Abbreviations and Terms

• ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AF/C, Office of Central African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AF/AFI, Office of Inter-African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AF/CM, Country Director for Central Africa, Malagasy and Mauritius, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AF/CW, Country Director for West Central Africa, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AF/E, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AF/RA, Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AFCC, Armed Forces Coordinating Committee (Ethiopia)
• AFDB, African Development Bank
• AID, Agency for International Development
• AMCIT, American citizen
• APIL, African People’s Independence League
• ASW, Anti-Submarine Warfare
• BNA, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• B/P, Balance of Payments
• BSO, Black September Organization
• BP, British Petroleum
• CAR, Central African Republic
• CCD, Conference of the Committee on Disarmament
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CILSS, Comité Inter-Etate pour la Lutte contre la Sécheresse au Sahel (Interstate Committee for the Fight against the Drought in the Sahel Region)
• CINCEUR, Commander-in-chief, Europe
• CINCUSNAVEUR, Commander-in-chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe
• CJCS, Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff
• CNO, Chief naval officer
• COMIDEASTFOR, Commander, Middle East Forces
• COMNAVTEL, Commander, Naval Telecommunications Command
• DAC, Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• DIRG, Ethiopian Military Junta (see EPMG)
• DIRNSA, Director of the National Security Agency
• DOD, Department of Defense
• EB, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
• ECA,Economic Commission for Africa (United Nations)
• ELF, Eritrean Liberation Front
• Emboff, Embassy Officer
• EPMG, Ethiopian Provisional Military Government
• EPRP, Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party
• EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• Exdis, Exclusive Distribution
• EXIM, Export-import
• FAA, Foreign Assistance Act
• FAO, Food and Agricultural Organization (United Nations)
• FCO, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom
• FLEC, Front of Liberation of the State of Cabinda
• FMG, Federal Military Government (Nigeria)
• FMS, Foreign Military Sales
• FMSA, Foreign Military Sales Act
• FNLA, Front National de Libération de l’Angola (National Front for the Liberation of Angola)
• FRELIMO, Mozambique Liberation Front
• FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
• FROLINAT, Front de la Liberation Nationale (National Liberation Front, Chad)
• GOF, Government of France
• GOIC, Government of the Ivory Coast
• GOK, Government of Kenya
• GOP, Government of Portugal
• GOS, Government of Sudan
• GOU, Government of Uganda
• GOZ, Government of Zaire
• GRAE, Government in Exile (Angola)
• GRB, Government of the Republic of Burundi
• GSDR, Government of the Somali Democratic Republic
• H, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of State
• HAK, Henry A. Kissinger
• HFAC, House (of Representatives) Foreign Affairs Committee
• HICOM, High Commissioner
• HIM, His Imperial Majesty (Ethiopia’s Haile Selassie)
• HM, His Majesty
• HMG, Her Majesty’s Government (UK)
• HQ, Headquarters
• IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
• ICFTU, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
• ICJ, International Court of Justice
• ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross
• IDA, International Development Association
• IEG, Imperial Ethiopian Government
• IEGF, Imperial Ethiopian Government Forces
• IFAD, International Fund for Agricultural Development
• IMF, International Monetary Fund
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/DDC, Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/RAF, Office of Research and Analysis for Africa, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• IRG, Interdepartmental Regional Group
• IRG/AF, Interdepartmental Regional Group, Africa
• ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• JANAF, Joint Army, Navy, Air Force
• JCA, Joint Church Aid
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum
• JTF, Joint Task Force
• KANU, Kenya African National Union
• L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
• L/AF, Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for African Affairs, Department of State
• LDC, Lesser Developed Country
• LGTA, General League of Angolan Workers
• L/UNA, Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs, Department of State
• M, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Management
• MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
• MAP, Military Assistance Program
• MATS, Military Air Transport Service
• MFA, Movimento das Forças Armadas (Armed Forces Movement, Portugal)
• MIG, A.I. Mikoyan-M.I. Gurevich (Soviet fighter aircraft named for designers Mikoyan and Gurevich)
• MilGovs, Military Governments
• MinDef, Minister of Defense
• MinExtAff, Minister of External Affairs
• MinInfo, Minister of Information
• MOD, Ministry of Defense (UK)
• MPLA, Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola)
• MTAT, Military Technical Advisory Team (Zaire)
• NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• NAG, Non-Aligned Group
• NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• NEP, North Eastern Province (Somalia)
• NER, North East Region (Kenya)
• NFD, Northern Frontier District (Kenya)
• NFZ, Nuclear Free Zone
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• NIO, National Intelligence Office
• NLC, National Liberation Council (Ghana)
• NMG, National Military Government (Nigeria)
• Noforn, No Foreign Dissemination
• NOTAL, not received by all addressees
• NPP, National Policy Paper
• NPZ, Non-proliferation zone
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSC, National Security Council
• NSDM, National Security Decision Memorandum
• NSSM, National Security Study Memorandum
• OASD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• OAU, Organization of African Unity
• OCAM, Organization Commune Africaine et Malagache (African-Malagasy Common Organization)
• OCI, Office of Current Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
• ODMA, Office of the Director of Military Assistance, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• OEP, Office of Emergency Planning
• OMB, Office of Management and Budget
• ONE, Office of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
• OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• OPIC, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• P, Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• PA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
• PAC, Pan African Congress
• PAIGC, African Party for the Independence of Portuguese Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands
• PC, Peace Corps
• PDRY, People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen
• PCC/ZAPU, People’s Caretaker Council/Zimbabwe African People’s Union
• P.L., Public Law
• PLO, Palestine Liberation Organization
• PM, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Department of State
• PMAC, Provisional Military Administrative Council (Ethiopia)
• PNG, persona non grata
• POL, petroleum, oil, lubricants
• PRC, People’s Republic of China
• PriMin, Prime Minister
• RAF, Royal Air Force
• Reftel, reference telegram
• Reps, representatives
• RF, Rhodesian Front
• RG, Record Group
• RSA, Republic of South Africa
• RTV, Radio and Television International, Inc.
• S, Office of the Secretary of State
• SDRs, Special Drawing Rights
• SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State (or his delegation) to the Department of State
• Septel, separate telegram
• SIG, Senior Interdepartmental Group
• SIGINT, Signals Intelligence
• SITREP, Situation Report
• SMC, Supreme Military Council (Nigeria)
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• S/P, Counselor and Chairman of the Policy Planning Council, Department of State
• SRC, Supreme Revolutionary Council (Somalia)
• SRG, Senior Review Group
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• STRATCOM, Strategic Command
• STRIKECOM, Strike Command
• STRIKEOPS, Strike Operations
• SWA, South West Africa
• SWAPO, South West Africa People’s Organization
• SYG, Secretary-General
• SYL, Somali Youth League
• Tenneco, Tennessee Division of the Chicago Corporation
• TFAI, Territoire Francais des Afars et Issas (French Territories of Affars and Issas)
• Tosec, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Secretary of State (or his delegation)
• U, Office of the Under Secretary of State
• UAMCE, Union for African and Malagasy Economic Cooperation
• UDENAMO, Uniao Democratica Nacional de Mocambique (Democratic National Union of Mozambique)
• UK, United Kingdom
• UKG, United Kingdom Government
• ULC, United Labour Congress (Nigeria)
• UN, United Nations
• UNCTAD, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• UNDP, United Nations Development Program
• UNECA, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UNITA, Uniao Nacional para e Independencia Total de Angola (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola)
• UNP, Office of United Nations Political Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• UNRep, United Nations Representative
• UNSC, United Nations Security Council
• UNSYG, United Nations Secretary-General
• UPA, Uniao das Populacoes de Angola (Union of Angolan Peoples)
• UPC, Ugandan People’s Congress
• UPGA, United Progressive Grand Alliance (Nigeria)
• URTZ, United Republic of Tanzania
• USAF, United States Air Force
• USCINCEUR, U.S. Commander in Chief, Europe
• USDA, United States Department of Agriculture
• USG, United States Government
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USIS, United States Information Service
• USN, United States Navy
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• UST, United States Treaties and Other International Agreements
• USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
• VOA, Voice of America
• VOLAGs, volunteer agencies
• VP, Vice President
• WH, White House
• WHO, World Health Organization
• W(A)SAG, Washington Special Actions Group
• Z, Zulu, Greenwich Mean Time (for Department of State telegrams)
• ZAMISH, U.S. Military Mission (Zaire)