List of Abbreviations

  • ACW, anti-aircraft warfare
  • AC&W, aircraft control & warning
  • AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
  • AID, Agency for International Development
  • AIDTO, telegram indicator for messages from USOM to AID
  • ARTY, artillery
  • ASW, anti-submarine warfare
  • BADGE, base air defense ground environment
  • BNS, battalions
  • CA, circular airgram; Office of Chinese Affairs, Department of State
  • CAF, Chinese Air Force (Republic of China)
  • CAS, Controlled American Source
  • ChiCom, Chinese Communist(s)
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CIB, Combined Intelligence Board
  • CIC, Counterintelligence Corps
  • CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific
  • CINCPAC POLAD, Political Adviser to the Commander in Chief, Pacific
  • CINCUNC, Commander in Chief, United Nations Command
  • CJCS, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • CMDR, Commander
  • CNO, Chief of Naval Operations
  • CODEL, Congressional delegation
  • COMUSJAPAN, Commander, United States Forces, Japan
  • COMUSKOREA, Commander, United States Forces, Korea
  • COMUSTDC, Commander, United States Taiwan Defense Command
  • CPG, Central People’s Government
  • CPR, Chinese People’s Republic
  • CUSA, Council for United States Aid (Republic of China)
  • CY, calendar year
  • DAG, Development Assistance Group
  • DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
  • DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
  • DEF, defense
  • Deptel, Department of State telegram
  • DL, Development Loan
  • DLF, Development Loan Fund
  • DMZ, Demilitarized Zone
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • DRP, Democratic Republican Party (Republic of Korea)
  • E, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • EA, Office of East Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • EA/J, Officer in Charge of Japanese Affairs, Office of East Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • EAP, East Asia and Pacific
  • ECM, electronic countermeasures
  • ECONCOM, Economic Committee
  • EEC, European Economic Community
  • Embtel, Embassy telegram
  • E.O., Executive Order
  • E/OR, Office of International Resources, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • E/OT, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • EPB, Economic Planning Board
  • FA, food allocation
  • FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • FE/EA, Office of East Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • FonMin, Foreign Minister
  • F.R., Federal Register
  • FRC, Federal Records Center
  • FROKA, First Republic of Korea Army
  • FY, fiscal year
  • FYI, for your information
  • G, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • GARIOA, Government and Relief in Occupied Areas
  • GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • GIO, Government Information Office (Republic of China)
  • GNP, Gross National Product
  • GOJ, Government of Japan
  • G/PM, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
  • GRC, Government of the Republic of China (Taipei)
  • GRI, Government of the Ryukyu Islands
  • HE, high explosives
  • HICOM, High Commissioner (of the Ryukyu Islands)
  • IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
  • ICA, International Cooperation Administration
  • ICBM, inter-continental ballistic missiles
  • ICC, International Control Commission (Vietnam)
  • ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross
  • IDA, International Development Association
  • IMF, International Monetary Fund
  • INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • IPI, International Press Institute
  • ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • ISA/FE, Far East Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • JAEC, Japanese Atomic Energy Commission
  • JCP, Japan Communist Party
  • JCRR, Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction (Republic of China)
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum
  • JFY, Japan fiscal year
  • JIC, Joint Intelligence Committee
  • JSP, Japan Socialist Party
  • KBS, Korean Broadcast Service
  • KCIA, Korean Central Intelligence Agency
  • KMT, Kuomintang
  • KST, Korean Standard Time
  • kw, kilowatt
  • L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
  • LCM, landing craft, mechanized
  • LDC, less developed countries
  • LDP, Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
  • L/FE, Assistant Legal Adviser for Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • LOG COMD, Logistics Command
  • L/SFP, Assistant Legal Adviser for Special Functional Problems
  • LST, landing ship, tank
  • LTA, Long Term Agreement (on cotton textiles)
  • M, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
  • MAC, Military Armistice Commission
  • MACE, a surface-to-air missile
  • MAF, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
  • MAP, Military Assistance Program
  • MC, Marine Corps
  • MCST, Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty
  • MDC, Military District Commander
  • MFN, most favored nation
  • MITI, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan)
  • MND, Minister of Defense
  • MP, Military Police
  • NA, Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NEFA, Northeast Frontier Agency
  • niact, night action, immediate reply
  • NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
  • NK, North Korea
  • NOFORN, No foreign distribution
  • NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
  • NSC, National Security Council
  • NT, New Taiwan
  • OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • OP, Operations Plan
  • OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • OSD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • OTF, Office of International Trade and Finance, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • OTF/TA, Trade Agreements Division, Office of International Trade and Finance, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • PACOM, Pacific Command
  • PIO, EUSA, Public Information Office, Eighth U.S. Army
  • POL, politics; petroleum, oil, and lubrication
  • POLAD, Political Adviser
  • P.L., Public Law
  • PRC, People’s Republic of China
  • Pri Min, Prime Minister
  • QR, quota restriction
  • reftel, reference telegram
  • rep, representative
  • ROK, Republic of Korea
  • ROKA, Republic of Korea Army
  • ROKAF, Republic of Korea Armed Forces
  • ROKG, Republic of Korea Government
  • rptd, repeated
  • SA, Stabilization Assistance
  • SAM, surface-to-air missile
  • SCNR, Supreme Council for National Reconstruction
  • SECTO, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State or his party to the Department of State
  • sens, sensitive
  • SG, Steering Group
  • SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe
  • SIOP, Single Integrated Operations Plan (for use of strategic nuclear weapons)
  • SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
  • SOF, Status of Forces
  • SOFA, Status of Forces Agreement
  • S/P, Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State
  • SROKA, Second Republic of Korea Army
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • SSN, nuclear ballistic missile submarine
  • TDC, Taiwan Defense Command
  • TEA, Trade Expansion Act
  • TIAS, United States Treaties and Other International Agreements
  • TOPOL, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Permanent Representative at the North Atlantic Council, Paris
  • TOSEC, series indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State or his party from the Department of State
  • U, Under Secretary of State
  • UK, United Kingdom
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNC, United Nations Command
  • UNCMAC, United Nations Command, Military Armistice Commission
  • UNCURK, United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea
  • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
  • unn, unnumbered
  • UNP, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • U/PR, Chief of Protocol, Department of State
  • USA, United States Army
  • USAF, United States Air Force
  • USARPAC, United States Army, Pacific
  • USCAR, United States Civil Authority, Ryukyus
  • USDEL, United States Delegation
  • USFK, United States Forces in Korea
  • USG, United States Government
  • USIA, United States Information Agency
  • USIB, United States Intelligence Board
  • USIS, United States Information Service
  • US MP, U.S. Military Police
  • US MPS, United States Military Personnel
  • USN, United States Navy
  • USOM, United States Operations Mission
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • UST, United States Treaties (series)
  • USTDC, United States Taiwan Defense Command
  • ZENRO, Japanese trade union grouping