covert operation
operation of an intelligence agency or the military that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor
CIA activities in Laos
overview about the CIA activities in Laos
Project Sapphire
United States covert operation regarding nuclear materials
Operation Bernhard
exercise by the Nazis to forge British bank notes
sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
1985 covert attack by French foreign intelligence service on a Greenpeace ship
Project Eldest Son
Covert US program during Vietnam War
Operation Ghost Stories
FBI operation leading to arrest of ten Russian spies in 2010
Operation Condor
series of anti-communist, anti-dissent campaigns in South America
Operation Merlin
covert operation
Operation Freakout
campaign by Scientology to silence a critic
Operation Diamond
Israeli MiG-21 acquisition operation
state-sponsored terrorism
government support of violent, typically non-state actors engaged in terrorism (commonly: terrorists), which act on the territory of the state itself or in another country
Operation Valuable
Western covert paramilitary operation
Operation Tupac
alleged codename of a Pakistani ISI contingency program
CIA Tibetan program
anti-China covert operation
Tamara
WWII covert operation in the Caucasus
American cover-up of Japanese war crimes
after Japan's surrender in World War II, the United States gave immunity from prosecution to members of Unit 731 and withheld relevant information in exchange for their human experimentation research
Operation Braddock
Secret service measure
Operation Night Harvest
joint CIA-USAF operation against IRIAF during the 1980s
Operation Stella Polaris
secret evacuation of Finnish signals intelligence establishment to Sweden, 1944
Operation WASHTUB
covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to plant a phony Soviet arms cache in Nicaragua
Operation Algeciras
Argentine plan to sabotage a British warship in Gibraltar
black operation
type of covert operation by a government agency, military or paramilitary organization, involving enhanced secrecy due to its sensitive nature. This may be caused by a partly illegal or unethical nature of the operation.
Cloven
Cold War project
Capture of Adolf Eichmann
covert operation by the Israeli Mossad
Project Hotfoot
USA military training mission of the Royal Lao Army
Operation Fox Hunt
Chinese government covert global operation
foreign electoral intervention
activity by one nation to interfere in the electoral process of another sovereign nation
Operation Vermin
forced resettlement in the GDR, 1952/61
Project ARTICHOKE
former CIA project
Lillehammer affair
failed but fatal assassination attempt carried out by Mossad agents in Lillehammer, Norway
Operation Wrath of God
covert operation
false flag
act with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on a second party
Operation Paperclip
secret program of the US to bring German scientists, including former Nazis, into the US to work for the US government
Venlo Incident
German capture of British intelligence agents in 1939
Operation Midnight Climax
sub-project of Project MKULTRA
Operation Damocles
Israeli covert operation in Egypt
Operation Bloodstone
CIA recruitment program for former Nazi officers and diplomats who could be used in the covert intelligence operations against the Soviet Union
Operation Bayonet
multinational law enforcement operation culminating in 2017