Exercise Codewords
I have just recalled another exercise codeword that trips off the tongue:
bandolero
Also, not long after Anthony Gray's book, The Penetrators was published I noticed that he used the same codeword in his novel as was in the Bomber Command Alert and Readiness Plans. In BCARs the order for implementation of Alert Condition One was Prometheus and Gray used the same codeword. The next codeword he used was Apocalypse. Had he compromised our codewords?
I reported what I found and an investigation found that it had been a coincidence, a bit like the D-Day crossword, and the BCAR codeword had been chosen after Gray's novel was published.