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CIA cryptonym

CIA cryptonyms are code names or code words used by the CIA to reference projects, operations, persons, agencies, etc. The cryptonyms described in this article were in use at least from the 1950s to the 1980s. It is likely that they have since been replaced by another system.

Located at 38.9517, -77.1467 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Central Intelligence Agency, Military terminology of the United States, Code names

Operation Mockingbird

Operation Mockingbird was a secret Central Intelligence Agency campaign to influence media beginning in the 1950s. The operation was first called Mockingbird in Deborah Davis' 1979 book, Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and her Washington Post Empire. More evidence of Mockingbird's existence emerged in the 2007 memoir American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond, by convicted Watergate "plumber" E.

Located at 38.9517, -77.1467 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Central Intelligence Agency operations, American political media, Propaganda in the United States, 1948 establishments in the United States, Code names

Project ARTICHOKE

Project ARTICHOKE (also referred to as Operation ARTICHOKE) was a CIA project that researched interrogation methods and arose from Project BLUEBIRD on August 20, 1951, run by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence. A memorandum by Richard Helms to CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles indicated Artichoke became Project MKULTRA on April 13, 1953.

Located at 38.9517, -77.1467 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Central Intelligence Agency operations, Medical research, 20th-century military history of the United States, Military psychiatry, Mind control, Psychedelic research, History of the United States government, United States historical documents, Code names

Phoenix Program

The Phoenix Program was a program designed, coordinated, and executed by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), United States special operations forces, special forces operatives from the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), and the Republic of Vietnam's (South Vietnam) security apparatus during the Vietnam War. The Program was designed to identify and "neutralize" the infrastructure of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.

Located at 38.9517, -77.1467 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Central Intelligence Agency operations, Dirty wars, Forced disappearance, Military operations of the Vietnam War, Terrorism in Vietnam, Terrorist incidents in the 1960s, Terrorist incidents in the 1970s, Torture in Vietnam, War crimes in Vietnam, Vietnam War

Project MKNAOMI

MKNAOMI was the code name for a joint Department of Defense/CIA research program lasting from the 1950s through the 1970s. Unclassified information about the MKNAOMI program and the related Special Operations Division is scarce.

Located at 38.9517, -77.1467 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Biological warfare, Central Intelligence Agency operations, Medical research, Military history of the United States, Military psychiatry, Mind control, Psychedelic research, Military projects, Code names

CIA Museum

The CIA Museum, administered by the Center for the Study of Intelligence, is the primary national archive for the collection, preservation, documentation and exhibition of intelligence artifacts, culture, and history. The collection, which currently numbers 3,500 items, is held in trust for the American people.

Located at 38.9518, -77.1466 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Museums in Fairfax County, Virginia, Central Intelligence Agency, Espionage, Military and war museums in Virginia, Non public museums in the United States

Technical Services Staff

Technical Services Staff is the United States Central Intelligence Agency component responsible for providing supporting gadgets, disguises, forgeries, secret writings, and weapons. In the 1950s and early 1960s it also researched, investigated, and experimented the use of drugs, chemicals, hypnosis, and isolation to extract information during interrogation, as well as to make it easier for American captives to resist interrogation. It is part of the Directorate of Science & Technology.

Located at 38.9517, -77.1467 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Central Intelligence Agency, Espionage

Project FUBELT

Project FUBELT (also known as Track II) is the code name for the secret Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations that were to prevent Salvador Allende rise to power before his confirmation, and promote a military coup in Chile. The highlights of Project FUBELT are cited in declassified U.S. government documents released by the National Security Archive on September 11, 1998, 25 years after the coup, as well as in papers uncovered by a 1975 congressional inquiry.

Located at 38.9517, -77.1467 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Central Intelligence Agency operations, Classified documents, Chile under Salvador Allende, Dirty wars, Chile–United States relations

Operation CHAOS

Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was the code name for a domestic espionage project conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency. A department within the CIA was established in 1967 on orders from President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson and later expanded under President Richard Nixon. The operation was launched under Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Richard Helms, by chief of counter-intelligence, James Jesus Angleton, and headed by Richard Ober.

Located at 38.9517, -77.1467 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Central Intelligence Agency operations, History of cryptography, Central Intelligence Agency domestic surveillance operations, Espionage, FBI operations, Government databases in the United States

Operation 40

Operation 40 was a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored undercover operation in the early 1960s, which was active in the United States and the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico. It was approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in March 1960, after the January 1959 Cuban Revolution, and was presided over by Vice-president Richard Nixon.

Located at 38.9517, -77.1467 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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American spies, Central Intelligence Agency operations, Opposition to Fidel Castro, Cuba–United States relations

Claude Moore Colonial Farm

The Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run is the only privately run park in the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The Friends of Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run Inc. , a privately funded foundation, pays for all activities on the farm, while the land is owned by the NPS. The Farm is located in Langley, Virginia, a suburb of McLean, Virginia, next to the George Bush Center for Intelligence and the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.

Located at 38.9516, -77.1538 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Colonial Virginia, Museums in Fairfax County, Virginia, Open air museums in Virginia, Landmarks in Virginia, McLean, Virginia, Living museums in Virginia, United States National Park Service areas in Virginia, Parks in Fairfax County, Virginia, Farm museums in Virginia

Operation WASHTUB

Operation WASHTUB was a CIA-organized covert operation to plant a phony Soviet arms cache in Nicaragua to demonstrate Guatemalan ties to Moscow. It was part of the effort to overthrow the President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in 1954. On February 19, 1954, the CIA planted a cache of Soviet-made arms on the Nicaraguan coast to be "discovered" weeks later by fishermen in the pay of Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza García.

Located at 38.9517, -77.1467 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Conflicts in 1954, Central Intelligence Agency operations, False flag operations, History of Guatemala