Office of the Historian

Abbreviations

  • ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
  • AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
  • AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • AF/P, Public Affairs Adviser, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • AID, Agency for International Development
  • Amtorg, Amerikanskaia Torgovlia (Soviet trading company in the United States)
  • ARA/P, Public Affairs Adviser, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
  • ASAP, as soon as possible
  • ATA, Air Transport Association; actual time of arrival
  • BASC, Berlin Air Safety Center
  • BEA, British European Airways
  • BNSP, basic national security policy
  • BRD, Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany)
  • BTF, Berlin Task Force
  • CA, circular airgram; Office of Chinese Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • CAB, Civil Aeronautics Board
  • C&F; CAF, cost and freight
  • CAP, series indicator for outgoing White House telegrams
  • CC, Central Committee
  • CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation
  • CEMA, Council for Economic Mutual Assistance
  • CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
  • ChiCom, Chinese Communist
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • COCOM, Coordinating Committee of the Paris Consultative Group
  • CP, Communist Party
  • CPSU, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • CU, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State
  • CU/PDS, Plans and Development Staff, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State
  • DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
  • DDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic)
  • Deptel, Department of State telegram
  • Disto, series indicator for telegrams from the U.S. delegation at the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee
  • DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • E, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • ECOSOC, Economic and Social Council (United Nations)
  • EE, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EEC, European Economic Community
  • Emb, Embassy
  • Embtel, Embassy telegram
  • ENDC, Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee
  • EST, Eastern Standard Time
  • EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/EE, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/P, Public Affairs Adviser, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/SES, Soviet and East European Exchanges Staff, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
  • FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • FE/P, Public Affairs Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • FOB, free on board
  • FonMin, Foreign Ministry
  • FonOff, Foreign Office
  • FRC, Federal Records Center
  • FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
  • G/B, Germany/Berlin
  • G/PM, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
  • GA, General Assembly
  • GCD, general and complete disarmament
  • GDR, German Democratic Republic
  • GNP, gross national product
  • H, Bureau of Congressional Relations, Department of State
  • HEW, Department of Health, Education and Welfare
  • HMG, Her Majestyʼs Government
  • ICA, International Cooperation Administration
  • ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization
  • ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile
  • ICC, International Control Commission
  • ICJ, International Court of Justice
  • IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • IRBM, intermediate-range ballistic missile
  • K, Khrushchev
  • L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
  • LA, Latin America
  • LS, Division of Language Services, Bureau of Operations, Department of State
  • M, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • MFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • MFN, most favored nation
  • MID, Ministerstvo Inostrannykh Del (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
  • MIG, Soviet-built fighter aircraft
  • MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • MLF, multilateral force
  • MNF, multinational force
  • MRBM, medium-range ballistic missile
  • NAC, North Atlantic Council
  • NAP, non-aggression pact
  • NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NBC, National Broadcasting Company
  • Niact, night action: communications indicator requiring attention by the recipient at any hour of the day or night
  • NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
  • NM, nautical mile
  • Noforn, no foreign distribution
  • NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
  • NSK, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
  • OAS, Organization of American States
  • OEE, Office of Educational Exchange, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State
  • OSI, Office of Scientific Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
  • P, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
  • P/OPS, Office of Public Services, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
  • PAA, Pan American Airways
  • PanAm, Pan American Airways
  • PAO, public affairs officer
  • PermRep, permanent representative
  • PL, Pathet Lao
  • PMK, Presidentʼs meeting with Khrushchev
  • PNG, persona non grata
  • POL, petroleum, oil, lubricants
  • POLAD, political adviser
  • Polto, series indicator for telegrams from the U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
  • RA, Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • RA/P, Public Affairs Adviser, Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • RCA, Radio Corporation of America
  • reftel, reference telegram
  • RLG, Royal Lao Government
  • RSB, Office of Research and Analysis for the Sino-Soviet Bloc, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • S, Office of the Secretary of State
  • S/AL, Office of the Ambassador at Large, Department of State
  • SAC, Strategic Air Command
  • SC, Security Council
  • SCA, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State
  • SEA, Southeast Asia
  • SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
  • Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State or his delegation
  • septel, separate telegram
  • SES, Soviet and East European Exchanges Staff, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • S/EWC, Office of the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for East-West Exchange
  • SMUN, Soviet Mission at the United Nations
  • SOV, Soviet; Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • SovBloc, Soviet Bloc
  • SovGov(t), Soviet Government
  • S/P, Policy Planning Staff or Policy Planning Council, Department of State
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • S/S-RO, Reports and Operations Staff, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • SU, Soviet Union
  • Supnu, series indicator for telegrams from the Delegation to the Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons
  • SYG, Secretary General
  • TASS, Telegrafnoye Agentsvo Sovetskogo Soiuza (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union)
  • TB, test ban
  • Todis, series indicator for telegrams from the U.S. delegation at the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee
  • Topol, series indicator for telegrams from the U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
  • Tosec, series indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State while away from Washington
  • TRC, Office of Transportation and Communication, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • TRC/AV, Aviation Division, Office of Transportation and Communication, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • U, Office of the Under Secretary of State
  • U-2, U.S. high altitude reconnaissance aircraft
  • UAR, United Arab Republic
  • UK, United Kingdom
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
  • USG, United States Government
  • USIA, United States Information Agency
  • USIB, United States Intelligence Board
  • USIS, United States Information Service
  • US/MC, United States Memorandum of Conversation
  • USRO, United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations (New York)
  • VOA, Voice of America
  • WE, Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • WFTU, World Federation of Trade Unions
  • WHO, World Health Organization