ABLE: The first [Bikini] atomic test codenamed Able ... It would be the first atomic bomb to explode in peacetime. Ghost Fleet of Bikini Atoll
ABLE ARCHER: Able Archer was a war game designed to test communications. Out in the forest of West Germany. 1983: The Brink of Apocalypse, Channel 4 2008
AJAX: Operation Ajax was a new approach to energy security, one in which political treachery was an acceptable tactic in pursuit of oil. Iain Stewart, Planet Oil: The Treasure that Conquered the World II, BBC 2015
A secret CIA plot to overthrow leftist prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh codenamed the Old Bugger. The Shah would be maintained on the throne. Secrets of War s5e1: Cold War: Eisenhower’s Operatives, History 1999
ANAGRAM: Operation Anagram was set up in 2006 to examine the life of convicted murderer Peter Tobin. Real Crime with Mark Austin s9e1: Tobin: Portrait of a Serial Killer, ITV 2010
ANDERSON: In the summer of 1989 the British Transport Police launched a series of raids to arrest Bristol’s most infamous graffiti artists. The raids were the culmination of Operation Anderson, a year-long investigation into Barton Hill. The biggest anti-Graffiti operation ever to be undertaken in the UK. Banksy & the Rise of Outlaw Art, Sky Arts 2021
ANTHROPOID: The operation to assassinate Heydrich is codenamed Anthropoid. Infamous Assassinations: Reinhard Heydrich, Yesterday 2007
AQUARIUS is a project which compiled the history of alien presence and their interaction with homo sapiens upon this planet for the last 25,000 years and culminating with the Basque people who live in the mountainous country on the border of France and Spain and the Syrians. Bill Cooper, Operation Majority, material released 31st May 1996
AQUATONE: Area 51 was created for one top secret project called Aquatone ... The men were testing one of the most important weapons of the Cold War: the US spy plane. Area 51: I Was There, Sky 2011
AURORA: Recently a series of sonic booms were heard exploding across California and Nevada. Something was in the sky that could be heard and felt but not seen. Some informed observers, and I’m one of them, believe it was an aircraft travelling at several thousand miles per hour, a secret project known as Aurora. Nick Cook, Are UFOs Real? 2/2
BAKER: The first hunter team: codenamed Baker the team reported to the SAS, a top-secret group working for British Intelligence. Its mission: to avenge Nazi atrocities against British personnel and secret agents. Master Spies s1e3: The Deadly Game, Discovery 1999
BANNER: ‘Operation Banner’ [Northern Ireland] remains the longest single operation in the history of the British Army … ‘The whole community was our enemy. They hated us. They hated us with a vengeance. That became very apparent very very quickly. I wasn’t prepared for that level of hatred.’ Squaddies on the Front Line, caption & soldier Michael Pike 1st Battalion, Scots Guards 1980-1985, BBC 2019
BANSHEE: She [Blanco] had been wanted in New York for more than a decade since Operation Banshee. America’s Most Evil s1e3: The Godmother, expert, Bio 2012
BARBAROSSA: Even while Molotov was still in Berlin, Hitler ordered his Generals to plan an attack on Russia for May 15th 1941. They responded with a detailed scheme which he now named Operation Barbarossa. The World at War 5/26: Barbarossa, ITV 1973
BLACK RAIN: ‘Operation Black rain started in 2005. We used informants – the goal was to get to the top.’ Gangsters: America’s Most Evil s2e4: Ruben Cavazos, rozzer
The decade’s long feud between the two California-based motorcycle gangs [Mongols v Hell's Angels] had escalated in recent months ... The two motorcycle gangs went to war. ibid.
BLUEBOOK: Project Bluebook was the codename for the US Air Force’s controversial UFO investigation unit. Your World is Changing
The Air Force’s commitment to act on the UFO problem would result in one of the biggest military investigations in military history. The Air Force, which had secretly been investigating UFOs since 1947, were forced to set up an open Inquiry. Called Project Bluebook it promised to investigate each separate sighting report that was filed by the general public. Nick Cook, Are UFOs Real? 1/2
In 1969 after considering thousands of reports Project Bluebook was closed. The conclusion: there was nothing worth further study. Horizon: The Case of the UFOs, BBC 1982
In 1969 Grudge was terminated and published under the more appealing name of Blue Book. PSTV.tv – UFOs & The Military Elite
BLUE STREAK: A group of elite rocket scientists were tasked with developing Britain’s own nuclear missile. Tucked away from prying eyes in the very north of England this top-secret project was called Blue Streak. Blue Streak drained millions from the public purse. A Very British Deterrent, BBC 2018
BODYGUARD: The codename for the great D-Day deception. Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, Ben MacIntyre, author Double Cross, BBC 2012
The biggest deception campaign in military history was conceived: Operation Bodyguard. At the head of the mission, the London Controlling Section, an ultra-secret organisation of high-ranking army and secret-service personnel. Spies of War II: The D-Day Spies, History 2019
BRAVO: By 1958 the United States had tested twenty-three nuclear bombs on Bikini, climaxing with the Hydrogen bomb test – codenamed Bravo. Ghost Fleet of Bikini Atoll
They would now test prototypes of an H-bomb, small enough to be dropped from a plane. The first test codenamed Bravo took place on Bikini Atoll in March 1954. The American Experience II: Race For the Superbomb, PBS 1988