Abbreviations and Terms

• AAA, antiaircraft artillery
• ADA, Americans for Democratic Action
• AID, Agency for International Development
• A/IM, Office of Information Management, Bureau of Administration
• ANZUS, Australia, New Zealand, United States
• Arc Light, codename for U.S. B-52 bombing strikes in Southeast Asia
• ARVN, Army of the Republic of (South) Vietnam
• Aspen, codename for U.S. peace negotiations through Swedish channels
• B-52, USAF strategic bomber
• Barrell Roll, codename for U. S. air operations over northern Laos
• Bus (Buzz), nickname for General Earle Wheeler
• C, Confidential
• C-130, USAF transport plane
• CAP, series indicator for outgoing White House telegrams
• CAS, controlled American source
• CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CIDG, Civilian Irregular Defense Group, Republic of Vietnam
• Chieu Hoi, Republic of South Vietnam’s repatriation program for the Viet Cong
• CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific
• CINCPACAF, Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Force
• CINCPACFLT, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet
• CINCUSARPAC, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Pacific
• CIP, Commercial Import Program
• CJCS, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• CMC, Clark M. Clifford
• COMUSMACV, Commander, U. S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
• CORDS, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development
• COSVN, Central Office for South Vietnam
• CVT, Congress of Vietnamese Trade Unions
• Daniel Boone, clandestine U.S.-ARVN reconnaissance operations into Cambodian border areas
• DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
• DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
• Delto, Department of State telegram to the Paris Delegation
• Dep, Deputy
• Deptel, Department of State telegram
• DFF, Democratic Freedom Force
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• DIOCC, Defense Intelligence Office Command Center
• DMZ, Demilitarized Zone
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
• EA, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
• EA/ACA, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of Asian Communist Affairs
• EA/VN, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Vietnam Working Group
• EST, eastern standard time
• Exdis, exclusive distribution
• FOMIN, foreign minister
• FRC, Federal Records Center
• FULRO, United Front for the Struggle of the Oppressed Race, a movement for Montagnard autonomy
• FWMAF, Free World Military Assistance Forces
• FY, fiscal year
• FYI, for your information
• GME, George M. Esley
• GMT, Greenwich Mean Time
• GON, Government of Norway
• GVN, Government of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
• HAK, Henry A. Kissinger
• HARVAN, Harriman-Vance mission to the Paris peace talks
• HES, Hamlet Evaluation System
• HHH, Hubert H. Humphrey
• ICBM, Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
• ICC, International Control Commission
• ICEX, Infrastructure Coordination and Exploitation
• ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross
• IMF, International Monetary Fund
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/DDC, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Deputy Director for Coordination
• INR/IL, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Intelligence Liaison
• INR/REA, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and Pacific
• ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• IS/OIS, Office of Information Services
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum
• JGS, Joint General Staff, Vietnamese Armed Forces
• JUSPAO, Joint United States Public Affairs Office
• KIA, killed in action
• LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson
• Lien Minh, National Alliance for Social Revolution
• Limdis, limited distribution
• LOC, line of communication
• M-16, U.S. military field rifle
• MACV, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
• MAP, Military Assistance Program
• MiG, Soviet-built fighter aircraft
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NLF (also NFL, FNL), National Liberation Front
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• NM, nautical miles
• NMCC, National Military Command Center
• NMICC, National Military Intelligence Coordination Center
• Nodis, no distribution
• Noforn, no foreign distribution
• NP, National Police
• NPFF, National Police Field Force
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
• NSC, National Security Council
• NSF, National Salvation Front
• NVA, North Vietnamese Army
• NVN, North Vietnam
• OASD, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
• O/B, order of battle
• Ohio, codename for secret peace initiative mediated by the Norwegian Government
• ONE, Office of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• PAVN, People’s Army of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
• PF, Popular Forces
• PFF, Police Field Forces
• PHN, Paul H. Nitze
• Phoenix, U.S. military-supported program against the Viet Cong infrastructure
• Phung Hoang, South Vietnamese Government-sponsored program to attack the Viet Cong infrastructure
• P.L., Public Law
• PM, Prime Minister
• PNO, numbering system for recorded conversations
• POL, petroleum, oil, lubricants; political
• POLAD, Political Adviser
• POW, prisoner of war
• Prairie Fire, interdiction operations in Laos
• PW, prisoner of war
• PX, post exchange
• RD, Revolutionary Development
• recce, reconnaissance
• reftel, reference telegram
• RF, Regional Forces
• RG, Record Group
• ROK, Republic of Korea
• Rolling Thunder, codename for program of U.S. air operations in North Vietnam
• RP, route packages
• RT, Rolling Thunder
• RVN, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
• RVNAF, Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
• S, Secret
• SAM, surface to air missiles
• SAVA, Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
• SC, Security Council
• SEA, Southeast Asia
• Sea Dragon, naval interdiction operations along the North Vietnamese coast up to the 20th parallel
• SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
• SecDef, Secretary of Defense
• Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State while away from Washington
• septel, separate telegram
• SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Shining Brass, codename for cross-border operations into Laos and the DMZ
• Sitrep, situation report
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• SOG, Studies and Observation Group
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• Steel Tiger, codename for U.S. air strikes against the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos
• SVN, South Vietnam
• SYG, Secretary-General of the United Nations
• TASS, official Soviet news agency
• TCC, troop contributing countries
• Todel, State Department telegrams to the delegation in Paris
• Tosec, series indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State while away from Washington
• TS, Top Secret
• TV, television
• U, unclassified
• UAW, United Auto Workers
• UK, United Kingdom
• UN, United Nations
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UPI, United Press International
• US, United States
• USAID, United States Agency for International Development Mission
• USG, United States Government
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USMACV, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
• USOM, United States Operations Mission
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
• VC, Viet Cong
• VCI, Viet Cong Infrastructure
• VIET, Vietnam
• Viet Cong (Vietcong), South Vietnamese and American term for soldiers of the National Liberation Front
• VN, Vietnam; Vietnam Working Group, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
• VNAF, South Vietnamese Air Force
• VNCC, Vietnam Coordinating Committee
• VNQDD, Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang (Vietnamese Nationalist Party)
• VP, Vice President
• WH, White House
• Z, Zulu (Greenwich Mean Time)