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Cryptonym: KMWAAHOO

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Definition:
Albania.
Status:
Documented
Discussion:
"Wahoo!" was the exclamation many made when parachuting off a plane.
Sources:

BGFIEND/BGFLUME Progress Report, 15 December 1951 - 15 January 1952: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/OBOPUS%20BGFIEND%20%20%20VOL.%2020%20%20(BGFIEND%20OPERATIONS)_0023.pdf

"During the week before Christmas, REDACTED traveled to northern LCFLAKE with a portable radio in an effort to check reception. He listened on four separate nights with the following results: at a point two miles south of the KMWAAHOO border, in the neighborhood of the LCFLAKE town of Identity 1/Konnitsa (Greece), the program faded in about halfway through and increased in strength until sign-off." Konitsa is a town two miles south of the Albanian border: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konitsa

Security Information: HTNEIGH Reorganization and Broadening Discussions: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/OBOPUS%20BFIEND%20%20%20VOL.%2022%20%28BGFIEND%20OPERATIONS%29_0087.pdf

8/21/52 memo: "All members of HTNEIGH now have their eyes turned warily towards TPROACH and are beginning to fear that the (Prizren Group) may accomplish ZRWAAHOO's liberation before they have a chance to do it, which could conceivably result in recognition of that force by the ZRCROWN-PBPRIMES as an established government and spell the end of 8/21/52 HTNEIGH...(Malament) would settle for a regency, in which (Queen Geraldine) and himself, along with other unnamed personalities, would govern the post-liberated KMWAAHOO."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/oct/30/guardianobituaries

Queen Geraldine was the consort of King Zog of Albania.

157-10005-10228: TESTIMONY OF E. HOWARD HUNT, 10 JAN 1976

In 1954, E. Howard Hunt was the Chief of the division of political and psychological (PP) warfare affairs for Southeast Europe: Albania, Rumania, Greece, Yugoslavia, Trieste and Bulgaria. The CIA was having difficulties with King Zog's guard unit in West Germany that would parachute into Albania - they were disappearing and not coming back. Hunt alleged that Kim Philby was the cause. Col Boris Pash, rumored to be in charge of CIA "wet affairs" - assassinations - was sought out for his expertise. Hunt came away with the impression that "wet affairs" was the "only function" for Pash. The stories he had heard about Pash were "kidnappings" - in West Germany and West Berlin. Pash was directly responsible to the head of the PP staff. Those heads in that era were Tracy Barnes, John Baker, or Lewis W. Thompson. (pages 11-26 of 101). Organizational charts at pages 96-98 of 101. Hunt thought Jim Angleton and Bill Harvey (Chief of Berlin station) would have had knowledge of Pash.

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