Abbreviations

• ADM, Admiral
• AFB, Air Force Base
• AGI, Intelligence Collection vessel (USSR)
• ASD, Assistant Secretary of Defense
• BGEN, Brigadier General
• BIB, Board for International Broadcasting
• C, Confidential; Office of the Counselor, Department of State
• CAPT, Captain
• CBM, Confidence Building Measure
• CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation
• CEMA, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (also COMCON, COMECON)
• CI, Current Intelligence
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CIEP, Council on International Economic Policy
• CIEPSM, Council on International Economic Policy Security Memorandum
• CINCENT, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Central Europe
• CINCEUR, Commander in Chief, Europe
• CINCUSAFE, Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces, Europe
• CINCUSAREUR, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Europe
• COCOM, Coordinating Committee on Export Controls
• COMECON, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (also COMCON, CEMA)
• COMINT, Communications Intelligence
• CSAF, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force
• CSCE, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• DA, Department of the Army
• DATT, Defense Attaché
• DC, District of Columbia
• DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DOD/CA, Department of Defense/Cost Analysis
• DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
• EC, European Community
• EE, Eastern Europe
• EO, Executive Order
• EPA, Environmental Protection Agency
• EPB, Economic Policy Board
• EPBSM, Economic Policy Board Study Memorandum
• ESC, European Security Conference
• EUCOM, United States European Command
• EUR, Bureau of European Affairs
• EXIM, Export-Import Bank
• FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• FMS, Foreign Military Sales
• FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
• FSO, Foreign Service Officer
• FSFA, Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs (Yugoslavia)
• GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
• GDR, German Democratic Republic
• GNP, Gross National Product
• GOR, Government of Romania
• GOY, Government of Yugoslavia
• IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
• ICC, See ICCS
• ICCS, International Commission of Control and Supervision in Vietnam
• IMF, International Monetary Fund
• ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JEC, Joint Economic Commission
• JNA, Jugoslovenska narodna armija (Yugoslav People’s Army)
• L, Legal Affairs, DOS
• LC, League of Communists (Yugoslavia)
• LCY, League of Communists of Yugoslavia
• LDC, Less Developed Countries
• L/PM, Legal Affairs DOS
• LTC, Lieutenant Colonel
• MBFR, Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
• MFN, Most Favored Nation
• MLM, Military Liaison Mission
• MOD, Minister of Defense
• MSA, Most Seriously Affected (Country)
• NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NCST, Romanian National Council for Science and Technology
• NDP, National Disclosure Policy
• NDPC, National Military Information Disclosure Policy Committee
• NFIB, National Foreign Intelligence Board
• NPG, Nuclear Planning Group, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSC, National Security Council
• NSDM, National Security Decision Memorandum
• NSSM, National Security Study Memorandum
• OASD, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
• OASD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• OPIC, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• PCI, Partito Comunista Italiano (Italian Communist Party)
• PDR, Processing Data Rate
• PL, Public Law
• PLO, Palestinian Liberation Organization
• PM, Political-Military Affairs
• POLAD, Political Advisor
• PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam
• PRGSVN, see PRG
• PZPR, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (United Polish Worker’s Party)
• QA, Quadripartite Agreement
• RCP, Romanian Communist Party
• RFE, Radio Free Europe
• RL, Radio Liberty
• S, Secret; Secretary
• SDR, Special Drawing Rights
• SECDEF, Secretary of Defense
• SED, Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschland (GDR)
• SFRY, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
• SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
• SIGINT, Signals Intelligence
• SOFO, Special Operations Field Office (U.S. Army, West Berlin)
• SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland (BRD, DDR)
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• SSBN, Subsurface Ship Ballistic Nuclear
• SSN, Ship Submersible Nuclear (Attack Submarine)
• TOW, Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (missile)
• UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• UN, United Nations
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UNSC, United Nations Security Council
• US, United States
• USA, United States Army; United States of America
• USAEUR, United States Army Europe
• USCOB, United States Commander, Berlin
• USELMLO, United States Element, LIVE OAK
• USG, United States Government
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USIS, United States Information Service
• USMLM, United States Military Liaison Mission
• USN, United States Navy
• USNATO, Series indicator for telegrams from the Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to the Department of State
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• USUN, United States Delegation to the United Nations
• VADM, Vice Admiral
• VIP, Very Important Person
• VOA, Voice of America
• WH, White House
• WHCA, White House Communications Agency
• WHO, World Health Organization
• ZSL, Zjednoczone Stronnictwo Ludowe (United People’s Party, Poland)
• Z, Greenwich Mean Time