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All known code names used throughout the series.

Code Name Source Description
ABLE ARCHER Dead Lies Dreaming Code name for Wendy Deere.
Agent CANDID The Fuller Memorandum Code name for Bob Howard’s wife, Dr. Dominique “Mo” O’Brien.
AXIOM REFUGE Down on the Farm A dense mathematical treatise introducing a notation for describing certain categories of topological defect in a twelve-dimensional space.
AZORIAN BLUE HADES The Jennifer Morgue undefined
BASHFUL INCENDIARY The Apocalypse Codex Persephone Hazard, a witch who is “observed” by the Externalities Department of The Laundry. In reality, Ms. Hazard is a contractor to said Department who snoops on the Prime Minister.
BLUE HADES The Jennifer Morgue The Deep Ones
BONE SILVER STAR The Fuller Memorandum Undefined, except to note that it refers to the artifact “Argenteum Astrum”
CASE BROCCOLI GOLDENEYE The Jennifer Morgue The code name for the case file that documents the events of The Jennifer Morgue.
CASE NIGHTMARE The Nightmare Stacks CASE NIGHTMARE is the superclass of contingency plans the Laundry maintains for dealing with the end of the world.
CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN The Atrocity Archives When the "stars are right" and the elder gods awaken, with all that entails
CASE NIGHTMARE YELLOW The Nightmare Stacks “CASE NIGHTMARE YELLOW is the geek apocalypse. During the Twinkie singularity stuff begins to come alive, and to think: mostly stuff that shouldn’t. Stuff like Facebook, or Vodafone, or your teacup—the Internet of Things That Go Bump in the Night. Invasion by superintelligent hostile cafeteria fixtures, if you like. (At least, I think that’s what Jez was getting at. My brain had halfway shut down by the time she got to YELLOW.) It’s your classic nerd-rapture hard-takeoff singularity, but it’s a lot less fun than the Silicon Valley set seem to think when it sprouts tentacles and sucks your brain out through your ears. This one doesn’t end well either.”
CASE NIGHTMARE RED The Nightmare Stacks “CASE NIGHTMARE RED is invasion by aliens. The aforementioned excess of magic we’re making creates a signal that’s causally entangled with the human noösphere, the totalization of human experience that we generate and contribute to by thinking. This signal is detectable at a considerable distance by various entities, who interpret it as a flashing neon sign saying all-you-can-eat buffet here. They might be incorporeal parasites like my V-symbionts or the feeders in the night, or they might be physical invaders: but either way, we’re into necromantic War of the Worlds territory, which doesn’t end well.”
CRYSTAL CENTURY The Jennifer Morgue undefined
DEEP SIX Equoid undefined
DEEP SEVEN The Jennifer Morgue The Cthonians
DELIRIUM file The Delirium File The file describing the privatization of the American OCCINT agency, the Comstock Office (which is housed within the United States Postal Service), by the Golden Promise Ministries.
FLORENCE The Labyrinth Index The First Lady
FLUENCY Committee The Apocalypse Codex Author (and Laundry employee) Peter “Wright was on the FLUENCY committee, investigating possible Soviet moles that had been missed. They began seeing spies everywhere, especially after someone upstairs who shall remain nameless gave them access to GREY CADAVER remote viewing intel.”
GAME ANDES REDSHIFT The Atrocity Archives Gorgon/Medusa effect, which led to the Medusa guns, cameras capable of transforming 1 in 1000 carbon atoms to silicon. Originally sourced from humans with tumors in specific regions of the brain.
GIBBOUS MOON Down in the Farm undefined
GOD GAME INDIGO The Delirium Brief The operation described in the Delirium Brief where Mahogany Row splits from Civil Service.
GOD GAME BLACK The Apocalypse Codex undefined
GOD GAME YELLOW The Apocalypse Codex undefined
GREEN GOBLIN The Nightmare Stacks See PLAN RED RABBIT.
GREEN LIME The Rhesus Chart undefined
GREEN PIGEON The Atrocity Archives Code name for an agent placed among the Nazis in 1942.
GREY CADAVER The Apocalypse Codex Presumably a remote viewing intelligence gathering project.
INDIGO HUMMINGBIRD The Delirium Files The three part op assigned to Bob Howard by Dr. Armstrong, Senior Auditor: I want you to draw up an action plan. During the next reception Schiller throws at Nether Stowe House, I want simultaneous searches of Schiller’s apartment and his corporate HQ out at Heathrow. I want us to get people into the off-limits area of the mansion to find out what he’s doing that’s worth spending a million pounds an hour on that he doesn’t want us to see, and I want to disrupt it.”
JENNIFER MORGUE The Jennifer Morgue Site One is where the Soviet nuclear missile submarine sunk near Hawaii where humans detected neutrino bursts, indicative of a BLUE HADES power source, isolated from the main BLUE HADES power grid. Site Two is located near the north end of the Puerto Rico Trench, four kilometers down on a limestone plateau, where damaged machinery was found. “There seems to be some sort of defense field around it, possibly acoustic—anything entering within a two-hundred-and-six-meter radius stops working.” In reality, the Jennifer Morgue is Dagon, a chthonian war machine.
LUDWIG NIGHT The Apocalypse Codex Persephone Hazard’s operation to replace a fake jewel encrusted amulet of the Moon King on display at the Schloss Neuschwanstein (“the last and greatest architectural folly of Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria”, Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm II) with the actual (and previously stolen) amulet which acted as a ward to prevent an incursion during a then-imminent conjunction and alignment. The op was documented in Chapter 1 of The Apocalypse Codex.
MAGINOT BLUE STARS The Atrocity Archives Defensive systems for CASE NIGHTMARE scenarios, particularly SCORPION STARE and CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN
MILDLY EMBARRASSING NO TABLOIDS Equoid One of the lowest security ratings, if not the lowest.
MORTAR BRICKS The Nightmare Stacks The Laundry work group responsible for finding a new HQ for the Laundry. Leeds was investigated as a possible site as part of their work.
OGRE CARNATE GECKO The Atrocity Archives A report on the events at Mo's house after the second attempt on her life.
OGRE REALITY The Atrocity Archives The parallel universe where Nazis summoned an ice giant/infovore from another reality to assist them in their quest, resulting in the early heat death of that universe (aka Fimbulwinter).
Operation CONSTITUENCY The Delirium Brief The honeypot operation under which Iris Carpenter had established and run a chapter of the Cult of the Black Pharaoh, aka CLUB ZERO.
OPERATION INCORRIGIBLE The Annihilation Score The events detailed in the book The Annihilation Score
Operation JENNIFER The Jennifer Morgue The first attempt to retrieve a sunken Soviet nuclear missile submarine. A cover for Operation AZORIAN.
OSCAR The Labyrinth Index The President of the United States
PLAN BLUE BUNNY The Nightmare Stacks See PLAN RED RABBIT.
PLAN GREEN GOBLIN The Nightmare Stacks See PLAN RED RABBIT.
PLAN RED RABBIT The Nightmare Stacks Activation of SCORPION STARE as a consequence of CASE NIGHTMARE RED. Earlier iterations of this plan were called PLAN BLUE BUNNY, PLAN GREEN GOBLIN, and PURPLE PEOPLE EATER. Colloquially known as “invasion by the armies of Middle Earth”.
PROJECT GODWAKER The Labyrinth Index Orbital hypercomputer, a variable-inclination orbital swarm of > 4,294,967,296 invocation nodes (solar-powered neurocomputing node manufactured in orbit from Lunar regolith; high-bandwidth quantum-encrypted prayer links for peer-to-peer summoning coordination; hyperdimensional Dho-Na curve geometry supported by breakthrough in deep neural-network systems). Designed to summon Cthulhu.
PROJECT MOONSTALK The Labyrinth Index Deployment of Lunar Space Elevator from L1 to Lunar South Pole.
PURPLE PEOPLE EATER The Nightmare Stacks See PLAN RED RABBIT.
RANCID MOON The Delirium Brief Undefined, but in the words of Bob Howard, “if they’ve stumbled across RANCID MOON I could be putting out the resulting fires for the next decade.” Unknown if related to GIBBOUS MOON, which is also undefined.
RARDE’s BLUE PEACOCK Equoid Undefined, except to note it is “an unedifying, if not actually insane, proposal” when compared to a Ministry of Defence proposal to utilize equoids as a strategic, alternative, non-nuclear deterrent.
RED HARE The Nightmare Stacks The plan for what to do if and when Martian death tripods land on Horsell Common.
RED HORSEMAN The Nightmare Stacks The official Army plan for dealing with the Apocalypse of St. John the Divine. PLAN TITANIC (The Delirium Brief) — is the contingency plan activated if the Laundry’s core mission becomes irrecoverably compromised.
SCORPION STARE The Atrocity Archives Software that runs a basilisk neural network.
THRESHOLD The Labyrinth Index Unknown, though described as “ ...THRESHOLD, GODWAKER, and other esoteric codeword programs....”
YELLOW OLYMPIC The Labyrinth Index The operation assigned to Mhari Murphy and documented in The Labyrinth Index, retrieving the President of the US.

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