Spy Agencies With Top Secret Code Names, Ranked

Even spies need Creative Directors

10. U.S. Department of Defense — Operation Eagle Claw, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Bad Photoshop Art of Eagles Crying Superimposed on the World Trade Center

9. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — MKULTRA/MKSEARCH, Operation Gladio, Operation Bloodstone, ORTSAC, HTLINGUAL, ODOPAL, WASHTUB, Operation Hollywood

8. Politico—Politico

7. The three dozen emails per day since 2007 from President Obama (Subject: “Hey”)

6. Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) — Tempora, Closed-circuit television

5. Fictional UK Television Show Spooks — Ottawa Bravo, Sugarhorse, Tiresias, Rain From Heaven

4. Mossad — Operation Wrath of God

3. Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, East Germany)— Top Secret Document 0008-6/86 (Offiziere im besonderen Einsatz), Zersetzung

2. 1995 film Hackers — Zero Cool, Lord Nikon, Acid Burn, Phantom Phreak, Cereal Killer, The Plague, Da Vinci, The Gibson

1. National Security Agency (NSA) — EgotisticalGiraffe, PRISM, DISHFIRE, ThinThread, FASCIA, iOS 7, MICHIGAN, WEBCANDID

“EgotisticalJulianAssange” would’ve been my personal favorite.