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Every secret agent has a code name.
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Hill, whose code name was Dazzle, was given the highest civilian honor for bravery awarded by the U.S. Treasury Department, which the Secret Service was then a part of.
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Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2025
What To Know The CIA explored mind control techniques during the Cold War under code names MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
The university declined to say what the work was for, but two senior UNC officials confirmed last week that the code name referred to conference realignment.
—Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
For more than two years, North Carolina has secretly sunk more than $600,000 into legal bills for a project that, according to documents recently obtained by The Athletic, was known by only a code name: the Carolina Blue matter.
—Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
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Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2025
What To Know The CIA explored mind control techniques during the Cold War under code names MKULTRA, BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE.
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
The university declined to say what the work was for, but two senior UNC officials confirmed last week that the code name referred to conference realignment.
—Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
For more than two years, North Carolina has secretly sunk more than $600,000 into legal bills for a project that, according to documents recently obtained by The Athletic, was known by only a code name: the Carolina Blue matter.
—Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Code name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/code%20name. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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