B-3 DUST POWER

B-3 DUST POWDER - (CIA) Powdered tear gas in plastic squeeze bottle. Used for crowd dispersal and self defence.

BACKSCATTER GAUGE

BACKSCATTER GAUGE - (CIA) Gamma ray device used to measure thickness of walls when drilling for covert microphone/device placement to avoid compromise from unexpected breakthrough. Adapted from industrial technology used to measure thickness of paper. 1970's.

BILLIARD BALL

BILLIARD BALL - (KGB) Codename for CIA CKTAW operation.

BUSTER

BUSTER - (CIA) SRAC burst transmitter with 1,000ft range, 1,500 character messaging with Cyrillic keyboard. Mid 1970's.

BOURBON

BOURBON - (CIA) One of the Codenames for Dmitri Fedorovich Polyakov, CIA agent from 1961 to 1980. Betrayed and executed 1990. See also GTBEEP TOPHAT DONALD

BLACK SHIELD

BLACK SHIELD - (CIA) A-12 Reconnaissance overflights of North Vietnam, North Korea beginning 31 May 1967.

BLACKBIRD

BLACKBIRD - (Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, USA) the USAF's SR-71 Reconnaissance aircraft, also known as 'HABU' was developed from the A-12 OXCART. Flown from 1964 to 1998, the SR-71 also served with NASA as a research platform until 1999. Cruising at over Mach 3.2, the BLACKBIRD set a World speed record which stands to this day.

ABOVE: An SR-71 refuelling in-flight

BELOW: The SR-71's incredible speed record runs

BIGOT list

BIGOT list - (CIA) Need to know access lists. name derived from WWII flight passes to Gibraltar - stamped 'TOGIB'. Such passes were reserved for important officials and established an elite air.

BUSINESSMAN/WOMAN

BUSINESSMAN/WOMAN - Term for an AGENT motivated solely by financial gain.

BARIUM MEAL/CANARY TRAP

BARIUM MEAL/CANARY TRAP

Names for a specific COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE method. If an Agency suspects it has a leak, it distributes slightly different versions of a document or information. When the leaked version surfaces, the culprit is identified; i.e.; a Document with a misprinted date surfaces. 'X' was given the Document with the misprinted date, therefore 'X' was the leak.

BRIGHT LIGHT

BRIGHT LIGHT - USA/CIA

A secret interrogation centre in Bucharest, Roumania. 'High Value' captives were held in cells mounted on springs to keep them unbalanced and subjected to ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES.

BLACK SITE

BLACK SITE - (MAINLY USA)

Any secret facility denied by the host government. Black Sites include covert military bases, deniable training facilities and, notoriously secret prisons used for EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION. One example of a Black Site is BRIGHT LIGHT.

BND

BND - WEST GERMANY/GERMANY
The Bundesnachrichtendienst is Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, gathering Military and Civil intelligence Worldwide. Formed from the Postwar 'Gehlen Organisation'.