • AM: Cuba
  • BE: Poland
  • CK: Soviet Union
  • DI: Czechoslovakia
  • DM: Yugoslavia
  • DN: South Korea
  • ES: Guatemala
  • GT: Soviet Union
  • IA: Angola
  • KU: Part of CIA
  • MH: Worldwide operation
  • MK: Projects sponsored by the CIA's Technical Services Division
  • OD: Other Department
  • PB: President Board
  • SD: Iran
  • SM: United Kingdom
  • TU: South Vietnam
  • ZR: Normally prefixes the cryptonym for an intelligence intercept program. Seems to go with Staff D ops, Staff D being the group that worked directly with the NSA. Staff D was where ZR/RIFLE, a Castro assassination plot, was buried.
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Unidentified digraphs

AV, CA, DT, EC, ER, FJ, HB, HO, HT, JM, JU, KM, LC, LI, QK, SE, SC, WS, ZI

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Partial list of CIA cryptonyms and probable definitions

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Operations and Projects

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Organizations

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Persons

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Places

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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.
  • RYBAT: Indicates that the information is very sensitive
  • SLINC: Telegram indicator for PBSUCCESS Headquarters in Florida.
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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, QKENCHANT, SECANT, SEQUIN, SGRANGER, SUMAC, ZPSEMANTIC, ZPSECANT, ZRBEACH, ZRBRIEF, and ZRMETAL

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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
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