Code name policy of assigning code names intended to give no such clues to the uninitiated. For example, the British counter measures against the V-2 was called "Operation Crossbow". The atomic bomb project centered in New Mexico was called the Manhattan Project, derived from the Manhattan Engineer District which managed the program. The code name for the American A-12 / SR-71 spy plane project, producing the fastest, highest-flying aircraft in the world, was "Oxcart". The American group that planned that country's first ICBM was called the Teapot Committee. Although the word could stand for a menace to shipping (in this case, that
Code name Geronimo controversy Laden as an individual and "Geronimo" as the code word for bin Laden's capture or death. In the book "No Easy Day", former SEAL Matt Bissonnette, who participated in the mission, states that "Geronimo" was the code name for bin Laden. The historical Geronimo was a leader of the Chiricahua Apache who defied the U.S. government and eluded capture. "Channel 4 News" said "According to some analysis today, the U.S. military chose the code name because bin Laden, like Geronimo, had evaded capture for years. If they were trying to avoid mythmaking, it seems they chose the wrong code name."