Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume
XXIII, Congo, 1960–1968
Abbreviations and Cryptonyms
- ABAKO, Alliance des
Ba-Kongo
- ACOA, American
Committee on Africa
- ADV, Advance
Echelon
- AF, Bureau of African
Affairs, Department of State
- AF/P, Public Affairs
Adviser, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
- AFB, Air Force
Base
- AFC, Office of
Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of
State
- AFI, Office of
Inter-African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
- AID, Agency for
International Development
- Amb,
ambassador
- ammo,
ammunition
- ANC, Armée Nationale
Congolaise, Congolese National Army
- AP, Associated
Press
- ARMA, Army
Attaché
- ARMISHI/MAAG,
U.S. Army Mission in Iran/Military Assistance Advisory Group
- BAFM, Belgian Air
Force Mission
- BALUBAKAT,
Association des Baluba du Katanga
- BCF, Belgian Congo
Franc
- BF, Belgian
Franc
- BLOC, communist
bloc
- BNA, Office of
British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European
Affairs, Department of State
- BRUS,
Brussels
- CA, covert
action
- C/AF, Chief, Africa
Bureau, Central Intelligence Agency
- CAF, Congolese Air
Force
- CAR, Central African
Republic
- CAS, controlled
American source
- CCC, Congo
Conciliation Commission
- CDA, Comité
Démocratique Africain
- Chicom, Chinese
Communist(s)
- Chinat, Chinese
nationals
- CI,
counterinsurgency
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CINCEUR,
Commander in Chief, European Command
- CINCLANT,
Commander in Chief, Armed Forces, Atlantic
- CINCMEAFSA,
Commander in Chief, Middle East/South Asia and Africa South of the
Sahara
- CINCSTRIKE,
Commander in Chief, Strike Command
- CIVOPS, Civilian
Operations in the Congo (UN)
- CJCS, Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff
- CNA, Congo National
Army
- CNL, Committee of
National Liberation
- CO, Commanding
Officer
- COMINT,
communications intelligence
- COMISH, U.S.
military mission, Congo
- COMUSJTF,
Commander, U.S. Joint Task Force
- CONACO, Comité
Nationale du Congo [Tshombe’s party]
- CONAKAT,
Confédération des Association Tribales du Katanga
- Contels,
consulate telegrams
- COQ, Coquilhatville
(Congo)
- COS, Chief of
Station
- CP, Communist
Party
- CRS/CB, Central
Reference Service, Collection Branch, Central lntelligence Agency
- CS, Chief of
Staff
- CWG, Congo Working
Group
- DCI, Director of
Central intelligence
- DCI/OCA, Office of
Congressional Affairs, Office of the Director of Central Intelligence
- DCM, Deputy Chief of
Mission
- DDO/AF, Africa
Division, Office of the Deputy Director for Operations, Central lntelligence
Agency
- DDO/IMS,
Information Management Staff, Office of the Deputy Director for Operations,
Central lntelligence Agency
- DDP, Deputy Director
for Plans, Central lntelligence Agency
- DDP/AF, Africa
Division, Office of the Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence
Agency
- DEFCON, defense
readiness condition
- DEFMIN, defense
minister
- DEL,
delegation
- DEPCIRCTEL,
Department of State, circular telegram
- Deptel, Department
of State telegram
- Deptoff,
Department of State Officer
- DIR, Director
- DOD, Department of
Defense
- DOD/GC, General
Counsel, Department of Defense
- DOS, Department of
State
- DR, Dragon Rouge,
U.S.-Belgian military operation into Stanleyville to rescue the foreign
community
- DRC, Democratic
Republic of the Congo
- Eliz,
Elizabethville
- Emboff, Embassy
Officer
- Embtel, Embassy
telegram
- EST, Eastern Standard
Time
- ETA, estimated time
of arrival
- EUR, Bureau of
European Affairs, Department of State
- EUR/FBX, Country
Director for France, Benelux, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of
State
- EUR/SPP, Country
Director for Spain and Portugal, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of
State
- EXDIS, Exclusive
Distribution (acronym indicating extremely limited distribution or
dissemination)
- FBIS, Foreign
Broadcast Information Service
- FI, foreign
intelligence
- FM, Foreign
Minister
- FONMIN, Foreign
Minister
- FMS, Foreign Military
Sales
- FOL, following
- FONOFF, Foreign
Office
- FRC, Federal Records
Center
- FY, fiscal year
- FYI, for your
information
- GA, General Assembly
(UN)
- GDRC, Government of
the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- GOB, Government of
Belgium
- GOC, Government of
the Congo
- GOCL, Government of
the Congo at Léopoldville
- GOK, Government of
Katanga
- GON, Government of
Nigeria
- GOR, Government of
Rwanda
- GOT, Government of
Tanzania
- GOU, Government of
Uganda
- Govts,
governments
- GRAE, Angolan
Revolutionary Government in Exile
- GRC, Government of
the Republic of China
- HIM, His Imperial
Majesty
- HM, His Majesty
- HMG, Her Majesty’s
Government
- HQS,
headquarters
- IBRD, lnternational
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
- Iden,
identity
- ICJ, lnternational
Court of Justice
- ICRC, lnternational
Committee of the Red Cross
- IEG, Imperial
Ethiopian Government
- IMF, lnternational
Monetary Fund
- INR, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INTEL,
intelligence
- IO/UNP, Office of
United Nations Political Affairs, Bureau of lnternational Organization
Affairs, Department of State
- ITM, Italian Training
Mission
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
- JTF, joint task
force
- KATGENS, Katangan
gendarmes
- KUBARK, Central
Intelligence Agency
- Leo,
Léopoldville
- LEOP,
Léopoldville
- LIMDIS, limited
distribution
- M, Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs
- MAP, Military
Assistance Aid Program
- memcon, memorandum
of conversation
- merc,
mercenary
- MIL, military
- MNC, Mouvement
National Congolais
- MOD, Minister of
Defense
- MPC, Mouvement
Populaire Congolais
- msg, message
- MTT, mobile training
team
- NATO, North American
Treaty Organization
- NIACT, needs
immediate action
- NOFORN, No Foreign
Dissemination
- NSC, National
Security Council
- OASD, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense
- OASD/ISA, Office
of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs
- OAU, Organization of
African Unity
- OCAM, Organzation
Commune Africaine et Malagache (African-Malagasy Common Organization)
- ODACID, U.S.
Department of State
- ODDI, Office of the
Deputy Director of Intelligence
- ODYOKE, U.S.
Government
- OEP, Office of
Emergency Planning
- OPIM, Operational
Immediate
- Ops,
operations
- Org,
organization
- PARA, paratroop;
paragraph
- PBPRIME, United
States
- PBPRIMERS,
Americans
- PM, Prime
Minister
- PNG, persona non
grata
- PNP, Parti National
du Progress
- POLAD, political
adviser
- POLIT,
political
- Polto, series
indicator for telegrams from the United States Mission to the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations to the Department of
State
- PRIMIN, prime
minister
- psywar,
psychological warfare
- PSA, Parti Solidaire
Africain
- PUNA, Parti de
l’Unité National
- QTE, quote
- RADECO,
Ressemblement des Démocrates Congolaise
- Re, regarding
- REFTEL, reference
telegram
- Rep,
representative
- reps,
representatives
- RG, Record
Group
- Roger, channel for
communications between the Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research
(INR) and the chief of mission
- rpt, repeat
- Rybat,
communications indicator that limits the distribution of sensitive
material
- S, Office of the
Secretary of State
- S/AH, Office of the
Ambassador at Large
- SA, South
Africa
- SAC, Strategic Air
Command
- SAG, South African
Government
- SC RES, Security
Council resolutions
- SC, Security Council
(UN)
- SCS, Office of
Special Consular Services
- SG, Special
Group
- SITREP, situation
report
- SNIE, Special
National Intelligence Estimate
- SOV, Soviet
- SQ, squadron
- Sta, station
- STAN,
Stanleyville
- STEY,
Stanleyville
- STRCC, Strike
Command cable
- SYG,
Secretary-General (UN)
- telcon, telephone
conversation
- UAMCE, Union for
African and Malagasy Economic Cooperation
- UAR, United Arab
Republic
- UEAC, Union des
Etats de l’Afrique Centrale (Congo)
- UK, United
Kingdom
- UKG, Government of
the United Kingdom
- UM, Union Miniere
(Congo)
- UMHK, Union Miniere
du Haut Katanga (Congo)
- UN, United
Nations
- UNDP, United Nations
Development Program
- UNGA, United Nations
General Assembly
- UNOC, United Nations
Operations, Congo
- UNP, Office of United
Nations Political Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs,
Department of State
- UNQTE,
unquote
- UNREP, United
Nations Representative
- UNSYG, Secretary
General of the United Nations
- UPI, United Press
International
- URTEL, urgent
telegram
- USAF, United States
Air Force
- USG, United States
Government
- USIA, United State
Information Agency
- USRO, United States
Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations and European Regional
Organizations
- USSR, Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics
- USUN, United States
Mission at the United Nations
- VDW, Frederick Van
der Walle
- VOA, Voice of
America
- VP, Vice
President
- WH, White House
- WHO, World Health
Organization