Abbreviations and Terms

• ABM, Anti-Ballistic Missile
• ANC, African National Congress
• ANO, Abu Nidal Organization
• ASAP, As Soon As Possible
• ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• AWAC, Airborne Warning and Control

• BCP, Bulgarian Communist Party
• BIB, Board for International Broadcasting
• BIS, Bank for International Settlements
• BTA, Bulgarian Telegraph Agency

• C, Counselor of the Department of State
• CC, Central Committee
• CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation
• CDC, Control Data Corporation
• CDE, Confidence- and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe
• CDU/CSU, Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (West German political parties)
• CEMA, Council for Economic Mutual Assistance
• CI, Counterintelligence
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CINCUSAFE, Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe
• CINCUSAREUR, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army in Europe
• CJMC, Council for Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
• CMEA, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
• CNO, Chief of Naval Operations
• COCOM, Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
• CODEL, Congressional Delegation
• COM, Chief of Mission
• CP, Communist Party
• CPCZ, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
• CPSU, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• CSCE, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• CSSR, Czecho-Slovak Socialist Republic
• CY, Calendar Year

• D, Office of the Deputy Secretary of State
• DAO, Defense Attaché Officer
• DATT, Defense Attaché
• DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
• DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• DIRNSA, Director of the National Security Agency
• DOD, Department of Defense

• E, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until August 16, 1985; Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs thereafter
• EB, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
• EB/IFD/OMA, Office of Monetary Affairs, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
• EB/OT, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
• EB/TDC, Office of Trade and Commercial Affairs, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
• EC, European Community
• ECONOFF, Economics Officer
• ECM/EW, Electronic Countermeasures/Electronic Warfare
• EE, Eastern Europe
• EEC, European Economic Community
• EFTA, European Free Trade Association
• EMBOFFS, Embassy Officials
• EOB, Executive Office Building (houses the Vice President’s Office)
• EPC, Economic Policy Council
• ESF, Exchange Stabilization Fund, Department of the Treasury
• EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until September 15, 1983; Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State, from September 15, 1983
• EUR/CE, Office of Central European Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State
• EUR/EEY, Office of Eastern European and Yugoslavia Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State
• EUR/SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State
• EUR/WE, Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State

• FAA, Foreign Assistance Act
• FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• FCO, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (United Kingdom)
• FDP, Free Democratic Party (West German political party)
• FEC, Yugoslav Federal Executive Council
• FM, Foreign Minister
• FMS, Foreign Military Sales
• FONMIN, Foreign Minister
• FRB, Federal Reserve Board
• FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
• FSFA, Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs (Yugoslavia)
• FSN, Foreign Service National
• FTA, Free Trade Agreement
• FY, Fiscal Year
• FYI, For Your Information

• GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
• GDR, German Democratic Republic
• GI, Office of Global Issues, Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
• GLCM, Ground-Launched Cruise Missile
• GNP, Gross National Product
• GOB, Government of Bulgaria
• GOC, Government of Czechoslovakia
• GOH, Government of Hungary
• GOP, Government of Poland
• GOR, Government of Romania
• GOY, Government of Yugoslavia
• GPS, George Pratt Shultz
• GRU, Soviet military intelligence agency
• GSP, Generalized System of Preferences

• H, Bureau of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs
• HA, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
• HFAC, House Foreign Affairs Committee
• HQUSAFE, Headquarters for the United States Air Force in Europe
• HSWP, Hungarian Socialist Workers Party
• HVA, East German civilian foreign intelligence agency

• IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
• IBM, International Business Machines Corporation
• IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• ICA, International Communication Agency
• ICBM, Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
• ICEM, Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration
• IFC, International Finance Corporation
• IG, Interagency Group
• IMET, International Military Education and Training
• IMF, International Monetary Fund
• INF, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
• INM, Bureau of International Narcotic Matters, Department of State
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/AR, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of Intelligence and Research for Assessment and Research
• INR/GI, Office of Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/GIS, Global Issues Staff, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/RA, Regional Analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/SEE, Office of Southeast Europe, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INS, Immigration and Naturalization Service
• IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• IPI, International Press Institute
• IPU, Inter-Parliamentary Union

• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JMC, Joint Military Commission
• JPRS, Joint Publication Research Service

• KGB, Committee for State Security in the Soviet Union
• KSC, Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

• L, Legal Adviser, Department of State
• L/EUR, Assistant Legal Adviser, European Affairs, Department of State
• L/HRR, Assistant Legal Adviser, Human Rights and Refugees, Department of State
• LANDSAT, Land Remote-Sensing Satellite
• LCY, League of Communists of Yugoslavia
• LDC, Less Developed Country
• LOA, Letter of Acceptance
• LRINF, Long-Range Intermediate Nuclear Forces

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• MATRA, French aerospace company
• MFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• MFN, Most Favored Nation
• MOU, Memorandum of Understanding
• MSS, Multispectral Scanner
• MYRA, Multi-year Refinancing Agreement

• NAC, North Atlantic Council
• NAM, Nonaligned Movement
• NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NDP, National Defense Panel
• NNA, Neutral Non-Allied
• NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• NSC, National Security Council
• NSDD, National Security Decision Directive
• NSSD, National Security Study Directive
• NST, Nuclear and Space Talks
• NSWP, Non-Soviet Warsaw Pact

• OFM, Office of Foreign Missions, Department of State
• OPEC, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense
• OVP, Office of the Vice President

• P, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• PAC, Pan-Africanist Congress
• PAO, Public Affairs Officer
• PCC, Political Consultative Committee
• PD, Presidential Directive
• PFIAB, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• PLFP–SC, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Special Command
• PLO, Palestine Liberation Organization
• PM, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs
• PNG, Persona Non Grata
• POLAD, Political Advisor
• POLCHIEF, Chief Political Officer
• POLCOUNS, Political Counselor
• POLOFFS, Political Officers
• PRC, People’s Republic of China

• QA, Quadripartite Agreement

• R & D, Research and Development
• RFE, Radio Free Europe
• RL, Radio Liberty
• RSO, Regional Security Officer

• S, Office of the Secretary of State
• S/P, Policy Planning Council, Department of State
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• S/S-O, Operations Center, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• S/S-S Secretariat Staff, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• S & T, Science and Technology
• SCO, Senior Commercial Officer
• SDI, Strategic Defense Initiative
• SDR, Special Drawing Rights
• SED, Socialist Union Party of East Germany
• SFC, Senate Finance Committee
• SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe
• SIG, Senior Interagency Group
• SIG/I, Senior Interagency Group on Intelligence
• SIG-IEP, Senior Interagency Group-International Economic Policy
• SPD, German Social Democratic Party
• SPOT, Systeme Pour l’Observation de la Terre (System for the Observation of the Earth, French Earth-imaging satellite system)
• SRINF, Short-Range Intermediate Nuclear Forces
• STR, Special Trade Representative
• SWAPO, South West African People’s Organization
• SY, Security

• TCP, Third-Country Processing
• TNF, Theater Nuclear Forces
• TPRG, Trade Policy Review Group
• TREAS, Department of the Treasury

• UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• UN, United Nations
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UNIDO, United Nations Industrial Development Organization
• UNITA, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola
• US, United States
• USAFSB, United States Army Field Station Berlin
• USCINCEUR, United States Commander in Chief, European Command
• USCUSAREUR, Commander in Chief, United States Army in Europe
• USDEL, United States Delegation
• USDOC, Department of Commerce
• USDOCO, United States Document Office Allied Land Forces, Southeastern Europe
• USG, United States Government
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USINS, United States Immigration and Naturalization Service
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• USTR, United States Trade Representative
• USYEC, United States-Yugoslav Economic Council

• VAT, Value Added Tax
• VOA, Voice of America
• VOLAG, Voluntary Resettlement Agency
• VOPO, Police force of German Democratic Republic
• VRA, Voluntary Restraint Agreement

• WHSR, White House Situation Room
• WP, Warsaw Pact

• YAF, Yugoslavian Air Force