Codebreaker unlocks the 3,000 secrets of US military vocabulary

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Independent
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
24 January 2005


If you had heard of "Power Geyser", "Titrant Ranger", "Toychest" or "Barracuda" before today, you were privy to the innermost workings of the US defence establishment. Now, however, those secrets are being exposed to general scrutiny for the first time.

In a remarkable book to be published this week, William Arkin, a former intelligence officer and analyst, lists and defines 3,000 codenames for military and national security plans past and present, several of them involving Britain and many of them still classified.

"Project 19" is about the defence of Taiwan against an attack by China. "Beady Eye", "Barracuda", "Soothsayer", "Delphin", "Pinemartin" and "Odette" are among the 13 codenames listed by Mr Arkin for British intelligence operations related to the "war on terror".

Mr Arkin, a campaigner for greater government disclosure, says the 600-page Codenames is intended as a "DNA map of American national security".

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=603956

[cthrumatrix]

1. this book can come out and Sibel Edmunds can't say a word?

seems to me that something is "out of whack".

[AP]

2. Any of those code names relate to JK Rowling?

Nothing happened last Thursday. The wait continues.

[emad]

3. Judgement was expected last week in a in-camera session at

the Royal Courts of Justice. Ruling concerns admissability of evidence held by Home Office, and ex-Home Secretary David Blunkett's 2004 gag on it.

[AP]

6. Who is the presiding judge?

[Bridget Burke]

7. You are lacking in faith!

Why must you keep asking questions? The truth will be revealed to us peasants in the fulness of time.

[MADem]

4. They do have a way of picking dinky, oddball names

...at least that has been my experience.

Of course, with this administration, they pick STUPID names, like CRUSADE, and OPERATION IRAQI LIBERATION (OIL) and then have to backtrack and change them...

What's worse? Dinky or dumb????

[central scrutinizer]

9. it has to sound manly

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[RobertSeattle]

5. Isn't the main code word for the Bush #43 Admin "SNAFU"?...

:evilgrin:

[Straight Shooter]

8. Nope. It's "FUBAR"

"SNAFU" is the main code word for the Social Security crisis-in-making.