Secret Service Code Names

PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND HIS FAMILY

  • LANCER - President John F. Kennedy
  • LACE - Jackie Kennedy (First Lady)
  • LYRIC - Caroline Kennedy
  • LARK - John F. Kennedy Jr.

VICE PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND HIS FAMILY

  • VOLUNTEER - Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson
  • VICTORIA - Lady Bird Johnson
  • VELVET - Lynda Bird Johnson
  • VENUS - Lucy Baines Johnson

ADVISERS, AIDES, AND ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS

  • FREEDOM - Dean Rusk, the Secretary of State
  • WAND - Kenny O’Donnell
  • WILLOW - Evelyn Lincoln, the President’s Personal Secretary
  • WAYSIDE - Pierre Salinger, the White House Press Secretary
  • MARKET - Dr. George Burkley, the President’s Personal Physician
  • WATCHMAN - General Chester Clifton, the President’s Military Aide
  • SILVER - Mr. Hays (Military Aides Office)
  • WARRIOR - Malcolm Kilduff
  • WING - General Godfrey McHugh, the President’s Air Force Aide
  • WITNESS - Captain Tazewell Shepard, the President’s Naval Aide
  • TIGER - Colonel James Swindal, the President’s Pilot
  • TULIP - MBGT Magan (Corky), the Presidential Pilot OFC
  • VIGILANT - Walter Jenkins
  • TOURIST - Major Brown (Military Aides Office)

PLACES

  • CASTLE- The White House (Mansion plus East and West Wing)
  • CROWN - White House (Executive Mansion)
  • CENTRAL - The Old Executive Office Building
  • CHARCOAL / BASE - President’s Temporary Residence
  • CABIN - Kennedy Compound at Hyannis Port (Massachusetts)
  • CACTUS - Camp David
  • HAMLET - Auchincloss Home on O Street (Washington DC)
  • CHATEAU - President’s Home at Glen Ora (Virginia)
  • CROSSROADS - Middleburg (Virginia)
  • VOLCANO - LBJ Ranch (Texas)
  • CALICO - The Pentagon (Arlington, Virginia) / Defense Communications Agency
  • CORK - FBI Headquarters (Washington DC)

TRANSPORTATION

  • ANGEL -  Air Force One / Aircraft 26000
  • SS 100 X - Presidential Limousine
  • HALFBACK - Presidential Follow-Up Car
  • VARSITY - Vice Presidential Follow-Up Car
  • CARPET - White House Garage
  • ACROBA - Andrews Air Force Base (for Air Force One)
  • ALPHA / CATER / PATA - Army Helicopter Operations, Davison Field
  • CHEER - Helicopter Operations, Anacostia
  • CADET - Exec FLT Det, Davison Field
  • NOMADUSN - Honey Fitz, the Presidential Yacht
  • NEPTUNEUSN - President Yacht #2
  • NIGHT HAWK - Marine Copters, Anacostia
  • NOVICE - Crash Boat PT109
  • ROCKFISH - Vice Presidential Speed Boat

COMMUNICATIONS

  • CASTLE - Signal Corps Shops 26th Street
  • SATCHEL - Presidential Courier / Bagman
  • SPECTATOR - Gen. Sampson (Defense Communications Agency)
  • SPUD - Mr. Nash (Messenger Service White House)
  • STAR - Colonel George McNally, White House Communications Agency
  • STURDY - Art Bales, White House Communications Agency
  • SHADOW - Ira Gearhart, White House Communications Agency 

SECRET SERVICE AGENTS

  • DOMINO - James Rowley, Chief of the Secret Service
  • DUPLEX - Gerald Behn
  • DEACON - Floyd Boring
  • DAZZLE - Clint Hill, First Lady Detail
  • DANDY - Lem Johns
  • DIGEST - Roy Kellerman
  • DAYLIGHT - Jerry Kivett
  • DEBUT - Paul Landis
  • DUSTY - Emory Roberts
  • DAGGER - Rufus Youngblood
  • DASHER - Tom Wells
  • DRESSER - Bob Foster
  • DRUMMER - Lynn Meredith
  • DRAGON - Agent Campion
  • DAPPER - Mr. O’Leary (Muggsy)
  • HERMIT - Secret Service Field Office New York City

OTHER AND UNIDENTIFIED

  • SMOKEYS - MAJ Duffy
  • SUPERMBGT - Giordano
  • WINNER - Mr. Hatcher

SOURCE: This list is compiled from ST448-1-62, Still Pictures, John F. Kennedy Library; and William Manchester, The Death of a President: November 20 – November 25, 1963 (New York: Harper & Row, 1967) pp.xv-xvi., as noted in The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis by David Coleman. W.W. Norton & Company, 2012.

 

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