Research Aid: Cryptonyms and Terms in Declassified CIA Files Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Disclosure Acts Term Definition A-287 Cryptonym for Josef Stigler. Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN). Stanislaw Stankiewicz was a member of ABN the ABN Central Committee. AECAMBISTA-4, CAMBISTA-4 (cryptonyms). Associated with AEQUOR and AEDEPOT/AEREADY Projects. See also AMCOMLIB, BNR, CHAURUS, Abramtchik, Mikola SONR. ACEN Assembly of Captive European Nations (ACEN). ACKERMAN Gehlen Organization alias for Ebrulf Zuber. ACROBAT Cryptonym for Yury Lopatinsky. Adenauer, Konrad UPTHRUST (cryptonym). AEABYSS Project involved information collected on Salzgitter Industriebau AEABYSS GmbH. Walter Mehnert associated with Project. AEABYSS-1 Cryptonym for Walter Mehnert. AEACRE (1952-64) established a mechanism for the planning and conduct of REDSOX operations via a Domestic Operations Base (DOB) used for the interrogation, assessment, training, briefing, and preparation for dispatch of agents for infiltration into the USSR. Aleks Kurgvel, Tscherim Soobzokov AEACRE associated with Project. AEASTER was a program in near east areas to spot, recruit, and train Circassians and other Russian emigres and send them back into the USSR. AEASTER Tscherim Soobzokov associated with Project. AEBALCONY (1960-62) was designed to use U.S. citizens with Baltic language fluency in "mounted" and "piggy-back" legal traveler operations into Soviet- occupied Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Jouzas Brazaitis, Vilis Hazners, AEBALCONY Edgars Laipenieks associated with Project. AEFREEMAN (1953-64), which included AEBASIN/AEROOT (1953-60), AEFLAG (1955-62), and AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (1949-59)), was designed to strengthen resistance to communism and harrass the Soviet regime in the Baltic countries. AEBASIN/AEROOT supported Estonian emigres and émigré activities aganist the Estonian SSR. AEFLAG was aimed at people of the Latvian SSR. AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (formerly BGLAPIN)) targeted the Lithuanian SSR. These projects provided intelligence and operational data from Baltic countries through radio broadcasts, mailing operations, liaison with emigre organizations, political and psychological (PP) briefings for legal travelers and exploitation of other media such as demonstrations. Aleks Kurgvel, Elmar Lipping, Romulus Mandel associated with AEBASIN/AEROOT Project. Vilis Hazners associated with AEFLAG Project. Antanas Bernotas, Jouzas Brazaitis, Stasys Rastikis associated with AEPOLE Project. Alexandras Lileikis associated with AECHAMP Project. AEBASIN ILgvars Skaistlauks considered for possible use on AECHAMP Project. AEBASIN-4 Cryptonym for Elmar Lipping. AEDOGMA / AEBATH (1947-61), which supported the activities of the Principal Agent (PA), Michael Korzhan, was designed to produce CI/CE information on two Ukrainian nationalist groups in Germany; positive intelligence on other Ukrainian groups in Germany and Western Europe; information on Soviet penetration of Orthodox churches; and miscellaneous CE and other support activities beginning in 1947. In 1959, the PA was transferred to Paris to report on the efforts of the Soviet Services in emigre circles; and to act as a spotter in Soviet emigre circles for REDSKIN opportunities. The PA was not very AEBATH productive in Paris and the project was terminated in 1961. AEBATH-1 Cryptonym for Michael Korzhan. 1 June 2007 Research Aid: Cryptonyms and Terms in Declassified CIA Files Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Disclosure Acts Term Definition QRDYNAMIC/QRPLUMB (formerly AEBEEHIVE) (1970-91) superceded Project AERODYNAMIC and supported the Ukrainian émigré organization ZP / UHVR (Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council) with a New York publishing arm called Prolog Research Corporation (QRTENURE, AETENURE) and a Munich Office, Ukrainian Society for Foreign Studies (QRTERRACE, AETERRACE), publisher of the monthly journal Suchasnist. CIA terminated QRPLUMB after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1991 and provided funds to enable Prolog to transition to a privately-funded company. In 1992, Prolog's monthly Ukrainian journal Suchasnist (Contemporary Times) was successfully transitioned to a publishing company in Kiev, Ukraine and thereafter was published as a collaborative effort between Prolog and a Ukrainian group in Kiev. Ivan Hrinioch, Mykola Lebed, Yury Lopatinsky, Lyubomir Ortinskiy associated with AEBEEHIVE Project. AEBLOSSOM provided training for selected projects dealing with Latvia. AEBLOSSOM Rudolf Kocins, Juris Spade considered for possible use on Project. AEBOLSTER-1 Cryptonym for Michael Rudko. AECADILT-10 Cryptonym for Wilhelm Gruenwaldt. AECAMBARO-1 Cryptonym for Freds Launags. AECAMBARO-2 Cryptonym for Arturs Brombergs. Cryptonym for the Byelorussian National Council (BNR). Mikola Abramtchik in AECAMBISTA-1 Paris was the head of the BNR. AECAMBISTA-16 Cryptonym for Vitaut Tumash. AECAMBISTA-17 Cryptonym for Stanislaw Stankiewicz. AECAMBISTA-2 Cryptonym for Major Boris Ragula. AECAMBISTA-4 Cryptonym for Mikola Abramtchik. AECAMUSO-2 Cryptonym for Edvins Ozolins. AECANOE-3 Cryptonym for Vilis Janums. AECAPELIN-1 Cryptonym for Michael Korzhan. AECAPELIN-2 Cryptonym for Volodymyr Bohdan Slymakovsky. AECARRERA (1953-58) exploited REDCAP opportunities (collection of information on Soviets stationed abroad) arising out of the propaganda distributed by AEVIRGIL and collected positive intelligence through debriefings of East German nationals visiting the AECARRERA office in Berlin in response to AEVIRGIL materials ballooned into East Germany. Wilhelm Gruenwaldt AECARRERA associated with Project. AERODYNAMIC (formerly CARTEL, ANDROGEN, AECARTHAGE) (1949-70) refers to CIA support for ZP/UHVR (Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council), which began in 1949. CIA helped to establish in New York City the Prolog Research and Publishing Company in 1953 as ZP/UHVR's publishing and research arm. Prolog, through an affiliate in Munich, published periodicals and selected books and pamphlets which sought to exploit and increase nationalist and other dissident tendencies in the Soviet Ukraine. ZP/UHVR operational activity concentrated on propaganda and contact operations. In 1970, AERODYNAMIC was redesignated QRPLUMB. The file includes AERODYNAMIC Development and Plans (Vol. 1-8), Operations (Vol. 9-41), and Contact Reports (Vol. 42-47). Yaroslav Fedyk, Ivan Hrinioch, Mykola Lebed, Yury Lopatinsky, Lyubomir Ortinskiy associated with Project. Roman AECARTHAGE Tymewycz a clerical employee in Branch Office of Project AERODYNAMIC. Cryptonym for Ukrainian émigré organization, ZP/UHVR, Foreign AECASSOWARY-1 Representation of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council. 2 June 2007 Research Aid: Cryptonyms and Terms in Declassified CIA Files Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Disclosure Acts Term Definition AECASSOWARY-2 Cryptonym for Mykola Lebed. AECASSOWARY-27 Cryptonym for Lyubomir Ortinskiy. AECASSOWARY-3 Cryptonym for Ivan Hrinioch. AECASSOWARY-6 Cryptonym for Yaroslav Fedyk. Cryptonym for either Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) or Foreign AECAVATINA Section of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Zch/OUN). AECAVATINA-1 Cryptonym for Stefan Bandera. AECAVATINA-12 Cryptonym for Ivan Kashuba. AECAVATINA-2 Cryptonym for Yaroslav Stetsko. AECAVATINA-5 Cryptonym for Bodhan Pidhainy. Cryptonym for the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists AECAVATINA-6 (OUN-B). AEFREEMAN (1953-64), which included AEBASIN/AEROOT (1953-60), AEFLAG (1955-62), and AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (1949-59)), was designed to strengthen resistance to communism and harrass the Soviet regime in the Baltic countries. AEBASIN/AEROOT supported Estonian emigres and émigré activities aganist the Estonian SSR. AEFLAG was aimed at people of the Latvian SSR. AEPOLE (formerly AECHAMP (formerly BGLAPIN)) targeted the Lithuanian SSR. These projects provided intelligence and operational data from Baltic countries through radio broadcasts, mailing operations, liaison with emigre organizations, political and psychological (PP) briefings for legal travelers and exploitation of other media such as demonstrations. Aleks Kurgvel, Elmar Lipping, Romulus Mandel associated with AEBASIN/AEROOT Project. Vilis Hazners associated with AEFLAG Project. Antanas Bernotas, Jouzas Brazaitis, Stasys Rastikis associated with AEPOLE Project. Alexandras Lileikis associated with AECHAMP Project. ILgvars Skaistlauks considered for possible use on AECHAMP Project. See AECHAMP AEGEAN/CAPSTAN. AECHAMP-7 Cryptonym for Alexandras Lileikis. AECHEROOT Atomic energy sampling program. AECOB, approved in 1950, was a vehicle for foreign intelligence (FI) operations into and within Soviet Latvia and involved infiltration and exfiltration of black agents and the recruitment of legally resident agents in the USSR, especially Latvia. ZRLYNCH was approved in 1950 for use of the Latvian Resistance Movement, which had been formed in 1944, as a vehicle for clandestine activities within the USSR. ZRLYNCH was renewed in 1952 as a part of AECOB, which then provided both FI and political and psychological (PP) activities. AECOB / ZRLYNCH PP project was terminated in 1955. AECOB FI project was terminated in 1959. Roberts Ancans, Andrejs Apsits, Nikolajs Balodis, Arturs Brombergs, Freds Launags, Edvins Ozolins, Janis Ozolins, Janis Presnikovs, Alfreds Riekstins, Peteris Rungis, ILmars Rupners, Arturs Stankevics, Vidvuds Sveics, Voldis Viksna associated with Project. Janis AECOB Ozols considered for possible use on Project. AECOB-1