Code name

The code name is an expression which makes it possible to indicate a word, a sentence, a concept, an operation in a concise way, nonambiguous and confidential. Code names are mainly employed in the Armée, the Secret services, the Industrie or the Commerce to guarantee the Secret.

A code name can have a consonance without any connection with what it indicates. Thus, the procedure would have liked that the unloading of June 6th, 1944 has as a name operation Mothball (swell of naphthaline). Winston Churchill intervened to make re-elect the operation Overlord (Suzerain).

The military operations often receive publicly revealed code names. These names can also refer explicitly so that the operation concerns, but it can be a question of allegory S or Propagande:

  • the Opération Gomorrhe indicates the strategic Bombardement of Hamburg by the Alliés during the Second world war (1943).:
  • the Opération storm of the desert indicates the release of the Kuwait and the invasion of the Iraq by a Coalition directed by the the United States at the time of the First war of the Gulf (1991);
  • the attack on the Afghanistan in 2001 was initially named operation unbounded Justice , but this name caused such an outcry that the operation was famous immutable Liberté .
  • the American invasion of the Iraq in 2003 was baptized Opération release of Iraq , name then changed into Liberté of Iraq .

Industrial products can also have publicly known code names. Apple allotted for example to the major updates of Mac OS of the musical terms like code names (7.6 " Harmony" , 8.0 " Tempo" , 8.5 " Allegro" …). With Mac OS X, it is the name of a Félin which is allotted to each major update (10.1 " Puma" , 10.2 " Jaguar" …).

From an internal point of view to a company or administration, the same project can be indicated under several different code names, to avoid cross-checkings of information on behalf of a spy, and to better identify the source of information flights. In the data base Operation Mirage of the series Valiant Michel, the same car is named Jeanne for the team of test, LISA for the research and development, Utopia for the financial department, Zeno for marketing, and only known Mirage of the Vaillant brothers.

One calls also code name the name which a Super-héros as tel. Spider-Man employs is regarded as a code name: it is the name which is given to the public, and which remains employed to speak about him as superman, even if its name of civil statue ceased being a secrecy.

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