J, Office of the Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs
JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Memorandum
JEC, Joint Economic Commission
JGS, Joint General Staff, Republic of
Vietnam Armed Forces
JUSMAG, Joint United States
Military Assistance Group
KAF, Khmer Air Force
KC, Khmer Communists
KI, Khmer insurgents
L, Office of the Legal Adviser,
Department of State
Limdis, limited distribution
LO, Laos
LOC, lines of communication
LPF, Laotian Patriotic Front,
political arm of the Pathet Lao
LST, Landing Ship, Tanks
M–16, U.S. military field rifle
MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory
Group
MACV, Military Assistance Command,
Vietnam
MAP, Military Assistance
Program
MASF, military assistance
service-funded
MEDT, Military Equipment Delivery
Team
MEDTC, Military Equipment Delivery
Team, Cambodia
MFA, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
MIA, missing in action
MiG, Soviet-built fighter
aircraft
MR, Military Region; Government of
Vietnam divided the country into four zones for military and administrative
purposes; MR1 contained the five northernmost provinces of South Vietnam,
MR2 included provinces in the central and north central sections, MR3 was
made up of the south central part of the country and included Saigon, and
MR4 in the Mekong Delta held the rest of the country; sometimes an MR was
also called a Corps Tactical Zone
MSAP, Multi-Services Access
Platform
MSC, Military Sealift Command
NATO, North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
NCNRC, National Committee for
National Reconciliation and Concord
NIC, National Intelligence
Council
NIE, National Intelligence
Estimate
NIO/SEA, National Intelligence
Officer, Southeast Asia
NKP, Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air
Force Base
NLF, National Liberation Front
NM, nautical mile
NOA, New Obligational Authority
Nodis, no distribution
Noforn, no dissemination to foreign
nationals
Notal, not all (telegram A,
referenced in telegram B, was not sent to all the recipients of telegram
B)
NSA, National Security Agency
NSC, National Security Council
NSCIG, National Security Council,
Interdepartmental Group
NSC–U/S, National Security Council,
Under Secretaries’ Committee
NSDM, National Security Decision
Memorandum
NSSM, National Security Study
Memorandum
NVA, North Vietnamese Army
NVN, North Vietnam
OASD/ISA, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
OBE, overtaken by events
OCI, Office of Current Intelligence,
Central Intelligence Agency
OD, ordinance disposal
ODDI, Office of the Deputy Director
for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
OECD, Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development
OJSC, Office of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff
O&M, operation &
maintenance
OMB, Office of Management and
Budget
ONE, Office of National Estimates,
Central Intelligence Agency
OPIC, Overseas Private Investment
Corporation
OSD, Office of the Secretary of
Defense
OSD/ISA, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
OUSD, Office of the Under Secretary
of Defense
P, President
PAA, Pan-American Airlines
PACAF, Pacific Air Force (United
States)
PACOM, Pacific Command (United
States)
para, paragraph
Paris Channel, Secret channel
through which the White House sent and received messages to and from the
North Vietnamese in Paris; the Air Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris,
Colonel Georges R. Guay, ran the
channel for the White House
PGNU, Provisional Government of
National Union (Laos)
PIO, Public Information Officer
PL, Pathet Lao; Public Law
PL–480, Public Law-480, food
assistance
PM, Prime Minister
POL, petroleum, oil, and lubricants;
political
POLAD, Political Adviser
POW, prisoner of war
PRC, People’s Republic of China
Pres, President
Private channel,seeParis Channel
PRG, Provisional Revolutionary
Government, political wing of the South Vietnamese Communist movement,
replaced the NLF, but terms often used
interchangeably
PriMin, Prime Minister
psyops, psychological
operations
QR, Quota Restriction
QTE, quote
RECPT, receipt
reftel, reference telegram
rep, representative
res, resolution (United
Nations)
RG, Record Group
RIF, reduction in force
RLG, Royal Lao Government
RN,Richard Nixon
RNC, Republican National
Committee
ROC, Republic of China
ROKAF, Republic of Korea Air
Force
ROKFV, Republic of Korea Forces,
Vietnam
ROKG, Republic of Korea
Government
rpt, repeat
RTG, Royal Thai Government
RVN, Republic of Vietnam (South
Vietnam)
RVNAF, Republic of Vietnam, armed
forces
S, Office of the Secretary of State;
Secret
S/P, Policy Planning Council,
Department of State
S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department
of State
SAM, surface-to-air missile
SAR, search and recovery
SEA, Southeast Asia
SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization
SecDef, Secretary of Defense
SecState, Secretary of
State
Secto, series indicator for
telegrams from the Secretary of State or his party to the Department of
State
Secy Gen, Secretary General
(United Nations)
Secy, Secretary of State
Septel, separate telegram
SIG, Senior Interdepartmental Group
(National Security Council)
SitRep, Situation Report
SNIE, Special National Intelligence
Estimate
SR–71, U.S. surveillance
aircraft
SRF, Selective Reserve Force
SRG, Senior Review Group (National
Security Council)
SVN, South Vietnam
TCN, third country national
TDY, Temporary Duty
Telcon, telephone
conversation
Tohak, series designator for
telegrams to Henry A. Kissinger
Tosec, series designator for
telegrams to the Secretary of State when he or she is traveling
