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CIA CRYPTONYMS

Specialty Definition: CIA cryptonym

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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 begins with a two-character prefix. The rest is an arbitrary dictionary word. Prefixes appear to be organized in some way. For example: 'KU' appears always to refer to a part of the CIA.

Partial list of CIA cryptonym's and probable definitions

• BGGYPSY - Russia; Russian
• FJHOPEFUL - military base
• MKULTRA
• KUBARK - the CIA
• KUCAGE -
• KUCLUB - Office of Communications
• KUDESK -
• KUDOVE - office of the director
• KUFIRE - intelligence
• KUGOWN - propaganda
• KUPALM -
• KUSODA -
• LCFLUTTER - truth drugs: sodium amytal (anobarbital), sodium pentothal (thiopental), and seconal (seconbarbital).
• ODACID - U.S. Embassy
• ODENVY - FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
• ODUNIT - U.S. Air Force
• ODYOKE - U.S. Government
• PBPRIME - the United States of America
• QKFLOWAGE - United States Information Agency

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "CIA cryptonym."

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