Office of the Historian

Abbreviations

  • AA, Afro-Asians
  • ABM, anti-ballistic missile
  • ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
  • ADDP, Assistant Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
  • AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
  • AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • AFSC, Air Force Systems Command
  • AFTAC, Air Force Technical Applications Center
  • AG, Attorney General; Arthur Goldberg
  • AID, Agency for International Development
  • ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
  • ARA/CAR, Office of Caribbean Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
  • Art, article
  • ASAF, Asian-African, Asia-Africa
  • ASAP, as soon as possible
  • BOB, Bureau of the Budget
  • CAS, controlled American source
  • CASP, Country Analysis and Strategy Paper
  • CCC, Contingency Coordinating Committee
  • CCP, Consolidated Cryptologic Program
  • CCPC, Critical Collection Problems Committee
  • CCPS, Comprehensive Country Programming System
  • DC, Christian Democratic Party (Italy)
  • ChiCom, Chinese Communist
  • Chirep, Chinese representation
  • CI, Counterinsurgency
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CIAP, Central Intelligence Agency Program
  • CIP, Consolidated Intelligence Program
  • COMINT, Communications Intelligence
  • Comite, committee
  • COMOR, Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance
  • CS, Clandestine Services
  • CU, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State
  • Cyp, Cypriot
  • D/DCI/NIPE, Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for National Intelligence Programs Evaluation
  • D/NRO, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office
  • DCID, Director of Central Intelligence Directive
  • DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
  • DD/P, Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
  • DD/S, Deputy Director for Support, Central Intelligence Agency
  • DD/S&T, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Central Intelligence Agency
  • DDCI, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
  • DDI, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
  • DDO/IMS, Deputy Director for Operations/Information Management Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
  • del, delegate
  • DG, Director General of the Foreign Service, Department of State
  • DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
  • DMZ, Demilitarized Zone
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • E, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • EA, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
  • ECM, Electronic Countermeasures
  • ECOSOC, United Nations Economic and Social Council
  • EIC, Economic Intelligence Committee
  • ELINT, Electronic Intelligence
  • ENDC, Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Conference
  • EOKA, Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (National Organization of Cypriot Fighters)
  • EROP, Executive Review of Overseas Programs
  • EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/BNA, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Exdis, Exclusive Distribution
  • FAA, Federal Aviation Administration
  • FAPS, Foreign Affairs Programming System
  • FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • FI, Foreign Intelligence
  • FM, Foreign Minister
  • fol, following
  • FonOff, Foreign Office
  • FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
  • FSO, Foreign Service officer
  • FSR, Foreign Service Reserve officer
  • FSS, Foreign Service Staff officer
  • FYI, for your information
  • G, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • G/PM, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
  • GA, General Assembly
  • GMAIC, Guided Missiles and Astronautics Intelligence Committee
  • GOC, Government of Cyprus
  • GOG, Government of Greece
  • GOJ, Government of Japan
  • GOT, Government of Turkey
  • GRC, Government of the Republic of China
  • GS, General Schedule
  • H, Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations
  • HMG, Her Majesty’s Government
  • IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • ICC, International Control Commission
  • ICJ, International Court of Justice
  • ICY, International Cooperation Year
  • IDA, International Development Association
  • IDC, Interagency Defector Committee
  • INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • INR/DDC, Office of the Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • IPC, Intelligence Producers’ Council; Interagency Clandestine Collection Priorities Committee
  • IRG, Interdepartmental Regional Group
  • IRG/NEA, Interdepartmental Regional Group for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  • ISA, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
  • JAEIC, Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • L, Legal Adviser of the Department of State
  • L/O, Deputy Legal Adviser for Administration, Department of State
  • L/UNA, Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs, Department of State
  • LA, Latin America
  • LAPC, Latin American Policy Committee
  • LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson
  • LDC, less developed country
  • M, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Department of State
  • MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
  • MACV, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • MAP, Military Assistance Program
  • mbr, member
  • MFN, most favored nation
  • Misoff, Mission officer
  • MLF, Multilateral Force
  • MR, memorandum for the record
  • NAC, North Atlantic Council
  • NAM, National Association of Manufacturers
  • NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • NESA, Bureau for Near East and South Asia, Agency for International Development
  • NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
  • NIH, National Institutes of Health
  • NIRB, National Intelligence Resources Board
  • NIS, National Intelligence Survey
  • NLF, National Liberation Front
  • Nodis, No Distribution
  • NPIC, National Photographic Interpretation Center
  • NPP, National Policy Paper
  • NPT, Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • NRO, National Reconnaissance Office
  • NRP, National Reconnaissance Program
  • NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
  • NSC, National Security Council
  • NSC/OCB, National Security Council, Operations Coordinating Board
  • NSCID, National Security Council Intelligence Directive
  • NY, New York
  • O, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
  • O/DG, Office of the Director General of the Foreign Service, Department of State
  • O/MP, Management Planning Staff, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
  • O/SO, Senior Officer Program, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
  • O/SP, Organization Studies and Procedures Program, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
  • OASD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • OCB, Operations Coordinating Board
  • OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • ONE, Office of National Estimates
  • ONUC, United Nations Congo Operation (Force de L’Organization des Nations Unies au Congo)
  • OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • OSI, Office of Scientific Intelligence
  • para, paragraph
  • PFIAB, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
  • PKF, Peacekeeping Force, Cyprus
  • P.L., Public Law
  • PLA, Palestine Liberation Army
  • PM, Prime Minister
  • PMG, Politico-Military Group
  • PNO, Program Number
  • Polad, Political Adviser
  • PPBS, Planning-Programming-Budgeting System
  • Pres, President
  • Q–S, Alex Quaison-Sackey
  • R&D, Research and Development
  • reftel, reference telegram
  • rep, representative
  • res or reso, resolution
  • RMD, Related Mission Directive
  • S, Office of the Secretary of State
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • SACEUR, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
  • SC, Security Council
  • SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
  • SecDef, Secretary of Defense
  • septel, separate telegram
  • SIC, Scientific Intelligence Committee
  • SIG, Senior Interdepartmental Group
  • SIGINT, Signals Intelligence
  • SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
  • SOF, Status of Forces
  • SOP, standard operating procedure
  • SOV, Soviet; Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Department of StateSPC Special Political Committee
  • SVN, South Vietnam
  • SYG, Secretary-General
  • TSO, Truce Supervision Organization
  • U, Office of the Under Secretary of State
  • UAR, United Arab Republic
  • UDI, Unilateral Declaration of Independence
  • UK, United Kingdom
  • UKUN, United Kingdom Delegation to the United Nations
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNCTAD, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  • UNCURK, United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea
  • UNDC, United Nations Disarmament Commission
  • UNEF, United Nations Emergency Force
  • UNFICYP, United Nations Peace-Keeping Force in Cyprus
  • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
  • UNICEF, United Nations Children’s Fund
  • UNIPOM, United Nations India-Pakistan Observation Mission
  • UNMOGIP, United Nations Military Observer Group for India and Pakistan
  • UNOC, United Nations Operations, Congo
  • UNP, Office of United Nations Political Affairs, Bureau of International Organi-zation Affairs, Department of State
  • UNRWA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
  • UNTSO, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine
  • USDEL, United States Delegation
  • USIA, United States Information Agency
  • USIB, United States Intelligence Board
  • USIS, United States Information Service
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
  • VC, Viet Cong
  • WDC, World Disarmament Conference
  • WEU, Western European Union