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DVR

svetlana — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:04:17 +0000

Abbreviation for the Russian name of the Far Eastern Republic (Dal’nevostochnaia Respublica) – a short-lived “buffer” state, which existed in the Russian Far East from late March 1920 to late November 1922, when it was absorbed into the RSFSR. With capital in Verkhneudinsk and later in Chita, it included vast regions of Baikal, Amur, Maritime Region, Sakhalin and the neutral zone of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Frankly described in the Soviet records of the period as “a buffer for international consumption,” it was created with the purpose to avoid direct military confrontation with Japan, which at the time occupied large parts of the Russian Far East, and to achive withdrawal of the Japanese military forces by political means. Although under political control of Moscow, the DVR was a democratic republic with center and right-wing socialist parties sharing the government with the Bolsheviks, private property and democratic laws. However, after the Japanese withdrawal of its forces from the Russian Far East, the DVR was immediately absorbed into the RSFSR and subjected to enforced “sovietization.”

Street name

svetlana — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:25:02 +0000

A Western intelligence professional jargon for a cover name used by an officer, an agent-group leader or a courier in their day-to-day communication (in the company of assets or contacts of an intelligence service.) Usually, a common first name. In Russian, a street name would be designated by a broad term, “klichka” (cover name.)

A “street name” should not be confused with an operational pseudonym – a cover name used primarily in the ciphered cable traffic. As a rule, assets and contacts do not know their operational pseudonyms, nor operational pseudonyms of their handlers and couriers, whom they usually know only as Karl, Bill, Alex, Sam, and not by true name or even an alias.

Operational pseudonym [communications cover name]

svetlana — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:18:49 +0000

A Russian tradecraft term [“operativnyi psevdonim”] for a cover name assigned to intelligence officers, agents, valued contacts and sometimes to prominent figures for the purpose of operational correspondence. As a rule, assets and contacts do not know their operational pseudonyms, or the pseudonyms of their case officers, group leaders and couriers. In the terminology of the (US) National Security Agency (NSA), it is a “communications cover name.)

An operational pseudonym should not be confused with a “street name” – a cover name used by an officer, an agent-group leader or a courier in the company of assets or contacts of an intelligence service.

Alias

svetlana — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:15:02 +0000

In intelligence, an alias stands for a full name used by an intelligence officer/agent in his/her cover identity.

Communist Party of America (CPA)

svetlana — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:56:21 +0000

One of the two Communist parties that were organized in 1919 by the members of the left wing section of the Socialist Party of America.

The Founding Convention of CPA that took place in Chicago, IL on September 1 – 7, 1919 drafted and approved a Constitution and a Program, as well as elected a Central Executive Committee of 15 and an Executive Secretary. ¹

“The (old) Communist Party of America (CPA)”, http://www.marxisthistory.org/subject/usa/eam/ ↩

Thomas Committee

svetlana — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:54:26 +0000

A common name for the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in 1947-1948, after the name of its chairman, John Parnell Thomas.

Dies Committee

svetlana — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:33:40 +0000

A common nickname for the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) from 1938 to 1944. The name was derived from that of the committee’s chairman, Martin Dies Jr., a Texas politician and Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Established as a special investigating committee of the House of Representatives, the Dies Committee was originally supposed to focus chiefly on Nazi and Ku Klux Klan activities in the United States. However, Dies and his committee became known for their fixation on ferreting out Communists in U.S. government agencies.

Cominform

svetlana — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:52:17 +0000

A common name for the Communist Information Bureau, an international Communist organization that existed from 1947 to 1956. The official name of the organization was the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers’ Parties. The Cominform was headquartered first in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and then, from 1948 on, in Bucharest, Rumania. It published a newspaper called For Lasting Peace, for People’s Democracy! The Cominform was dissolved in April 1956, following a decision by the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Revcom [Revcoms]

svetlana — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:30:55 +0000

Commonly known name of the temporary Soviet government emergency agencies, or Revolutionary Committees [Revolutsionnye komitety], that existed during the Russian Civil War of 1918-1922 and were vested with all military and civil authority. There was a hierarchy of republican, regional and local revcoms. These agencies were mostly abolished in the European part of Soviet Russia in 1920 but continued until between 1922 and 1925 in the Caucasus, Siberia, the Russian Far East and some Central Asian regions. In some parts of Chechnya, revcoms were even organized after 1925.

Legal

svetlana — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:29:44 +0000

Intelligence term designating:

1) intelligence operations carried out under a diplomatic, journalistic or any other legal cover;

2) an intelligence agent operating under the cover of a diplomat, journalist, trade representative or any other legal cover.