Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Soviet officer inside the tunnel. Operation Gold (also known as Operation Stopwatch by the British) was a joint operation conducted by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1950s to tap into landline communication of the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin using a tunnel into the Soviet-occupied zone.
Anaconda (2002–2008) — French Army operation against illegal gold mining in French Guiana. Tassergal (2007) — French Army operation against illegal fishing in French Guiana waters. Harpie (2008–2016) — French Army operation against illegal gold mining. Successor of Opération Anaconda.
Joint Task Force (JTF) Gold [1] [2] was the Australian Defence Force unit formed to provide security and general support for the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Paralympics which was held in Sydney, Australia. JTF Gold had a strength of over 4000 personnel drawn from all three services and was commanded by Brigadier Gary Byles. The JTF ...
Operation Golden Flow is an unofficial term that was coined during the Nixon era for the mandatory drug testing of all military service members returning from Vietnam, a program that was headed by Jerome Jaffe, head of the White House drug office.
The operation ended only when Austria regained full sovereignty in 1955. In 1951, when the American CIA planned a similar operation in Berlin , the British revealed Operation Silver to the Americans and the two countries then jointly ran Operation Gold , an operation to tap into landline communication of the Soviet Army headquarters in Berlin ...
Operation Golden Pheasant was an emergency deployment of U.S. troops to Honduras in 1988, in response to Nicaraguan attacks on Contra logistics in Honduras. History [ edit ]
The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program initiated during World War II by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service and later absorbed by the National Security Agency (NSA), that ran from February 1, 1943, until October 1, 1980. [1]
'Operation Wrath of God') was a covert operation directed by Mossad to assassinate individuals they accused of being involved in the 1972 Munich massacre. The targets were members of the Palestinian armed militant group Black September and operatives of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).