REDBOOK

REDBOOK - (QDL/CIA) Annually-issued passport examination manual showing customs officers how to examine passports for signs of tampering and forgery. Discontinued 1992.

RS-6

RS-6 (CIA) Radio transmitter operating on 3-15 mhz with 3,000 mile range (Continuous Wave/Morse) 1960's. See link below for description and photographs;

http://cryptomuseum.com/spy/rs6/index.htm

REINDEER

REINDEER - (KGB) KGB codename for the THING

ROBERT

ROBERT (KGB) codename for CIA traitor Edward Lee Howard. Betrayed CKTAW to the KGB. Deceased 2002 Moscow.

PROJECT RAINBOW

PROJECT RAINBOW (CIA) Unsuccessful program to reduce the Radar Cross-Section of the U-2 Spy Plane. U-2's had been radar-visible since the first overflights of the Soviet Union and various methods were trialled before the project was absorbed into PROJECT GUSTO, partially to reduce the numbers of indoctrinated personnel. 

ROCKEX

ROCKEX
Secure one-time tape cipher machine, invented during WWII and in use until the 1980's. Inventor Benjamin deForest Bayly.

RADIATIONS OPERATIONS COMMITTEE

RADIATIONS OPERATIONS COMMITTEE - MI5/MI6/GCHQ - 1960
Formed to co-ordinate RAFTER/ENGULF (See INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS OF THE UK PAGE) intelligence.

REGISTRY, THE

THE REGISTRY - (UK/MI5) - POST WWII

The archives of every contact, operator, agent and operation. Archives pre - 1940 were badly damaged in a firebombing raid on Wormwood Scrubs prison, where they (and staff) had been placed for safekeeping. Work to conserve the fire and water damaged archives was still being undertaken in the 1960's.