# Archangel **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 18, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296 "2016-11-18T00:21:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/1 "2016-11-18T00:21:34Z")
For some reason, I’ve had ‘Archangel’ in my head. I know that there is a city known in English by that name, in Russia, but that doesn’t seem to be what’s lurking in the back of my mind. Was Archangel a spy’s codename, either in real life, or in fiction? Does the city have something to do with the Cold War? Or WWII? I’m getting a Tom Clancy vibe… ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/2 "2016-11-18T00:22:47Z")
Is that your activation word? Are you a or THE Manchurian candidate? ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/3 "2016-11-18T00:47:17Z")
Well - there is [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ-QLl5qjLg) Or there is an ancient pub in Frome, England (rhymes with broom). [http://www.archangelfrome.com/](http://www.archangelfrome.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/4 "2016-11-18T00:54:05Z")
There was a decent novel and made-for-TV movie by that name: [Archangel (Harris novel) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archangel_(Harris_novel)#Television_adaptation) ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/5 "2016-11-18T01:04:34Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Or WWII? The Arctic Convoys went mostly to Archangel or Murmansk. One of my ancestors was said to have come from Archangel. No doubt many did: it’s a big port. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/6 "2016-11-18T01:18:44Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#): > > The Arctic Convoys went mostly to Archangel or Murmansk. That rings a bell. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/7 "2016-11-18T01:48:23Z")
> [@Atomic\_Alex](#): > > There was a decent novel and made-for-TV movie by that name: [Archangel (Harris novel) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archangel_(Harris_novel)#Television_adaptation) I’d go further and say that the novel is actually pretty good, as indeed all the Robert Harris books I’ve read have been. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/8 "2016-11-18T02:19:04Z")
In Apocalypse Now, in one of Willard’s voice-overs he mentions an ‘operation Archangel’ that Colonel Kurtz ran. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/9 "2016-11-18T02:24:09Z")
> [@mack](#): > > In Apocalypse Now, in one of Willard’s voice-overs he mentions an ‘operation Archangel’ that Colonel Kurtz ran. That also rings a bell. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/10 "2016-11-18T04:03:32Z")
In the Dresden Files series Archangel was the location of a White Council stronghold that was overrun by the Red Court… ---
**Author:** ![turtlescanfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@turtlescanfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turtlescanfly)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/archangel/772296/11 "2016-11-18T21:44:16Z")
it was the code name of one of the main characters in the TV show “Airwolf”…he usually dressed all in white and wore an eye patch. Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk