Thread by @jeff_kaye

CIA programs you likely never heard of... a thread! 🧵

1) Project Redsox involved the illegal return of defectors & emigres to the USSR as agents. AEACRE set up a Domestic Ops Base for the interrogation, assessment, training & prep for infiltrating such agents into the USSR.
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"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. Tscherim Soobzokov associated with Project."
All programs/quotes from Nat'l Archives document:

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QRDYNAMIC/QRPLUMB superceded Project AERODYNAMIC & supported the Ukrainian émigrés of ZP/UHVR (Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council) w/ a NY publishing arm, Prolog Research Corp (QRTENURE, AETENURE), & in Munich, the Ukrainian Society for Foreign Studies (QRTERRACE, AETERRACE)👇

"AEBLOSSOM provided training for selected projects dealing w/ Latvia. Rudolf Kocins, Juris Spade considered for possible use on Project."

"AEGEAN (formerly CAPSTAN) provided FI (foreign intel) from the Baltic States & USSR using support bases developed in the Lithuanian SSR"
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"OBDURATE (formerly OBSTACLE, Plan CHARITY) (1954-56), incorporated into OBLONG in 1956, exploited the intelligence potential of a significant Albanian émigré group in Rome (Balli Kombetar). Xhaver Deva associated with Project." 👇

QKACTIVE (1951-71) operating thru a CIA cover as American Committee for the Liberation of the People of the USSR, conducted "overt anti-Soviet activities to weaken the Soviet regime & thereby reduce its threat to world security through radio broadcasts (RFE and Radio Liberty)"
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GROUNDHOG was cryptonym for the POND org headed by John V. Grombach. POND was codename at State Dept for an intel op founded jointly by War & State Dept in WW2. A Foreign Service Ofc in each US Embassy (in countries covered by POND) was POND officer & provided w/ secret funds
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"QKBROIL (1951-54)...superceded by Proj SHELLFIRE... was a program to encourage the Rumanian people to resist communism; establish a clandestine underground in Rumania to hamper Soviet/satellite military ops &... undermine [Rumania's] political, economic & military structure" 👇

"AESAURUS/AENOBLE... operation (1950-61) maintained communications w/ agents of Nat'l Alliance of Russian Solidarists (Narodno Trudovoi Soyuz or NTS)...founded in 1930s by Russian emigres w/ extreme rightest & anti-Semitic views & collaborated closely with the Nazis in Russia" 👇

"Project ALCATRAZ involved penetration of Communist Party of Germany. Hildegard Beetz associated with Project. Herbert Von Strempel, Kuno Wirsich considered for possible use by OSS/SSU/CIG [predecessors to CIA] on Project."
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BECRIPPLE Project (1954-60) provided Polish ops run from Berlin & other Stations/Bases with support assets such as a secure safehouse on the economy; garage for a German plated vehicle; an agent/cutout for obtaining credit investigations on persons of operational interest...."
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"BELLADONNA involved collection of foreign intel on USSR & TRIDENT involved collection of counterintelligence on USSR thru Ukrainian emigre activities & personalities.... Ivan Hrinioch, Michael Korzhan, Mykola Lebed, Yury Lopatinsky, Myron Matviyeyko associated w/ Projects"
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"OBOPUS... was initially a joint US-British covert action program designed to overthrow Soviet dominated regime of Enver Hoxha in Albania & evolved into establishing & exploiting Nat'l Committee for Free Albania, propaganda...infiltration agents & economic warfare."
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"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."
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"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."[continued next tweet...] 👇

"These projects provided intelligence & operational data from Baltic countries through radio broadcasts, mailing operations, liaison with emigre organizations, political & psychological (PP) briefings for legal travelers & exploitation of other media such as demonstrations."
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