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During the 1960s trend for action-adventure spy thrillers, it was a common practice for fictional spy organizations or their nemeses to employ names that were contrived acronyms. Sometimes these acronyms' expanded meanings made sense, but most of the time they were words incongruously crammed together for the mere purpose of obtaining a catchy ...
The older patches read "Sector 7" instead of "Section 7", leading some to believe this to be their original name. seaQuest DSV: TV Sector 7: Intelligence organization. They discovered the All Spark and built the Hoover Dam around it to mask the energy emitted by the Cube: Transformers: Movie Time Enforcement Commission
Agent Larabee from the 1960s spy satire/parody sitcom, Get Smart; Agent Six from Generator Rex; Agent Smith of The Matrix (franchise) Agent Vinod, from the 1977 and 2012 Indian spy films of the same name; Alec Leamas, in John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Alexander Scott, from the TV series I Spy
The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [ 1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when sensitive electronic communications were not routinely encrypted; today, the names simply serve for purposes of brevity, clarity ...
Code name. A code name, codename, call sign, or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person. Code names are often used for military purposes, or in espionage.
Theodore Alvin Hall (October 20, 1925 – November 1, 1999) was an American physicist and an atomic spy for the Soviet Union, who, during his work on United States efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II (the Manhattan Project), gave a detailed description of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, and of several processes for purifying plutonium, to Soviet intelligence.
The Nanda Devi Plutonium Mission was a joint operation by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) to spy on the nuclear developments being conducted in the Xinjiang Province of China. The agencies cooperated in October 1965 to install a nuclear-powered remote sensing station on the peak of ...
The Baroness (novels) Dick Barton. Bestiájez. Black Jack Tarr. Scorpion (Carmilla Black) Sexton Blake. Lucifer Box. Bronze Tiger. Bumblebee (Transformers)