Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume
XXXII, SALT I, 1969–1972
Abbreviations and Terms
AAM, air-to-air
missile
ABM, anti-ballistic
missile
ACDA, Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency
ACDA/D, Office of
the Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACDA/DD, Office of
the Deputy Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACDA/IR
International Relations Bureau, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
AD, assured
destruction
AEC, Atomic Energy
Commission
AG, Attorney
General
AP, Associated
Press
ARA, Bureau of
Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
ASA, anti-submarine
aircraft
ASD (A), Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Administration)
ASD (I), Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Intelligence)
ASD (SA), Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis)
ASM, air-to-surface
missile
ASW, antisubmarine
warfare
backchannel, a
method of communication outside normal bureaucratic procedure; the White
House, for instance, used “backchannel” messages to bypass the Department of State
BOB, Bureau of the
Budget
BMD, ballistic missile
defense
BMEWS, ballistic
missile early warning system
BNSP, basic national
security policy
BR, biological
(bacteriological) research
BRDP, Blue Ribbon
Defense Panel
BW, biological
(bacteriological) warfare
CASP, Country
Analysis and Strategy Paper
CBW, chemical and
biological (bacteriological) warfare
CC–CPSU, Central
Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CCD, Conference of the
Committee on Disarmament
CCP, Consolidated
Cryptologic Program
CDIP, Consolidated
Defense Intelligence Program
CEA, Council of
Economic Advisers
CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
CIEP, Council on
International Economic Policy
CIP, Consolidated
Intelligence Program
CL, classified
COMINT,
communications intelligence
Comite,
committee
COMSEC,
communications security
CONUS, Continental
United States
CPR, Chinese People’s
Republic
CPSU, Communist Party
of the Soviet Union
CTB, Comprehensive
Test Ban
CW, chemical
warfare
CY, calendar
year
D/DCI/IC, Deputy to
the Director of Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community
D/DCI/NIPE,
Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for National Intelligence
Programs Evaluation
DEFCON, defense
readiness condition
D/INR, Director,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
D/NRO, Director,
National Reconnaissance Office
DCI, Director of
Central Intelligence
DCID, Director of
Central Intelligence Directive
DCM, Deputy Chief of
Mission
DD/P, Deputy Director
for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
DD/S&T, Deputy
Director for Science and Technology, Central Intelligence Agency
DDC, Office of the
Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
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
DDR&E, Director
of Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense
Del, delegate
Dept,
Department
Deptel, Department
of State telegram
DG, Director General of
the Foreign Service, Department of State
DIA, Defense
Intelligence Agency
DIRNSA, Director,
National Security Agency
DIS, Defense
Investigative Service
Dissem,
dissemination
DOD, Department of
Defense
Dog House
Radars, large phased array radars deployed near Moscow at
Naro-Fominsk that functioned much like the Perimeter Acquisition Radar of
the U.S. Sentinel/Safeguard ABM system.
DOS, Department of
State
DPRC, Defense Program
Review Committee
E, Bureau of Economic
Affairs, Department of State; John Ehrlichman
ELINT, electronic
intelligence
ELR, Elliot L.
Richardson
ENDC, Eighteen-Nation
Disarmament Committee
ENDC/CCD
Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee Conference of the Committee on
Disarmament
Endo-atmospheric penetration aid,
type
of interceptor that distinguishes a target in the endo-atmospheric
range
EOB, Executive Office
Building
EPA, Environmental
Protection Agency
EST, Eastern Standard
Time
EUR, Bureau of
European Affairs, Department of State
EURATOM, European
Atomic Energy Community
Exdis, exclusive
distribution
Exo-atmospheric
penaid,
type
of interceptor that distinguishes a target in the exo-atmospheric
range.
F.R.,Federal Register
FBA, forward based
aircraft
FBIS, Foreign
Broadcast Information Service
FOBS, fractional
orbital bombardment missile systems
FonMin, Foreign
Ministry
FonOff, Foreign
Office
FRC, Federal Records
Center
FRG, Federal Republic
of Germany
FSO, Foreign Service
Officer
FY, fiscal year
FYI, for your
information
G, Deputy Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs
GAC, General Advisory
Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament
G/PM, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
GC, General
Counsel
H, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations
HAK, Henry A.
Kissinger
Henhouse, Soviet
large phased-array, early warning radars
HSD, hard site
defense
HUMINT, human
intelligence
IAEA, International
Atomic Energy Agency
ICBM,
inter-continental ballistic missile
ICC, International
Control Commission
ICJ, International
Court of Justice
IDA, Institute for
Defense Analysis
IG, Interdepartmental
Group
IG/EUR,
Interdepartmental Group for Europe
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
INR/IL, Intelligence
Liaison, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
IO, Bureau of
International Organization Affairs, Department of State
IOC, initial
operational capability
IPMG,
Interdepartmental Political-Military Group
IR, intermediate range
ballistic missile
IRBM, intermediate
range ballistic missile
IRG, Interdepartmental
Regional Group
ISA, Office of
International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
J/PM, Office of the
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
JCS, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
K, Kissinger
L, Legal Adviser,
Department of State
LANFZ, Latin
American Nuclear Free Zone
Limdis, Limited
Distribution
LOC, lines of
communication
LTBT, Limited Test
Ban Treaty
M, Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs, Department of State
PM, Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
PM/ISP, Office of
International Security Policy and Planning, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
PMG, Politico-Military
Group
PNE, peaceful nuclear
explosion
Polad, political
adviser
Poseidon C–3,
submarine launched ballistic missile designed to carry twice the payload of
the Polaris A–3 with improved accuracy
PPBS,
Planning-Programming-Budgeting System
PRC, People’s Republic
of China
Pres,
President
PSAC, President’s
Science Advisory Committee
R&D, research and
development
RDT&E, research,
development, test, and evaluation
reftel, reference
telegram
RG, record group;
review group
RMN, Richard M.
Nixon
RN, Richard M.
Nixon
RV, reentry
vehicle
S, Office of the
Secretary of State
S/P, Policy Planning
Council or Staff, Department of State
S/PC, Planning and
Coordination Staff, Department of State
S/S, Executive
Secretariat, Department of State
S/S–I, Information
Section, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
SAC, Strategic Air
Command
SALT, Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks
SAM, Surface to Air
Missile
SBBM, sea-based
ballistic missile
SC, Security
Council
SCI, Office of
International Scientific and Technological Affairs, Department of
State
SEA, Southeast
Asia
SecDef, Secretary
of Defense
Septel, separate
telegram
SFRC, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee
SG, Safeguard
SIG, Senior
Interdepartmental Group
SIGINT, signals
intelligence
SIPRI, Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute
Skybolt,
air-launched ballistic missile
SL, submarine
launcher
SLBM, submarine
launched ballistic missile
SLCM, submarine
launched cruise missile
SNIE, Special
National Intelligence Estimate
SOP, standard
operating procedure
SOSUS, sound
surveillance undersea system
SOV, Office of Soviet
Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State; Country
Director, Soviet Union, Bureau of European Affairs
SRG, Senior Review
Group
SS–9, Soviet ICBM the high accuracy of which made it a
threat to U.S. ICBMs
SS–11, Soviet ICBM; Soviet counterpart to the U.S. Minuteman system in quantity, size, and
purpose, believed effective only against soft targets
SSBN, nuclear
ballistic missile submarine
SSN, nuclear
submarine
SSR, Soviet Socialist
Republic
SU, Soviet Union
SUBROC, submarine
rocket
SWWA,
Stop-Where-We-Are proposal of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency on
SALT
SYG, Secretary
General, United Nations
Tallin, a system of
radars and interceptors believed to have had ballistic missile defense
capabilities. Named for the Estonian capital where it first appeared
TASS, Telegrafnoye
Agentsvo Sovetskogo Soiuza (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union)
TEL,
transporter-erector-launcher
TIAS, Treaties and
other International Acts Series
Titan, a family of
weapons and the first U.S. two-stage ICBM and first underground silo-based ICBM
Try Add
Radars, mechanically steered battle-management missile
guidance radars; A component of the Moscow ABM-system
TS, Top Secret
U, Office of the Under
Secretary of State; Under Secretary of State
