CIA Cryptonyms: UN
The CIA cryptonyms on this page show those which are begin with the two-letter bigram UN. Bigrams are used to group cryptonyms into sets related to a particular category, based on characteristics such as geographic location (AM => Cuba) or other methods of grouping (KU => organizations of the CIA itself).
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UNOperations or agents based in France.
UNBOUNDFrench security/intelligence service, probably SDECE. [status: Speculative]
UNCRISPResearcher Malcolm Blunt thinks there might be a USIA link to this program. [status: Unknown]
UNIONAn official French service. Possibly SDECE.
UNION-11Unknown identity. UNION-11 visited Cuba in August of 1962, and was apparently sending radio messages to the French Embassy (UNION) for the leader of the UR. UNION-11 was investigating rumors of an impending uprising. [status: Unknown]
UNPAPIST-1Unknown identity. According to a June 1965 CIA dispatch, UNPAPIST-1 acted as PA for UNRUMBLE-2 (Pedro Ruiz Quintero, a Cuban medical student) while the latter was in Paris. [status: Unknown]
UNPOLKAUNPOLKA was the cryptonym for the French journalist, Victor Franco (1930 - February 18, 2018). A cable on October 6, 1976, stated that Castro took umbrage at UNPOLKA's 1962 book on Cuba "La Revolution Sensuelle" (The Sensual Revolution).
UNRUMBLEParisian operation focused on Cuba. [status: Unknown]
UNRUMBLE-2Pedro Ruiz Quintero, a Cuban medical student living in Paris.
UNRUMBLE-6Parisian agent communicating by shortwave with Manuel Ray of JURE. [status: Unknown]
UNSIERRAUNSIERRA may have been a joint CIA-French intelligence (possibly SDECE) surveillance operation focused on the Cuban Embassy in Paris. A memo in April of 1977, by Chris Hopkins (LAD/JFK Task Force), referred to UNSIERRA as "defunct" and stated that the files were located in archives in Warrenton. [status: Speculative]
UNSNAFU-11Unknown identity. A cable on December 13, 1962, stated that UNRUMBLE-2 (Pedro Ruiz Quintero) said that UNSNAFU-11's brother and possibly UNRUMBLE-5 were dangerous Cubans in Paris outside the embassy. [status: Unknown]
UNSNAFU-12Marta Frayde. A memo in April of 1977 stated that UNSNAFU-12 was "Marta Frayde, a Cuban alternate delegate to UNESCO and an unwitting FI source at that time."
UNSNAFU-13A cable in 1965 stated that UNSNAFU-13 was Emilia Trasancos, wife of Luis Enrique Trasancos (UNSNAFU-9).
UNSNAFU-14UNSNAFU-14 was Juan David Posada, Cuban cultural attaché to Uruguay and France. A cable on April 27, 1964, had Juan David Posada handwritten above UNSNAFU-14 with a line pointing to the latter.
UNSNAFU-19Cuban Ambassador to Paris, Antonio Maria Carrillo Carreras. A May, 1965, cable included the 201 numbers of UNSNAFU-9 and 19. The 201 number for UNSNAFU-19 was 201-349956. A 1969 dispatch stated that Antonio Carrillo Carreras had a 201 number of 201-349956.
UNSNAFU-5Angel Luis Fernandez Ruiz, worked at Cuban Embassy in Paris. Also known as "El Ingles".
UNSNAFU-7Unknown identity. A cable at the end of December 1964 stated that the CIA's Paris Station had an interest in penetrating UNSNAFU-7 offices. [status: Unknown]
UNSNAFU-8Manuel Ramon Morales Menendez. Worked as an attaché at the consulate in the Cuban Embassy in Paris, France, from at least December, 1962, to his dismissal around February, 1965.
UNSNAFU-9Luis Enrique Trasancos, a CIA penetration agent at the Cuban embassy in Paris.
UNSOBER-1Unknown identity. UNSOBER-1 was a CIA asset and French journalist in 1974. CIA hoped to use UNSOBER-1 to obtain an interview with General Pinochet, and provide generally favorable coverage of his Chilean regime. [status: Unknown]
UNSTARDescribed as a "French diplomat", who in the days after 11/22/63 allegedly claimed that JFK was killed due to a joint plot by the Chinese government and Castro. [status: Speculative]
UNTROPHYUnknown identity. A Information Field Report from Paris in April of 1963 described UNTROPHY as "a French official with good contacts in the Ministry of Interior (C)." [status: Unknown]