LIST 23

34 CIA Cryptonyms

The CIA uses cryptonyms (code names) extensively in its communications and other internal documents. Over the years, many of them have been decoded.

1. AMQUACK

Ernesto “Che” Guevara

2. AMTHUG

Fidel Castro

3. BGGYPSY

Russia or a Russian

4. DTFROGS

El Salvador

5. FJHOPEFUL

a military base

6. GPFLOOR

Lee Harvey Oswald

7. HTKEEPER

Mexico City

8. HTPLUME

Panama

9. ISOLATION

Camp Peary, the CIA's spook-training school near Williamsburg Virginia.

10. KMFLUSH

Nicaragua

11. KMPAJAMA

Mexico

12. KMPLEBE

Peru

13. KUBARK

Central Intelligence Agency

14. KUCLUB

CIA Office of Communications

15. KUDOVE

Office of the Director of Central Intelligence

16. KUFIRE

intelligence

17. KUGOWN

propaganda

18. KUSODA

CIA interrogators

19. LCFLUTTER

Polygraph, or possibly truth serum

20. LCPANGS

Costa Rica

21. ODACID

US Embassy

22. ODEARL

Department of Defense

23. ODENVY

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

24. ODOATH

US Navy

25. ODUNIT

US Air Force

26. ODYOKE

US government

27. PBPRIME

United States

28. QKFLOWAGE

United States Information Agency

29. RNMAKER

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

30. RTACTION

CIA

31. SGSWIRL

polygraph

32. SGUAT

CIA station in Guatemala

33. WSBURNT

Guatemala

34. WSHOOFS

Honduras