A set of cryptonyms seen in declassified CIA documents. 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 (ie - AEROPLANE).
Partial List of Digraphs and Probable Definitions
- AE - Soviet Union
- BE - Poland
- DI - Czechoslovakia
- DM - Yugoslavia
- DN - South Korea
- KU - part of CIA
- OD - Other Department
- SM - United Kingdom
- ZR - Normally prefixes the cryptonym for an intelligence intercept program
Unidentified Digraphs
AM, AV, CA, DT, EC, ES, FJ, HB, HO, HT, JM, JU, KM, LC, LI, PB, SE, SC, WS
Partial List of CIA Cryptonyms and Probable Definitions
- AELADLE - Anatoliy Golitsyn, a Soviet Defector
- BGGYPSY - Russia; Russian
- DTFROGS - El Salvador
- ESMERALDITE - labor informant affiliated with AFL-sponsored labor movement
- ESSENCE - Guatemalan anti-Communist leader
- FJHOPEFUL - military base
- MKULTRA
- HTAUTOMAT - U-2 Spy Plane Project
- HTKEEPER - Mexico City
- HTLINGUAL - mail interception operation
- HTPLUME - Panama
- JMBLUG - John S. Peurifoy, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala
- KUBARK - the CIA
- KUCAGE - CIA Overseas Paramilitary / Propaganda Operations
- KUCLUB - Office of Communications
- KUDOVE - Office of the director
- KUFIRE - Intelligence
- KMFLUSH - Nicaragua
- KMPAJAMA - Mexico
- KMPLEBE - Peru
- KUGOWN - Propaganda
- KUSODA - CIA Interrogators
- LCFLUTTER - Polygraph, sometimes supplanted by truth drugs: sodium amytal (anobarbital), sodium pentothal (thiopental), and seconal (seconbarbital) to induce regression in the subject.
- LCPANGS - Costa Rica
- LIONIZER - Guatemalan refugee group in Mexico
- ODACID - State Department/ US Embassy
- ODEARL - Dept of Defense
- ODENVY - FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
- ODOATH - US Navy
- ODUNIT - US Air Force
- ODYOKE - US Government
- PBFORTUNE - CIA project to supply anti-Arbenz forces 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.
- PBPRIME - the United States of America
- PBSUCCESS - (Also PBS) Central Intelligence Agency covert operation to overthrow Arbenz government in Guatemala.
- SARANAC - Training site in Nicaragua
- SCRANTON - Training base for radio operators near Nicaragua.
- 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.
- SMOTH - MI-6 (British Secret Service)
- STANDEL - Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala
- SYNCARP - The "Junta," Castillo Armas' political organization headed by Cordova Cerna.
- QKFLOWAGE - United States Information Agency
- UNIFRUIT - United Fruit Company
- WASHTUB - Operation to plant Soviet arms in Nicaragua
- WSBURNT - Guatemala
- WSHOOFS - Honduras
Undefined Codewords
AEBARMAN, AEFOX, AEFOXTROT, AEROPLANE, AMLASH, AVBLIMP, AVBRANDY, AVBUSY, CABOUNCE, CLOWER, ECJOB, ESCOBILLA, ESGAIN, ESODIC, ESQUIRE, FJDEFLECT, HBDRILL, HOPEFUL, JUBATE, JUBILIST, KMFLUSH, KUDESK, KUHOOK, KUJUMP, KUPALM, KUTUBE, LCPANES, LICOZY, LITEMPO, ODIBEX, PBCABOOSE, RYBAT, SECANT, SEQUIN, SCRANGER, SUMAC, ZPSEMANTIC, ZPSECANT and ZRBRIEF, ZRMETAL
(cf: Cullather and PBSUCCESS document collection at http://www.foia.ucia.gov/popdoc1/guatemala.htm; 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)
