Index
A–Z index
Every file, with cryptonyms and other names listed under their own letter.
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- 97-shiki obun injiki see Magic and the breaking of Purple
A
- A-12 see Project Oxcart
- Abel v. United States: the Supreme Court and the spy's wastebasket (1960) Document
- Able Archer 83 and the war scare Operation
- Abwehr Agency
- Acoustic Kitty Operation
- Adolf Tolkachev Person
- AEACRE see Operation Redsox
- AERODYNAMIC see Operation Redsox
- The Afghan covert program in May 1980: INR's briefing for Secretary Muskie Document
- The Afghan program begins: the Special Coordination Committee, 26 June 1979 Document
- Afghanistan covert action program see Operation Cyclone
- After the U-2: the President and his advisers (May 1960) Document
- Operation Ajax (TPAJAX) Operation
- Alan Turing Person
- Alger Hiss Person
- Alias George Wood: CIA's case history of Fritz Kolbe (1966) Document
- Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (1975) Document
- Allen Dulles Person
- Allen Dulles's cable on Lumumba: 'an urgent and prime objective' (August 1960) Document
- AM/LASH see The plots against Fidel Castro
- Operation Anadyr Operation
- ANADYR see Operation Anadyr
- Anthony Blunt Person
- Operation Anthropoid Operation
- AQUATONE see The U-2 program and the 1960 shoot-down
- Archangel see Project Oxcart
- Argo see The Canadian Caper
- Autumn Forge 83 (parent exercise series) see Able Archer 83 and the war scare
- Project Azorian (the Glomar Explorer) Operation
B
- B1A see The Double-Cross System
- BARNACLE see Operation Holystone
- The Battle for Iran: the CIA History Staff's account of the 1953 coup (c. 1974) Document
- The Bay of Pigs invasion Operation
- Operation Bernhard Operation
- BGFIEND see Operation Valuable (Albania)
- Black Nationalist-Hate Group program see COINTELPRO
- BLACK SHIELD (operations from Okinawa) see Project Oxcart
- BOLLARD see Operation Holystone
- BONIFACE see Ultra and the breaking of Enigma
- BOURBON see TOPHAT: the Polyakov case
- BRIDE see The Venona project
- The BRUSA agreement on 'Special Intelligence' (1943), with the War Department's covering memo Document
- Brush passes Tradecraft
- Bumpy Road see The Bay of Pigs invasion
C
- The Cambridge Five Operation
- Cambridge Five spy ring see The Cambridge Five
- Cambridge spy ring see The Cambridge Five
- The Canadian Caper Operation
- The capture of Adolf Eichmann Operation
- Catboat see Operation Washtub
- CENTER LANE see The Stargate Project
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Agency
- Operation CHAOS Operation
- Cheka, OGPU and NKVD Agency
- CHICKADEE see IRONBARK: the Penkovsky case
- Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: The NSA and Fourth Amendment Rights (1975) Document
- The Church Committee's report on the NSA: 'National Security Agency Surveillance Affecting Americans' (1976) Document
- The CIA and the Congo crisis, 1960–61 Operation
- The CIA historian's case against the Taylor Committee (1984) Document
- The CIA Inspector General's inspection of MKULTRA (1963) Document
- The CIA Inspector General's report on plots to kill Castro (1967) Document
- The CIA Iran Task Force's account of the Canadian Caper (1980) Document
- CIA Tibetan program see ST CIRCUS: the CIA in Tibet
- The CIA's history of OXCART: 'The U-2's Intended Successor' (1992) Document
- The CIA's history of the Berlin Tunnel (1968) Document
- The CIA's Tibet program reviewed for the Special Group (January 1964) Document
- The CIA's trained-cats memo (1967) Document
- The Cicero affair Operation
- Cipher machines Tradecraft
- Civil disturbance watch list see Project Minaret
- COINTELPRO Operation
- Project Coldfeet Operation
- COLDFEET see Project Coldfeet
- Concealment devices Tradecraft
- Conflict (British name, per Lunn's obituary) see Operation Silver (the Vienna tunnels)
- The congressional Iran-Contra report (1987) Document
- CORONA Operation
- CORONA: the CIA's 1995 documentary history of its first spy satellite Document
- Corpuscle see Operation Washtub
- Counterintelligence Program see COINTELPRO
- CPUSA program see COINTELPRO
- Cuba 1962: Khrushchev's Miscalculated Risk (CIA staff study, 1964) Document
- Operation Cyclone Operation
- Cygnus see Project Oxcart
D
- Dead drops Tradecraft
- DENVER see Operation INFEKTION
- Der Fall Cicero see The Cicero affair
- Operation Diamond Operation
- DISCOVERER see CORONA
- Dmitri Polyakov Person
- Donald Maclean Person
- The Doolittle Report (1954) Document
- Double agents Tradecraft
- The Double-Cross System Operation
- DRUG see The Venona project
- Dulles and Gaevernitz's report on SUNRISE-CROSSWORD: 'The First German Surrender' (1945) Document
- Dulles asks Egypt to spare the Lavon affair prisoners (27 January 1955) Document
- The Duquesne spy ring Operation
- Duško Popov (TRICYCLE) Person
E
- Eli Cohen Person
- Elizabeth Bentley Person
- ENORMOUS see Soviet atomic espionage (Enormoz)
- ENORMOZ see Soviet atomic espionage (Enormoz)
- Erich Mielke Person
- Ethel Rosenberg Person
- Ex parte Quirin (1942): the Supreme Court and the Nazi saboteurs Document
- Executive Action see The plots against Fidel Castro
F
- The "Family Jewels" (1973) Document
- FAREWELL see The Farewell Dossier
- The Farewell Dossier Operation
- FBI file: 'Stay-Behind Special Agent Program in Alaska', the 1950 papers (Part 1, opening pages) Document
- The FBI letter that opened COINTELPRO against black nationalist groups (1967) Document
- The FBI's affidavit against Robert Hanssen (2001) Document
- The FBI's case write-up on the Duquesne spy ring (1985) Document
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Agency
- Felix Dzerzhinsky Person
- FIEND see Operation Valuable (Albania)
- Ford's meeting on the submarine leak (27 May 1975) Document
- Operation Fortitude Operation
- Fortitude North see Operation Fortitude
- Fortitude South see Operation Fortitude
- Francis Gary Powers Person
- Francis Gary Powers before the CIA Board of Inquiry (22 February 1962) Document
- Frank Church Person
- Friedman's report on breaking PURPLE (14 October 1940) Document
- FUBELT see Track II and Chile, 1970
G
- Gardner material see The Venona project
- GC&CS and GCHQ Agency
- Gehlen Organization and BND Agency
- George Blake Person
- Operation Gladio Operation
- Gladio see Operation Gladio
- Operation Gold (the Berlin Tunnel) Operation
- GONDOLA WISH see The Stargate Project
- The Gouzenko affair Operation
- GRAYSUIT see The Hanssen case
- GRILL FLAME see The Stargate Project
- GRU (Soviet military intelligence) Agency
- GTVANQUISH see The Tolkachev case
- The Guillaume affair Operation
- Guillaume-Affäre see The Guillaume affair
- Operation Gunnerside Operation
- Guy Burgess Person
- Günter Guillaume Person
H
- HaEsek HaBish (the Unfortunate Business) see The Lavon affair
- The Hanssen case Operation
- Harry Gold Person
- Harvey's Hole see Operation Gold (the Berlin Tunnel)
- HAVE DOUGHNUT (US evaluation) see Operation Diamond
- Hearings on American Aspects of the Richard Sorge Spy Case (HUAC, 1951) Document
- HERO see IRONBARK: the Penkovsky case
- Heydrich assassination see Operation Anthropoid
- Hollow Coin case see The Hollow Nickel case
- The Hollow Nickel case Operation
- Operation Holystone Operation
- HOLYSTONE see Operation Holystone
- Hoover tells the White House about Gouzenko (September 1945) Document
- Hughes Glomar Explorer see Project Azorian (the Glomar Explorer)
- HYDRO see Ultra and the breaking of Enigma
I
- ICEX see The Phoenix Program
- Igor Gouzenko Person
- Illegals and legends Tradecraft
- Operation INFEKTION Operation
- The Inspector General's survey of the Cuban operation (1961) Document
- Intelligence in the Cuban Missile Crisis Operation
- Iran 1953: Kermit Roosevelt's debriefing at CIA headquarters Document
- Iran/contra see The Iran–Contra affair
- The Iran–Contra affair Operation
- IRONBARK: the Penkovsky case Operation
- Isser Harel Person
- Operation Ivy Bells Operation
- IVY BELLS see Operation Ivy Bells
J
- J. Edgar Hoover Person
- JAA see Magic and the breaking of Purple
- James Jesus Angleton Person
- JCS 1969/321 see Operation Northwoods
- Operation Jedburgh Operation
- Jedburghs see Operation Jedburgh
- Jeds see Operation Jedburgh
- JENNIFER (security compartment) see Project Azorian (the Glomar Explorer)
- JMATE see The Bay of Pigs invasion
- JMWAVE see Operation Mongoose
- John Anthony Walker Person
- John Cairncross Person
- Juan Pujol García (GARBO) Person
- Julius Rosenberg Person
- Justification for US Military Intervention in Cuba see Operation Northwoods
K
- Keeping the Nation's Secrets: the Stilwell Commission report (1985) Document
- Kellock–Taschereau Commission see The Gouzenko affair
- KGB Agency
- KH-1 to KH-4B (KEYHOLE) see CORONA
- Kim Philby Person
- Kissinger to Nixon on Brandt's fall: the blackmail reports (May 1974) Document
- Klaus Fuchs Person
- Konon Molody (Gordon Lonsdale) Person
- Kurery (Couriers) see Operation Monastery
L
- L'affaire Farewell see The Farewell Dossier
- Lansdale's "The Cuba Project" (1962) Document
- Lansdale's first Cuba Project program review (18 January 1962) Document
- The Lavon affair Operation
- The Long Telegram (1946) Document
- Lonsdale ring see The Portland spy ring
- Lord (British name, per some accounts) see Operation Silver (the Vienna tunnels)
- LPMEDLEY (CIA cover support) see Operation Shamrock
- Lucy see The Lucy spy ring
- The Lucy spy ring Operation
M
- "Make the economy scream": Helms's notes of 15 September 1970 Document
- The "Moscow Rules" Tradecraft
- Magic and the breaking of Purple Operation
- Markus Wolf Person
- Meeting the Espionage Challenge: the Senate's verdict on the Year of the Spy (1986) Document
- Melita Norwood Person
- Meredith Gardner's first Venona report: "Covernames in Diplomatic Traffic" (1947) Document
- MHCHAOS see Operation CHAOS
- Microdots Tradecraft
- Project Minaret Operation
- MINARET see Project Minaret
- Operation Mincemeat Operation
- Mission 3101 see Intelligence in the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Mission 9009 see CORONA
- Mivtza Yahalom see Operation Diamond
- MKDELTA see Project MKUltra
- MKSEARCH see Project MKUltra
- Project MKUltra Operation
- MKULTRA see Project MKUltra
- MOCKINGBIRD see Project Mockingbird (1963)
- Project Mockingbird (1963) Operation
- Monarchist Organization of Central Russia see Operation Trust
- Operation Monastery Operation
- Monastyr see Operation Monastery
- Operation Mongoose Operation
- Morris and Lona Cohen Person
- Moscow Municipal Credit Association see Operation Trust
- Mossad Agency
- MOTsR see Operation Trust
- MUDLARK (CIA loss inquiry) see The U-2 program and the 1960 shoot-down
N
- National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Agency
- The National Security Act of 1947 Document
- National Security Agency (NSA) Agency
- NEPTUN see Operation Neptune (1964)
- Operation Neptune (1964) Operation
- New Left program see COINTELPRO
- Noor Inayat Khan Person
- Operation Northwoods Operation
- The Northwoods memorandum (1962) Document
- NSA's secret history of the Pelton trial and the Ivy Bells leak (1999) Document
- NSC 10/2: covert action authorized (1948) Document
- NSC 68 (1950) Document
- Numbers stations Tradecraft
O
- Operation Andreas see Operation Bernhard
- Operation Bayonet see Operation Wrath of God
- Operation Boot see Operation Ajax (TPAJAX)
- Operation Cicero see The Cicero affair
- Operation Coldfeet see Project Coldfeet
- Operation Crossword see Operation Sunrise
- Operation Finale see The capture of Adolf Eichmann
- Operation GRAND SLAM (mission 4154) see The U-2 program and the 1960 shoot-down
- Operation Grouse (advance party) see Operation Gunnerside
- Operation Kama (submarine component) see Operation Anadyr
- Operation Momentum see The secret war in Laos
- OBOPUS/BGFIEND see Operation Valuable (Albania)
- Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Agency
- Oleg Penkovsky Person
- On the Trail of Nazi Counterfeiters: a CIA historian on Operation Bernhard (2002) Document
- One-time pads Tradecraft
- OPC's revaluation of the Albanian operation (29 November 1949) Document
- The OSS interrogation of Richard Kauder, alias Klatt (August 1945) Document
- Overcast see Operation Paperclip
- Overhead reconnaissance Tradecraft
- Project Oxcart Operation
- Operation Stopwatch (British name) see Operation Gold (the Berlin Tunnel)
- Operation Susannah see The Lavon affair
- Operation Swallow see Operation Gunnerside
- Operation Zapata see The Bay of Pigs invasion
P
- "Project AZORIAN: The Story of the Hughes Glomar Explorer" Document
- Project GUSTO (design competition) see Project Oxcart
- P-26 (Swiss counterpart) see Operation Gladio
- Operation Paperclip Operation
- Project Paperclip see Operation Paperclip
- Operation Pastorius Operation
- PBFORTUNE see Operation PBSuccess
- PBHISTORY see Operation PBSuccess
- PBJOINTLY see Operation Gold (the Berlin Tunnel)
- Operation PBSuccess Operation
- Operation PBSUCCESS: the CIA's own history of the Guatemala coup (Cullather, 1994) Document
- Penkovskiy's Legacy: a CIA analyst on the IRONBARK papers (1972) Document
- The Phoenix Program Operation
- Phung Hoang see The Phoenix Program
- PINNACLE see Operation Holystone
- The plots against Fidel Castro Operation
- Portland spy case see The Portland spy ring
- The Portland spy ring Operation
- Prestol (Throne) see Operation Monastery
- PROP see The CIA and the Congo crisis, 1960–61
- Provincial Reconnaissance Units see The Phoenix Program
- PURPLE see Magic and the breaking of Purple
Q
- QJWIN see The CIA and the Congo crisis, 1960–61
- Quicksilver see Operation Fortitude
R
- Ramon Garcia see The Hanssen case
- Ramsay see The Sorge spy ring
- The Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) Operation
- Red Three see The Lucy spy ring
- Operation Redsox Operation
- REDSOX see Operation Redsox
- REGAL see Operation Gold (the Berlin Tunnel)
- Reinhard Gehlen Person
- Richard Helms Person
- Richard Sorge Person
- Richard Sorge's own typescript: the discarded Shanghai draft of his confession (1941) Document
- ROAM see TOPHAT: the Polyakov case
- Robert Hanssen Person
- The Rockefeller Commission on Operation CHAOS (1975) Document
- Rote Drei see The Lucy spy ring
- The Rote Drei: CIA's study of the 'Lucy' radio traffic (c. 1969) Document
- Rote Kapelle see The Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle)
- Rudolf Abel (William Fisher) Person
- Ruth Werner (SONYA) Person
- Operation RYAN Operation
- RYaN see Operation RYAN
S
- SCANATE see The Stargate Project
- Schulze-Boysen/Harnack group see The Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle)
- SDECE and DST (French intelligence) Agency
- Sebold case see The Duquesne spy ring
- Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Agency
- The secret war in Laos Operation
- Secret writing Tradecraft
- Security Service (MI5) Agency
- Operation Shamrock Operation
- SHAMROCK see Operation Shamrock
- Sidney Reilly Person
- Signals intelligence Tradecraft
- SILVER see Operation Silver (the Vienna tunnels)
- Operation Silver (the Vienna tunnels) Operation
- Operation Sindikat-2 Operation
- Sindikat-2 see Operation Sindikat-2
- Skye see Operation Fortitude
- SNIE 11-10-84: the intelligence community reads the war scare (May 1984) Document
- SNIE 85-3-62: the estimate that ruled out missiles in Cuba (1962) Document
- Sorge case see The Sorge spy ring
- Sorge incident see The Sorge spy ring
- The Sorge spy ring Operation
- The Soviet "War Scare" (PFIAB, 1990) Document
- Soviet Acquisition of Militarily Significant Western Technology: An Update (1985) Document
- Soviet atomic espionage (Enormoz) Operation
- Special Guerrilla Units see The secret war in Laos
- Special Operations Executive (SOE) Agency
- Special Operations Group see Operation CHAOS
- ST BARNUM see ST CIRCUS: the CIA in Tibet
- ST CIRCUS see ST CIRCUS: the CIA in Tibet
- ST CIRCUS: the CIA in Tibet Operation
- STAGE see Operation Washtub
- STAR GATE see The Stargate Project
- The Stargate Project Operation
- Stasi (Ministry for State Security) Agency
- Stay-Behind see Operation Gladio
- Stay-Behind Agent Program see Operation Washtub
- StB (Czechoslovak State Security) Agency
- Stigmatic see Operation Washtub
- Studio Six Productions see The Canadian Caper
- SUN STREAK see The Stargate Project
- Operation Sunrise Operation
- Surveillance and countersurveillance Tradecraft
- Syndicate-2 see Operation Sindikat-2
- Syndikat-2 see Operation Sindikat-2
T
- The Bern incident see Operation Sunrise
- The Billion Dollar Spy see The Tolkachev case
- The Cuba Project see Operation Mongoose
- The Enterprise see The Iran–Contra affair
- The Man Who Never Was see Operation Mincemeat
- Target Intelligence Committee see TICOM
- Task Force W see Operation Mongoose
- Team Frederick in Brittany: the OSS London war diary, 1944 Document
- the photo gap see Intelligence in the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Theodore Hall Person
- TICOM Operation
- The Tolkachev case Operation
- TOPHAT see TOPHAT: the Polyakov case
- TOPHAT: the Polyakov case Operation
- TPAJAX see Operation Ajax (TPAJAX)
- Track II and Chile, 1970 Operation
- Track Two see Track II and Chile, 1970
- TRAMP see The Duquesne spy ring
- Trest see Operation Trust
- Trojan Horse (Cholmondeley's draft) see Operation Mincemeat
- Truman approves the expansion of Paperclip (August–September 1946) Document
- Operation Trust Operation
- Twenty Committee see The Double-Cross System
- Type B cipher machine see Magic and the breaking of Purple
U
- The U-2 program and the 1960 shoot-down Operation
- Ultra and the breaking of Enigma Operation
- Undercover Armies: the CIA's secret history of its war in Laos (2006) Document
- Unternehmen Bernhard see Operation Bernhard
V
- VALUABLE see Operation Valuable (Albania)
- Operation Valuable (Albania) Operation
- Vasili Mitrokhin Person
- Vemork raid see Operation Gunnerside
- A Venona decrypt: New York 1657, 27 November 1944 Document
- The Venona project Operation
- Views on Trained Cats see Acoustic Kitty
- Virginia Hall Person
- Vladimir Vetrov (FAREWELL) Person
- VORWÄRTS II see Operation INFEKTION
- VRYAN see Operation RYAN
W
- Walker family spy ring see The Walker spy ring
- The Walker spy ring Operation
- Walker–Whitworth case see The Walker spy ring
- Operation Washtub Operation
- What the CIA told the State Department about Eichmann (July 1960) Document
- What the Germans could read: the TICOM report, Volume 1, Synopsis (1946) Document
- White Hate Group program see COINTELPRO
- Whittaker Chambers Person
- Wilhelm Canaris Person
- William Colby Person
- William Colby on Phoenix before the Senate (1970) Document
- William J. Donovan Person
- WIROGUE see The CIA and the Congo crisis, 1960–61
- Operation Wrath of God Operation
X
- XX System see The Double-Cross System
Y
- Year of the Spy see 1985, the Year of the Spy
- YOGA see IRONBARK: the Penkovsky case
- Yuri Andropov Person
Z
- ZR/RIFLE see The plots against Fidel Castro