CIA Cryptonyms: WU
The CIA cryptonyms on this page show those which are begin with the two-letter bigram WU. 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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WURefers to companies that are vetted and accommodating to the CIA. [status: Probable]
WUBONBONBook publishing project - one of the Domestic Operations Division propaganda programs supervised by E. Howard Hunt.
WUBRINYOverseas operations that involved a number of financial entities involved in proprietary commercial operations in Europe, Haiti, and elsewhere. One of them was the International Capital Corporation, also known as ICAP aka WUSALINE. John Train, a CIA contract agent, was ICAP's president and known as WUBRINY-1.
WUBRINY-1John Train, CIA contract agent, member of the investment firm of Train, Cabot and Associates, New York (cryptonym WUSALIFY), and the president of the International Capital Corporation (known publicly as ICAP - cryptonym WUSALINE).
WUCLASSIC-88Adrian Fisher Sherman, Jr.
WUINDIGO-1Unknown identity. A dispatch in 1968 mentioned that WUINDIGO-1 had been recruited by the CIA in 1959. W-1 had apparently "successfully performed difficult operational tasks" in countries such as China, Laos, Vietnam, Brazil, and the USSR. [status: Unknown]
WUMUTUALA mutual fund, used as a proprietary corporation by the CIA. [status: Probable]
WUOUTDONEEl Paso Natural Gas Company.
WUPUNDITAccording to Dan Hardway's HSCA notes, WUPUNDIT operations in 1964 included Praeger, Freedom Fund, Inc. (conduit), Seaman's Service Institute, a Praeger Spanish affiliate, and Continental Press, Inc.
WURABBITAccording to notes by Dan Hardway, the WURABBIT project dealt with Continental Press, Inc., a news service based in Washington, D.C. It provided news analysis, comics, editorials to foreign publications.
WUSALIFYTrain, Cabot & Associates investment firm, a holding corporation that includes the CIA proprietary known as WUSALINE as a subsidiary.
WUSALINEInternational Capital Corporation (ICAP), a proprietary corporation housed and managed by the investment firm of Train, Cabot and Associates, New York.
WUSLAB-1Unknown identity. WUSLAB-1 was a CIA Bolivian asset from at least March of 1970 to December of 1975. [status: Unknown]
WUTACTICWUTACTIC was described as "a DO proprietary company" in a memo on September 19, 1968.
WUTARDYA developmental and target opportunity project. Sub-projects were targeted abroad. [status: Unknown]