| A |
|---|
| A-2 | Air Intelligence, US Army |
| AAF |
Army Air Forces |
| ABDA |
American-British-Dutch-Australian Command |
| Abwehr |
German military intelligence |
| ACC |
Allied Control Commission |
| AFHQ |
Allied Forces Headquarters (operations in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations) |
| AFO |
Anti-Fascist Organizations, Burma |
| AFPFL |
Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League, Burma |
| AGFRTS |
Air Ground Force Resources and Technical Staff, one of three OSS China commands |
| AI |
Air Intelligence, British Air Ministry |
| AIB |
Allied Intelligence Bureau |
| AKAK |
Trans-Pyrenees chain of agents operated by OSS, Spain |
| ALFSEA |
Allied Land Forces Southeast Asia |
| ALIU |
Art Looting Investigative Unit, OSS |
| ALOT |
American Liaison Officer Team (re: partisans in Italy) |
| AMZON |
American Zone of Germany |
| ANVIL |
Plan for the invasion of southern France, see later DRAGOON |
| APC |
Alien Property Custodian, U.S. |
| ATC |
Air Transport Command |
| B |
|---|
| BAAG |
British Army Aid Group, China |
| Baker Street |
Special Operations Executive (SOE) Headquarters in London |
| BAM |
British Air Ministry |
| BCRA |
French Gaullist intelligence and operational services |
| BIA |
Burma Independence Army |
| Birch |
OSS agent that penetrated Germany through Scandinavia in 1945 |
| BIS |
Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland |
| Black Series |
Kappa messages dealing with the Balkans (1944); questionable reports coming from the Vatican |
| Blue |
Sweden in 1943 Kappa messages |
| BEW |
Board of Economic Warfare, U.S. |
| BMEW |
British Ministry of Economic Warfare |
| BNA |
Burmese National Army |
| Bonty |
Lisbon, Portugal in Kappa messages |
| Boston Series |
Intelligence reports based on George Wood/Kappa information |
| BPF |
Burma Patriotic Front |
| Breakers |
German opposition groups |
| Broadway |
British intelligence (MI6 Headquarters) |
| Brown |
Spain in Kappa messages |
| BSC |
British Security Coordination |
| Buffalo |
OSS agent in Iraq |
| Bunny |
OSS agent in Iraq |
| Burns |
Allen Dulles (1942-1943) |
| C |
|---|
| CAPS |
Intelligence network in Geneva, Switzerland; reporting to the OSS |
| Carat |
OSS agent in Lebanon |
| Carib |
F.L. Mayer |
| Cassia |
Anti-Nazi underground group in Vienna, Austria |
| Castle |
Indicator for messages dealing with the German threat to Switzerland |
| CBI |
China-Burma-India Theater of Operations |
| CCS |
Combined Chiefs of Staff (US-UK) |
| C&D |
Censorship and Documents Branch, OSS |
| CE |
Counter Espionage |
| Cereus Circle |
Well connected individuals in Istanbul, Turkey; who provided information to the OSS |
| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
| CIB |
Counter Intelligence Branch |
| CIC |
Counter Intelligence Corps (Army G-2) |
| CID |
Central Information Division, OSS R&A Branch |
| CIG |
Central Intelligence Group |
| CLNAI |
Committee of National Liberation of Northern Italy |
| CSDIC |
Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Center (Allied interrogation service, pooled effort; pooled result |
| Coachman |
Ernst Kaltenbrunner |
| COI |
Coordinator of Information |
| Cousins |
The British |
| Critic |
German SS General Karl Wolff |
| Crossword |
British Designation for Operation Sunrise, a series of secret negotiations conducted in March 1945 in Switzerland between representatives of Nazi Germany and the Western Allies to arrange a local surrender of German forces in northern Italy |
| Crown Jewels |
Germans deemed to be important during the postwar period |
| CT or CTO |
China Theater of Operations |
| The Cub |
Hans Bernd Gisevius |
| Culber |
Hans Bernd Gisevius |
| D |
|---|
| Deuxieme Bureau |
French Intelligence Service |
| DGER |
Direction Generale des Etudes et Recherches (French intelligence unit) |
| DIP |
Division of Intelligence Procurement; unit of OSS London in charge of German Penetration |
| Division 19-SW |
National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) unit created for the purpose of 19-SW developing weapons and devices for the OSS |
| DMI |
National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) unit created for the purpose of developing weapons and devices for the OSS |
| Dogwood |
Source in Turkey (Alfred Schwarz) and head of the Cereus Circle |
| Drum |
OSS staff member in Bern, Switzerland; and point of contact for Drum messages early in the war |
| Drumbee |
Harold Drumbee was a code name for an Italian opposition figure |
| E |
|---|
| EAM |
Greek resistance movement |
| Ebert |
OSS agent in Mozambique |
| ECONIC |
Economic Intelligence |
| EDES |
Greek resistance |
| ELAS |
Greek Resistance |
| Elmer |
Elmer Davis, Director of the Office of War Information |
| Emperor |
German Field Marshal Albert Kesserling |
| EOU |
Enemy Objectives Unit of the Economic Warfare Division of the U.S. embassy, London, England |
| ESD44 |
Economic Survey Detachment Group 44 |
| ETO |
European Theater of Operations |
| ETOUSA |
European Theater of Operations, United States Army |
| F |
|---|
| FAAA Units |
OSS First Allied Airborne Army Detachment (activated August 1944) |
| Fat Boy |
German Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering |
| FEA |
Foreign Economic Administration, US |
| FEB |
Far Eastern Bureau, British Political Warfare Executive (PWE) mission in India |
| FED |
Foreign Exchange Division, OSS |
| FET |
Far Eastern Theater of Operations |
| FEU |
Field Experimental Unit, OSS |
FFI |
Forces Francaises de l’Interieur (Free French Forces) |
| FIDES |
OSS field detachment headquarters in France, 1944-1945 |
| FIME |
Forces in Middle East, British Army |
| Flash |
Allen Dulles evening radiotelephone transmission |
| Flute |
Professor Paul Scherrer |
| FNB |
Foreign Nationalities Branch, OSS |
| FO |
Foreign Office, British |
| Forking |
Code name for a German Jew residing in Ascona, Switzerland; who was a Source for Allied intelligence |
| FP |
Field Photograph Branch, OSS |
| Friends |
British |
| FTP |
Communist controlled French resistance groups |
| G |
|---|
| G-1 |
US Army personnel |
| G-2 |
US Army intelligence |
| G-3 |
US Army operations |
| G-4 |
US Army supply |
| G-5 |
US Army civil affairs |
| Garbo |
War Refugee Board |
| Gensis |
Direct Rome-Bern communication system for Operation Sunrise |
| Gerplan |
General Donovan’s plan for infiltration of Germany in 1944 |
| Grand |
German Foreign Ministry or German Government in Berlin (Kappa messages) |
| Gray |
Kappa indicator for Finland |
| Green |
Kappa indicator for Italy |
| Gregory |
OSS chief in Lisbon, Portugal |
| Grimm |
Germany |
| H |
|---|
| Handel und Wandel |
Weekly business publication produced by the OSS in Sweden |
| Harvard Plan |
German language propaganda periodical produced in Washington and Distributed by OSS Stockholm |
| HIHI |
Trans-Pyrenees chain of agents operated by OSS Spain |
| HO |
Hydrographic Office, US Navy |
| HOHO |
Trans-Pyrenees chain of agents operated by OSS Spain |
| I |
|---|
| IAMM |
Independent American Military Mission to Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia |
| IB or IBT |
India-Burma theater of Operations (beginning in 1944) |
| Iceland |
Category of material transmitted between Bern and Italy in 1944 |
| ICRC |
International Committee of the Red Cross |
| IDC |
Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications |
| IIU |
Insurance Intelligence Unit, OSS |
| INA |
Indian National Army |
| ITF |
International Federation of Transport Workers |
| ISLD |
Inter-Service Liaison Department, British (SIS/MI6 in Middle East and Far East) |
| J |
|---|
| JA |
Jewish Agency for Palestine |
| Jack and Jill |
German opposition group associated with Breakers |
| Jadwin Mission |
Operation designed to achieve the withdrawal of Bulgaria from the war |
| JANIS |
Joint Army-Navy intelligence studies, Army-Navy-OSS joint project |
| JCS |
Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| J-E (Joan-Eleanor) |
Communication device used between OSS ground agents and OSS personnel flying in an aircraft |
| Jennings, Charles B |
Fictitious name of Washington recipient of Dulles radiotelephone transmissions |
| JIC |
Joint Intelligence Committee |
| JICA |
Joint Intelligence Collection Agency, US intelligence pools in theaters of operation |
| Johnston, Bertram |
Cover name used to place Allen Dulles evening radiotelephone transmissions |
| Jones Series |
Relates to military deception |
| Jonny |
Left-wing resistance movement in Vienna, Austria |
| JSSC |
Joint Strategic Survey Committee, planning committee of the US JCS |
| K |
|---|
| K-28 |
Austrian source that provided information to OSS Bern, Switzerland |
| Kappa |
Indicator for messages containing information and documents obtained from the German Foreign Ministry by Frtiz Kolbe (code named George Wood) |
| KMT |
Koumintang, Chinese Nationalist party |
| L |
|---|
| Latte |
Kappa indicator for Budapest, Hungary |
| Lavender |
Kappa indicator for China |
| Luber |
Hans Bern Gisevius |
| M |
|---|
| MA |
Military Attache |
| Macgregor Mission |
OSS operation in Italy |
| Manet |
Great Britain |
| MPAJA |
Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army |
| Marie |
Series of Allen Dulles reports on France, beginning in December 1943 |
| MEDTO |
Mediterranean Theater of Operations |
| Medusa |
Large OSS intelligence gathering operation targeting France and Spain |
| MEW |
Ministry of Economic Warfare, British |
| MID |
Military Intelligence Division, US Army |
| MILORG |
Norwegian resistance |
| MI5 |
British Counter-Intelligence |
| MI6 |
British Secret Intelligence Service |
| MIS |
Military Intelligence Service, G-2, War Department general staff |
| MO |
Morale Operations, OSS psychological warfare unit |
| Motto |
OSS morale operations in London |
| MRL |
Maryland Research Laboratory, established to conduct research for the OSS |
| MU |
Maritime Unit, OSS |
| N |
|---|
| NATOUSA |
North African Theater of Operations, US Army |
| Nabors |
The Germans, neighbors to the Swiss |
| NEI |
Netherlands East Indies |
| NETO |
Near East Theater of Operations |
| Nicholson |
General Lyman Lemnitzer during Operation Sunrise |
| NATO |
North African Theater of Operations |
| O |
|---|
| OB |
Order of Battle, organization or hierarchy of military forces for battle |
| OELR |
Office of European Labor Research, New York City |
| OG |
Operational Groups (commando units), OSS |
| OI |
Oral Intelligence Branch, OSS |
| ONI |
Office of Naval Intelligence, US |
| Orange |
Kappa indicator for Bulgaria |
| ORI |
Italian resistance |
| Orlan |
Antonescu |
| OSO |
Office of Special Operations |
| OSS |
Office of Strategic Services |
| OVRA |
Italian secret police |
| OWI |
Office of War Information, US |
| Oysters |
Leader of an Austrian resistance movement coordinating committee |
| P |
|---|
| Paradise |
Certain Kappa cables involving the penetration of Germany |
Mrs. Pestalozzi |
Mary Bancroft, Ascona, Switzerland |
| Phillips, Carr |
Cover name for an Italian opposition figure |
| Pink |
Kappa indicator for Tangiers |
| Porto |
Kappa indicator for German diplomatic post |
| Prado |
Kappa indicator for Madrid |
| Proust Project |
Auxiliary operation to the Sussex Mission to build up a reserve pool of agents for any unforeseen situations of the post D-Day period |
| Pupin |
Brig. General Barnwell Legge, US Military Attache in Switzerland |
| PWB |
Psychological Warfare Board |
| PWD |
Psychological Warfare Division |
| PWE |
Political Warfare Executive, British |
| R |
|---|
| R&A |
Research and Analysis Branch, OSS |
| R&D |
Research and Development Division, OSS |
| Ralph |
Erwin Respondek |
| Raz |
Code name for a Swiss source in Basel |
| Red |
Eric Ericson, OSS agent in Stockholm, Sweden |
| Redbird |
OSS plan to establish contact with the Austrian resistance |
| Remus |
Morris “Mo” Berg |
| Rocky |
Person involved with the Breakers |
| S |
|---|
| SAARF |
Special Allied Airborne Reconnaissance Force, activated by SHAEF on March 29, 1945; to send to various POW camps in enemy territory |
| SACMED |
Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean |
| SACO |
Sino-American Cooperative Organization |
| Safehaven |
The overriding goal of SAFEHAVEN was to make it impossible for Germany to start another war. Specific goals included the restriction of German economic penetration, the prevention of Germany from sequestering assets in neutral countries, the assurance that German assets would be available for postwar reparations and the rebuilding of Europe, and the prevention of escape for members of the Nazi ruling elite who had been marked down for war crimes trials. |
| Saint |
OSS indicator for messages containing security and counter-intelligence |
| SBS |
Special Bari Section, OSS Balkan Operations |
| SCI |
Special Counter-Intelligence, joint operation of MI5 and X-2 |
| SCI/A |
Special Counter-Intelligence, Austria |
| SEAC |
Southeast Asia Command |
| SEATIC |
Southeast Asia Translation and Interrogation Center, SEAC |
| SEPALS |
OSS base camps in Scandinavia |
| SF Detachments |
SFHQ units attached to each of the army groups and ETO armies |
| SFE |
Survey of Foreign Experts, OSS |
| SFHQ |
Special Forces Headquarters, SO/SOE combined activities |
| SHAEF |
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force |
| SI |
Secret Intelligence Branch, OSS |
| SIFE |
Security Intelligence Far East, British MI5/SIS |
| SIM |
Servizio Informazioni Militare, Italian military intelligence service |
| SIME |
Security Intelligence Middle East, British |
| Simpson |
Code name for unofficial representative of the Czech government |
| SIS |
Secret Intelligence Service, British MI6 |
| SITREP |
Situation Report |
| SO |
Special Operations Branch, OSS |
| SOA |
Special Operations Australia |
| SOE |
Special Operations Executive, British |
| Sorel |
Slovakia |
| SOU |
Ship Observer Unit, OSS |
| The Spider |
Man of Moorish extraction who passed mail to Lisbon for OSS Bern, Switzerland |
| Spinster |
Code name for an important source on France in Geneva, Switzerland |
| Spirit |
Geneva, Switzerland |
| SPOC |
G-3 Special Project Operations Center, joint British-American organization in Algiers established to conduct operation in France |
| SR |
Intelligence section of the French professional secret service, the Deuxieme Bureau; separate from the Gaullist BCRA |
| SSO |
Strategic Services Operations, chief OSS officer for a theater |
| SSS |
Security Services Section, OSS SI tactical intelligence teams attached to the 7th Army Force 163 |
| SSU |
Strategic Services Unit |
| S&T |
Schools and Training Branch, OSS |
| Stallion |
OSS agent in Lebanon and Syria |
| Stork |
Gerhard Van Arkel |
| Squirrel |
OSS agent in Syria |
| Sunrise |
Series of secret negotiations conducted in March 1945 in Switzerland between representatives of Nazi Germany and the Western Allies to arrange a local surrender of German forces in northern Italy |
| Sussex Mission |
Combined OSS-MI6-French operations in France |
| SWPA |
South-West Pacific Area |
| T |
|---|
| Ted |
Eduard Schulte |
| Teton |
OSS agent in the Belgian Congo |
| T-Forces |
Target-Forces developed under SHAEF G-2 for the exploitation of enemy material and documents |
| Toledo |
Indicator for messages dealing with chemical and biological warfare intelligence |
| Tompus |
Baron Anthony Radvanssky |
| Top |
Zurich, Switzerland |
| U |
|---|
| ULTRA |
Designation adopted by British Military Intelligence for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. Ultra eventually became the standard designation among the western Allies for all such intelligence. |
| Uncolored |
Kappa indicator for Denmark |
| UNRRA |
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency |
| USFETO |
United States Forces European Theater of Organization |
| USTRAVIC |
Indicator for and recipient of many OSS messages in London |
| V |
|---|
| Varlin Mission |
London SI/Labor Desk mission to France in 1944 |
| Vessel |
Indicator for a series of reports from a source (now regarded as probably spurious) in the Vatican |
| VP |
Visual Presentation Branch, OSS |
| W |
|---|
| Waldo |
Kappa indicator for a German consul |
| Wally |
Vaclav Hradecky, Czech radio operator who assisted the OSS in Operation Sunrise |
| WD |
War Department, US |
| Werewolves |
Nazi organization trained to wage guerilla warfare after the defeat to German military forces |
| Wood, George |
Fritz Kolbe |
| Wood Traffic |
Material received from George Wood, and related messages |
| WRB |
War Refugee Board |
| X |
|---|
| X-2 |
Counter-Intelligence Branch, OSS |
| Z |
|---|
| Zulu |
The British |
| # |
|---|
| 105 |
Colonel David K.E. Bruce |
| 106 |
Colonel G. Edward Buxton |
| 109 |
William J. Donovan |
| 110 |
Allen W. Dulles |
| 154 |
Whitney H. Shepardson |
| 284 |
Max Shoop |
| 300 |
Colonel Ellery Huntington |
| 304 |
George Pratt |
| 305 |
Arthur Goldberg |
| 334 |
William A. Eddy |
| 339 |
Gerhard van Arkel |
| 452 |
Robert D. Murphy |
| 476 |
Geo von Schulze Gaevernitz |
| 488 |
Dr. Carl Jung |
| 511 |
Swiss Intelligence Service |
| 512 |
Hans Bernd Gisevius |
| 518 |
Marcel Pilet-Golaz |
| 520 |
Brig. General Bernwell Legge |
| 521 |
British intelligence in Switzerland |
| 523 |
Henry Hyde |
| 621 |
Head of British SIS in Switzerland |
| 643 |
Eduard Schulte |
| 644 |
Thomas H. McKittrick |
| 645 |
British SOE in Switzerland |
| 659 |
Admiral Wilhelm Canaris |
| 660 |
Adriano Olivetti |
| 674 |
Fritz Kolbe (George Wood), also assigned number 805 |
| 678 |
Gerald Mayer |
| 760 |
Colonel Edward J.F. Glavin |
| 805 |
Fritz Kolbe (George Wood), also assigned number 674 |
| 827 |
Professor Paul Scherrer |
| 6th AG Detachment |
OSS unit attached to the 6th Army Group |
| Detachment 101 |
India-Burma, based in Assam (India) and advanced to points in Burma |
| Detachment 202 |
China, Kunming |
| Detachment 203 |
China, Chungking, SACO |
| Detachment 205 |
China, Chengtu |
| Detachment 303 |
India, New Delhi |
| Detachment 404 |
Ceylon, Kandy |
| Detachment 505 |
India, Calcutta |
| SF Detachment 10 |
Attached to the 1st Army |
| SF Detachment 11 |
Attached to the 3rd Army |
| SF Detachment 12 |
Attached to the 12th Army Group |
| SF Detachment 13 |
Attached to the 9th Army |
| 31st Special Counterintelligence (SCI) Unit |
Served in France beginning with the Normandy landings |
| 69th Special Counterintelligence (SCI) Unit |
Served in France beginning with the Normandy landings |
| 2671st Battalion |
Company A, Italian Operations |
| 2671st Battalion |
Company B, French Operations |
| 2671st Battalion |
Company C, Balkan Operations |
| 2671st Battalion |
Company D, attached to 2677th Regiment |
| 2677th Regiment |
Company A, OG Operations |
| 2677th Regiment |
Company B, French Operations |
| 2677th Regiment |
Company C, Balkan Operations |
| 2677th Regiment |
Company D, Italian Operations |
