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Name the CIA operation - Statistics
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Answer Stats
| Year | Operation Name | Contents of the operation | % Correct |
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| 1953-75 | MKUltra | Human experimentation program were the CIA tried to figure out how “communist brainwashing” was working by dosing people with LSD | 85%
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| 1945-1949 | Paperclip | Operation to get 1,600 Nazi Scientists into the USA to help with US science in the future cold war | 69%
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| 1953 | Ajax | The overthrow of the Iranian government of Mohammad Mossadegh and replacement with the Shah | 31%
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| 1975-1983 | Condor | Secret operation to aid right wing Latin American dictatorships with their program of torture and disappearances of government dissidents | 31%
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| 1962 | Northwoods | Proposed false flag attempt which would have been the US’s casus belli to invade Cuba | 31%
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| 1952-1990 | Gladio | Arming of far-right anti-communist groups to act as a stay-behind army in case of a Soviet invasion | 23%
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| 1979-1992 | Cyclone | Secret operation to give weapons to the mujahideen following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan | 15%
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| 1963 | Mockingbird | The use of wiretapping against journalists to find out about who was leaking information | 15%
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| 1968-1972 | Phoenix | Operation to get rid of Viet Cong cells via infiltration, torture, capture, counter-terrorism and torture | 15%
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| 1957-1969 | Barnum | The airlifting of CIA agents, military supplies, and support equipment into Tibet to fight against the Chinese government | 8%
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| 1964 | Brother Sam | Use of the US military to support the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état, overthrowing the government of João Goulart in a “Brotherly” move | 8%
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| 1967-1974 | Chaos | Surveillance operation on anti-Vietnam war activists | 8%
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| 1967-1968 | Cherry | Operation to support anti-monarchist groups in Cambodia to fight against Sihanouk who was a neutral leader in the Vietnam war | 8%
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| 1970-1973 | FUBelt | Operation to try and sabotage the election campaign of Chilean socialist Salvador Allende and later support for a coup against his government | 8%
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| 1954-56 | Gold | Plan to dig a tunnel underneath East Berlin to try and spy on the Soviets | 8%
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| 1975-76 | IAFeature | Operation which gave aid to Jonas Savimbi in Angola and fight against the influence of the MPLA | 8%
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| 1961 | Mongoose | Campaign to destabilise Cuba under Castro through terrorist acts against the Cuban people and government | 8%
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| 1952 | PBFortune | The planning of the removal of democratic leader Jacobo Arbenz, two years before the coup | 8%
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| 1954 | PBSuccess | The overthrow of democratically elected leader Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala through a military coup | 8%
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| 1960-1962 | Peter Pan | Operation to take 14,000 Cuban children to the United States over fears that the communist party would take custody over the parent’s children. The Castro government didn’t end up doing this. | 8%
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| 1951-1954 | QKBroil | Operation of psychological warfare against the communist government in Romania | 8%
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| 1977-1995 | Stargate | Operation to investigate Psychic phenomena which also has the same name as a sci-fi show | 8%
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| 1963 | Tilt | Attempted operation to get two Soviet defectors from Cuba to the USA which failed with both agents going missing | 8%
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| 2012-2017 | Timber Sycamore | Operation to arm Syrian rebels fighting against Bashar Al-Assad. Some of these weapons would end up being used by ISIS | 8%
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| 1949-1954 | Valuable | Operation to get rid of the Communist government of Albania lead by Enver Hoxha | 8%
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| 1954 | Washtub | Operation to plant Soviet guns in Nicaragua to prove that Jacobo Arbenz, president of Guatemala, was pro-Soviet | 8%
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| 1961 | Zapata | An attempted invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles which is better known as “Bay of pigs” | 8%
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| 1961 | Zrrifle | Campaign to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro | 8%
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