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.
WUBRINYWUBRINY included Haitian operations - but it may have been broader in scope. [status: Probable]
WUBRINY-1John Train, a member of the investment firm of Train, Cabot and Associates, New York (which may have been WUSALINE). [status: Speculative]
WUCLASSIC-88WUCLASSIC-88 was a former U.S. intelligence officer, who probably worked for a branch of the CIA in the late 1970's. His son believed that his father had a plan to assassinate Fidel Castro from his days in Florida many years before among his possessions, shortly before his death. [status: Unknown]
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.
WUSALIFYA holding corporation that includes the CIA proprietary known as WUSALINE as a subsidiary. This corporation may have been the Train, Cabot & Associates investment firm. [status: Speculative]
WUSALINEA proprietary investment and investment consulting firm. WUSALINE may have invested in a number of companies. One of them may have been Zapata Off-shore Drilling Company. George Bush was its CEO from 1956 to 1964. A proprietary corporation housed and managed by the investment firm of Train, Cabot and Associates, New York, aka WUSALIFY. [status: Speculative]
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]