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Every secret agent has a code name.
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The unconfirmed lore behind the holiday is that a group of California teens in the 70s would regularly meet up to smoke at 4:20 pm and their use of the time stamp as a code name took off.
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Jeanie Pyun, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
What to Know Crossfire Hurricane was the code name for the FBI's investigation into whether the Trump campaign worked with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
Believe it or not, the film's director James Hawes insists Bernthal's secret agent code name was not an intentional call-out to his current run as the late, troubled, elder Berzatto brother Mikey on TV.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Hill, whose code name was Dazzle, was given the highest civilian honor for bravery awarded by the U.S. Treasury Department, which the Secret Service was then a part of.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2025
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Jeanie Pyun, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2025
What to Know Crossfire Hurricane was the code name for the FBI's investigation into whether the Trump campaign worked with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
Believe it or not, the film's director James Hawes insists Bernthal's secret agent code name was not an intentional call-out to his current run as the late, troubled, elder Berzatto brother Mikey on TV.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Hill, whose code name was Dazzle, was given the highest civilian honor for bravery awarded by the U.S. Treasury Department, which the Secret Service was then a part of.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Code name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/code%20name. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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