In many other cases, a Venona cryptonym has not yet been linked to any person.

Note that a cryptonym does not imply anything about its designee, such as gender.

Older terms are known to gain new, sometimes contradictory, meanings (e.g., eponym and cryptonym).

The base cryptonym "ball" had been used during the Cold War when dealing with informants who had intelligence about weapons.

In some cases, notably Hiss, the matching of a Venona cryptonym to an individual is disputed.

United Fruit Company is the only company known to have a CIA cryptonym.

The U.S. intelligence community uses many code names (see, for example, CIA cryptonym).

A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project or person.

Each CIA cryptonym contains a two character prefix called a digraph, which designates a geographical or functional area.

Cryptonym possibly based on Martin lUtheR KINg.

One went by the cryptonym GTTAW.

Further complicating matters is the fact the same person sometimes had different cryptonyms at different times, and the same cryptonym was sometimes reused for different individuals.

He is referred to as a Soviet source in the OSS in the Venona traffic under the cryptonym "Cautious".

Examples from publications by former CIA personnel show that the terms "code name" and "cryptonym" can refer to the names of operations as well as to individual persons.

UNIFRUIT: United Fruit Company Note: unlikely to be a cryptonym as such.

When Dewey went away, I noticed the cryptonym, or the agent's code name, on the file jacket: XXXXXXX/1.

KUBARK was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency cryptonym for the CIA itself.

The station itself had the cryptonym JMWAVE; operations using it had their own cryptonyms or code words, such as Operation Mongoose.

The CIA assigned the cryptonym "Aquatone" to the project, with the Air Force using the name "Oilstone" for their support to the CIA.

The word "Siro," as Mr. Ignatius uses it, is a cryptonym, an utterly meaningless phrase that is used in agency communications to stand for the C.I.A.

John Earl Haynes, "Cover Name, Cryptonym, CPUSA Party Name, Pseudonym, and Real Name Index.

As it had been sent from New York and had its origins in the British Embassy in Washington, Philby, who would not have known Maclean's cryptonym, deduced the sender's identity.

A few days later, the affidavit said, Mr. Ames wrote the following message on his home computer: "I did learn that Gtprologue is the cryptonym for the S.C.D. officer I provided you information about earlier."

While the coup is commonly referred to as Operation Ajax after its CIA cryptonym, in Iran it is referred to as the 28 Mordad 1332 coup, after its date on the Iranian calendar.

The name Philby Greenstreet, however, purportedly became a great deal more than simply a cryptonym, assuming the proportions of urban legend, not unlike that of the mythical character Keyser Söze in the film "The Usual Suspects."