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Here is a reference resource for all those spy codes and covert talk.
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- L-PILL -
a poison pill used by operatives to commit suicide.
- L5 – 4096 bit encryption algorithm
- LADY – honey pot.
- LAKAM – one of Israel's
intelligence agencies (Ministry of Defense).
- LEGEND – the faked biography of a
deep-cover agent.
- LETTERBOX – a person who is acting
as a go-between. Also see CUT-OUT.
- LINK DIAGRAM – connections being
analyzed in a complex police investigation or counterespionage case. See
problem-solving matrix.
- LLB – an acronym for live-letter
box, an address used to receive communication to be forwarded to an
intelligence agency. See also DLB.
- LOOK-A-LIKES – decoys used to
confuse hit squads and surveillance teams.
- LSD – an acronym for d-lysergic
acid diethylanide, a hallucinatory drug discovered in 1943 by Dr. Albert
Hofmann, a researcher at Switzerland's Sandoz corporation, a pharmaceutical
manufacturer. Subsequently monopolized by the CIA for its MKULTRA project
that developed methods for secretly controlling people. Still used today by
numerous intelligence agencies and security services for the following
functions – 1. disturbance of memory; 2. discrediting by aberrant
behavior; 3. eliciting of information; 4. creation of dependence; 5.
suggestibility. At the CIA's request, in 1954 Eli Lilly & Company
developed a method for manufacturing LSD from publicly available chemicals.
The CIA's bungling of MKULTRA allowed the drug to escape from the lab, where
the CIA lost control of it. LSD subsequently ruined two generations of young
Americans. No CIA officer or contractor was ever reprimanded or punished.
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