Geography
Map of operations
Each marker is one operation, placed where it mainly happened. Select a marker for the file; filter by type, agency or decade. Shading shows NATO and the Warsaw Pact around 1985, on today's borders (Germany, divided until 1990, is hatched).
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NATO Warsaw Pact Germany (divided) Operation
All operations by place
- Albania Operation Valuable (Albania) Mati region, Albania, 1949
- Argentina The capture of Adolf Eichmann San Fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1957
- At sea Operation Holystone Waters off the Soviet Union (Barents Sea and North Pacific), 1959
- At sea Project Coldfeet Drifting station NP-8, Arctic Ocean (approximate), 1961
- At sea Project Azorian (the Glomar Explorer) North Pacific, about 1,560 miles northwest of Hawaii, 1969
- At sea Operation Ivy Bells Sea of Okhotsk, off the Kamchatka Peninsula, 1971
- Austria Operation Silver (the Vienna tunnels) Vienna, Austria, 1949
- Belgium Able Archer 83 and the war scare SHAPE, Casteau, Belgium, 1983
- Canada The Gouzenko affair Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1945
- Chile Track II and Chile, 1970 Santiago, Chile, 1970
- Congo The CIA and the Congo crisis, 1960–61 Léopoldville (Kinshasa), Congo, 1960
- Cuba The Bay of Pigs invasion Playa Girón, Bay of Pigs, Cuba, 1960
- Cuba The plots against Fidel Castro Havana, Cuba, 1960
- Cuba Operation Anadyr San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río, Cuba, 1962
- Cuba Intelligence in the Cuban Missile Crisis San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río, Cuba, 1962
- Czechoslovakia Operation Anthropoid Prague-Libeň, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 1941
- Czechoslovakia Operation Neptune (1964) Černé jezero (Black Lake), Šumava, Czechoslovakia, 1964
- Egypt The Lavon affair Alexandria, Egypt, 1954
- France Operation Jedburgh Central France (team HUGH dropped near Châteauroux), 1944
- Germany The Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) Berlin, Germany, 1938
- Germany Operation Bernhard Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Oranienburg, Germany, 1942
- Germany TICOM Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany, 1944
- Germany Operation Gold (the Berlin Tunnel) Altglienicke and Rudow, Berlin, 1953
- Guatemala Operation PBSuccess Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1953
- Iran Operation Ajax (TPAJAX) Tehran, Iran, 1953
- Iran The Canadian Caper Mehrabad Airport, Tehran, Iran, 1979
- Israel Operation Diamond Hatzor Air Base, Israel, 1963
- Italy Operation Gladio Capo Marrargiu, Sardinia, Italy, 1956
- Japan The Sorge spy ring Tokyo, Japan, 1933
- Japan Project Oxcart Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, 1959
- Laos The secret war in Laos Long Tieng, Laos, 1961
- Nepal ST CIRCUS: the CIA in Tibet Mustang, Nepal, 1957
- Norway Operation Gunnerside Vemork, near Rjukan, Telemark, Norway, 1943
- Norway Operation Wrath of God Lillehammer, Norway, 1972
- Pakistan Operation Cyclone Peshawar and Islamabad, Pakistan, 1979
- Soviet Union Operation Trust Moscow, Soviet Union, 1921
- Soviet Union Operation Sindikat-2 Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, 1922
- Soviet Union Operation Monastery Moscow, Soviet Union, 1941
- Soviet Union Operation Redsox Western Ukraine, Soviet Union, 1949
- Soviet Union The U-2 program and the 1960 shoot-down Kosulino, near Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union, 1954
- Soviet Union IRONBARK: the Penkovsky case Moscow, Soviet Union, 1961
- Soviet Union The Tolkachev case Moscow, Soviet Union, 1977
- Soviet Union The Farewell Dossier Moscow, Soviet Union, 1981
- Soviet Union Operation RYAN Moscow, Soviet Union, 1981
- Soviet Union Operation INFEKTION Moscow, Soviet Union, 1983
- Spain Operation Mincemeat Huelva, Spain, 1943
- Switzerland The Lucy spy ring Lucerne, Switzerland, 1942
- Switzerland Operation Sunrise Bern, Switzerland, 1945
- Turkey The Cicero affair Ankara, Turkey, 1943
- United Kingdom Ultra and the breaking of Enigma Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England, 1932
- United Kingdom The Cambridge Five Cambridge, England, 1934
- United Kingdom The Double-Cross System London, United Kingdom, 1939
- United Kingdom Operation Fortitude Kent and southeast England, 1944
- United Kingdom The Portland spy ring Isle of Portland, Dorset, England, 1951
- United States Magic and the breaking of Purple Washington, D.C., United States, 1939
- United States The Duquesne spy ring New York City, United States, 1940
- United States Soviet atomic espionage (Enormoz) Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1941
- United States Operation Pastorius Amagansett, Long Island, New York, 1942
- United States The Venona project Arlington Hall, Virginia, 1943
- United States Operation Paperclip Fort Bliss, Texas, 1945
- United States Operation Shamrock New York City, United States, 1945
- United States Operation Washtub Territory of Alaska, 1950
- United States Project MKUltra Washington, D.C., United States, 1953
- United States The Hollow Nickel case Brooklyn, New York, 1953
- United States COINTELPRO FBI Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States, 1956
- United States CORONA Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, 1958
- United States TOPHAT: the Polyakov case New York, United States, 1961
- United States Operation Mongoose Miami, Florida (JMWAVE station), 1961
- United States Operation Northwoods The Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, 1962
- United States Project Mockingbird (1963) Washington, D.C., United States, 1963
- United States Acoustic Kitty CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia, 1967
- United States Operation CHAOS CIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia, United States, 1967
- United States Project Minaret Fort Meade, Maryland, United States, 1967
- United States The Walker spy ring Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 1967
- United States The Stargate Project Fort Meade, Maryland, United States, 1972
- United States The Hanssen case Foxstone Park, Vienna, Virginia, United States, 1979
- United States The Iran–Contra affair Washington, D.C., United States, 1984
- United States 1985, the Year of the Spy Washington, D.C., United States, 1985
- Vietnam The Phoenix Program Saigon, South Vietnam, 1967
- West Germany The Guillaume affair Bonn, West Germany, 1956
Outlines: Natural Earth 1:110m countries (public domain), drawn in the Natural Earth projection by this site's build.