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The Norwegian duo were code named Mutt and Jeff after the popular comic strip characters of the time. "[6] A secret joint program between the Mexico City CIA station and the Mexican secret police to wiretap the Soviet and Cuban embassies was code-named ENVOY. White House Collection. Must be why the CIA calls these tools magic. NSA intelligence processing center located in Germany. F. Robert Naka Post was not sent - check your email addresses! White House Collection. Col Stuart H. Sherman, Jr. news, press releases, information and more, Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room, How to Check on the Status of Your FOIA Request, Documents Related to the Former Detention and Interrogation Program. [7], Some cryptonyms relate to more than one subject, e.g., a group of people. Goodwin was on the White House staff, and the plan concerned Cuba.

This is especially ironic given that Reagan was not an anti-government brave lone gun slinger type, but spent the whole of WW2 making military propaganda movies and then became an FBI informant snitching on suspected Communists. Under Secretary of the Air Force KUBARK: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); KUBASS: CIA Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T), KUCAGE: CIA Psychological and Paramilitary Operations Staff, KUCHAP: CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence (DDI), KUDOVE: CIA Deputy Director for Operations (DDO), KUGOWN: CIA Psychological and Paramilitary Operations Staff, KUHOOK: CIA Paramilitary Operations Staff, KUKNOB: CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI), KUMONK: CIA Office of Political Analysis (OPA), KUTWIN: Office of Strategic Services (OSS), KUWOLF: CIA Political and Psychological Staff. Two GCHQ mass surveillance programs also took their names from popular culture – Karma Police and Blazing Saddles. Each time information was not passed on, investigations were halted due to mysterious database glitches, obvious connections weren’t followed up and either this was a total pig’s breakfast or the cover for a much more nefarious plot. Perhaps the strangest and most disturbing use of pop culture in creating a code name is the Stepford Bombers – MI5’s code name for the alleged suicide bombers who attacked London on 7/7. Deputy for Requirements, SAFRD