Code name

A code name or cryptonym is a word or name used clandestinely to refer to another name or word. Codenames are often used for military purposes, or in espionage. They are also used in business, for example as the names of confidential projects.

German code names

Ewen Montagu, a British intelligence officer, discloses in Beyond Top Secret Ultra that during World War II, Nazi Germany habitually used incredibly poor codenames which frequently openly revealed or strongly hinted at their content.

Related Topics:
Ewen Montagu - World War II - Nazi Germany

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List of poor German code names:

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• Golfplatz (German: Golfcourse) ? England
• Samland ? The United States (From Uncle Sam)
• Heimdall (A God whose power was "to see for a hundred miles") ? long range radar.
• Wotan (one-eyed God) ? Based on nothing more than this and the knowledge it was a radar system, R.V. Jones assumed that it used a single beam and from that determined the system it would have to use. The guess was exactly correct. A counter-system was quickly created which made Wotan useless.
• Operation Seelöwe (Sealion) ? Plans to invade Britain (Britains' Coat of Arms has sealions on it).
• Operation Barbarossa (Frederick Barbarossa who went east on a crusade) ? Plans to go east and invade the Soviet Union.