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Operation Ajax, jointly run with the British SIS under the codename TPAJAX, toppled Mohammad Mosaddegh after he nationalized the A...

Operation Paperclip, run by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency from 1945, recruited German scientists, engineers, and techni...

Operation Gold dug a tunnel from West Berlin under the sector boundary to intercept Soviet military communications cables, jointly...

Operation Mongoose was launched in late 1961 after the Bay of Pigs failure, comprising thirty three plans ranging from crop sabota...

Operation Ivy Bells began in the early 1970s, when divers delivered from submarines installed recording pods on Soviet communicati...

Project Acoustic Kitty surgically implanted a microphone and antenna in a cat during the 1960s, aiming to eavesdrop on conversatio...

Project Azorian used the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a ship built under a manganese nodule mining cover story, to lift part of the Sov...

Corona launched its first successful recovery in August 1960, when an aircraft snatched a film capsule from the Discoverer 14 miss...

MAGIC was the codename for American decryption of Japanese diplomatic communications, achieved by Army and Navy cryptanalysts agai...

MK-Ultra ran from 1953 into the early 1970s as a program of experiments on behavior modification, including the dosing of unwittin...

Operation Mincemeat planted fabricated invasion documents on the body of a dead man dressed as a Royal Marines officer, allowing i...

Operation Fortitude built a phantom army to convince Germany the 1944 landing would come at the Pas de Calais. Fake radio traffic,...

Ultra was the intelligence derived from breaking German Enigma and later Lorenz ciphers at Bletchley Park, building on prewar Poli...

Operation Wrath of God pursued those Israel held responsible for the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, condu...

Operation Entebbe freed more than a hundred hostages held by hijackers at Entebbe airport in July 1976 after an Air France flight ...

Operation Diamond persuaded Iraqi pilot Munir Redfa to defect with his MiG-21 in August 1966, landing at Hatzor airbase after a ci...

Operation Finale seized Adolf Eichmann, the logistical organizer of the Holocaust, from a Buenos Aires suburb in May 1960. Agents ...

Operation Gladio denotes the secret stay-behind networks armed across Western Europe after World War II to mount resistance behind...

ECHELON refers to the global interception and distribution network described by journalists and examined in a 2001 European Parlia...

Operation PBSuccess targeted President Jacobo Arbenz, whose land reform expropriated unused holdings of the United Fruit Company a...

In April 1961 about 1,400 Cuban exiles of Brigade 2506, trained and equipped by the CIA, landed at the Bay of Pigs on the southern...

Operation Anthropoid was the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office and acting Reich Protector of Bo...

In February 1943 a team of Norwegian commandos trained by the Special Operations Executive parachuted onto the Hardangervidda plat...

Begun in 1956 against the Communist Party USA, the FBI Counterintelligence Program expanded under J Edgar Hoover to target civil r...

Operation Bernhard, named after SS officer Bernhard Kruger, put skilled prisoners to work in a secret workshop at Sachsenhausen co...

Stuxnet, uncovered by security researchers in 2010, was sophisticated malware designed to manipulate Siemens industrial control sy...