After watching The Bourne Ultimatum‘s use of the code BLACKBRIAR on ECHELON, I looked up the following CIA cryptonyms.
Operations and Projects
APPLE
ARTICHOKE: Anti-interrogation project. Precursor to MKULTRA.
AQUATONE: Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane Project
BIRCH
BLUEBIRD: mind control program
CHALICE: Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane Project
CHATTER
CHERRY: Covert assassination / destabilization operation during Vietnam war, targeting Prince (later King) Norodom Sihanouk and the government of Cambodia. Disbanded.
CONDOR: 1970s CIA interference in Latin American governments, some allege in the coup and assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile
CORONA: Satellite photo system.
DBACHILLES: 1995 effort to support a military coup in Iraq. [1]
ECHELON: worldwide signals intelligence and analysis network run by the UKUSA Community.
FIR
GUSTO: Project to design a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane
HTAUTOMAT: Photointerpretation center established for the Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane Project
HTLINGUAL: Mail interception operation.
IDIOM: Initial work by Convair on a follow-on to the Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane. Later moved into GUSTO.
IAFEATURE: Operation to support UNITA and FNLA during the Angolan civil war.
KEMPSTER: Project to reduce the radar cross section (RCS) of the inlets of the Lockheed A-12 Spy Plane
LEMON
LINCOLN: Ongoing operation involving Basque separatist group ETA
LPMEDLEY: Surveillance of telegraphic information exiting or entering the United States
MHCHAOS: Surveillance of antiwar activists during the Vietnam War
MKDELTA: Stockpiling of lethal biological and chemical agents, subsequently became MKNAOMI
MKNAOMI: Stockpiling of lethal biological and chemical agents, successor to MKDELTA
MKULTRA: Mind control research. MKULTRA means MK (code for scientific projects) and ULTRA (top classification reference, re: ULTRA code breaking in WWII. Renamed MKSEARCH in 1964
MKSEARCH: MKULTRA after 1964, mind control research
MKOFTEN: Testing effects of biological and chemical agents, part of MKSEARCH
OAK: Operation to assassinate suspected South Vietnamese collaborators during Vietnam war
OXCART: Lockheed A-12 Spy Plane Project
PAPERCLIP: US recruiting of German scientists after the Second World War
PHOENIX: Vietnam covert intelligence/assassination operation.
PINE
PBFORTUNE: CIA project to supply forces opposed to Guatemala’s President Arbenz with weapons, supplies, and funding; predecessor to PBSUCCESS.
PBHISTORY: Central Intelligence Agency project to gather and analyze documents from the Arbenz government in Guatemala that would incriminate Arbenz as a Communist.
PBSUCCESS: (Also PBS) Central Intelligence Agency covert operation to overthrow the Arbenz government in Guatemala.
RAINBOW: Project to reduce the radar cross section (RCS) of the Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane
SHERWOOD: CIA radio broadcast program in Nicaragua begun on May 1, 1954.
THERMOS: Unclassified codeword used in lieu of RAINBOW
TPAJAX: Joint US/UK operation to overthrow Mohammed Mossadeq, Prime Minister of Iran
TSS: Technical Services Staff
WASHTUB: Operation to plant Soviet arms in Nicaragua
Countries
AE: Soviet Union
AM: Cuba (1960s)
AV: Uruguay
BE: Poland
BI: Argentina
CK: Soviet Union
DI: Czechoslovakia
DM: Yugoslavia
DN: South Korea
DU: Peru
EC: Ecuador
ES: Guatemala
GT: Soviet Union
HA: Indonesia (1958)
IA: Angola
LI: Mexico
MH: Worldwide operation
MK: Projects sponsored by the CIA’s Technical Services Division (1950s/1960s)
OD: Other US Government Departments (1960s)
PB: Guatemala (1954)
SM: United Kingdom
TP: Iran (1953)
TU: South Vietnam
WI: Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960s)
ZR: Normally prefixes the cryptonym for an intelligence intercept program. E.g. ZR/RIFLE, for a Castro assassination plot which was buried. (1960s)