Abbreviations
- History of the Foreign
Relations Series - Historical Documents
Toward “Thorough, Accurate, and Reliable”: A History of the
Foreign Relations of the United States Series
Abbreviations
- A, Bureau of Administration, Department of
State
- AHA, American Historical Association
- APSA, American Political Science Association
- ASIL, American Society of International Law
- CDC (also A/CDC),
Classification/Declassification Center, Bureau of Administration, Department
of State
- CDF, Department of State Central Decimal File, RG
59, NARA
- CFPF, Department of State Central Foreign Policy
File, RG 59, NARA
- CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
- CREST, CIA Records Search Tool, electronic database
of released CIA records located at the National Archives building in College
Park, MD
- CSI, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central
Intelligence Agency
- DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
- DO, Directorate of Operations, Central Intelligence
Agency
- DOD, Department of Defense
- DOS, Department of State
- DP, Division of Publications (see appendix D)
- DS, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Department of
State
- EAP, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
Department of State
- EDC, European Defense Community
- EO, (Presidential) Executive Order
- EAP, Bureau East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
Department of State
- EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of
State
- FAIM, Foreign Affairs Information Management
Center, Department of State
- FAIM/PS, Publishing Services Division, Department
of State
- FCO, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United
Kingdom
- FE, Division of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of
State
- FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of
the United States
- FGI, foreign government information
- FO, Foreign Office, United Kingdom
- FOIA, Freedom of Information Act
- FMP (also M/FMP), Bureau of
Financial and Management Policy, reporting to the Under Secretary of State
for Management, Department of State
- FPC, Office of Freedom of Information, Privacy, and
Classification Review, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Department of
State
- FPC/HDR (also HDR),
Historical Documents Review Division within the Office of Freedom of
Information, Privacy, and Classification Review
- FRUS,
Foreign Relations of the United States
- GOJ, Government of Japan
- GPO, Government Printing Office
(1861–present)
- H, Bureau of Legislative Affairs, Department of
State
- H. Doc., House Document
- H. Rpt., House Report
- HA, Office of the Historical Adviser (see appendix D)
- HAC, Historical Advisory Committee (full title from
1958–1978: Advisory Committee on Foreign Relations of the
United States; after 1978: Advisory Committee on Historical
Diplomatic Documentation), advisory body to the Department of State
- HD, Historical Division (see appendix D)
- HED, House Executive Document
- HLP, High Level Panel
- HMG, Her (or His) Majesty’s Government (United
Kingdom)
- HO, Historical Office, Bureau of Public Affairs,
Department of State, or Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs,
Department of State (see appendix D)
- HRP, Historical Review Panel, advisory body to the
Director of Central Intelligence
- INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
- ISOO, Information Security Oversight Office (U.S.
Government)
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the
United States
- L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of
State
- M, Under Secretary of State for Management,
Department of State
- MO (also M/MO), Management
Operations, reporting to Under Secretary of State for Management, Department
of State
- MOU, memorandum of understanding
- MP (also M/MP), Management
Policy, reporting to Under Secretary of State for Management, Department of
State
- NARA, National Archives and Records Administration,
United States
- NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NCCPH, National Coordinating Committee for the
Promotion of History
- NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of
State
- NSC, National Security Council
- OAH, Organization of American Historians
- OSS, Office of Strategic Services
- P, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
(see appendix D)
- PA, Office of Public Affairs, Department of State;
after 1957, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State (see appendix D)
- PB, (also PBR) Division of
Publications, Bureau of Administration, Department of State
- RE, Division of Research and Publications,
Department of State (see appendix D)
- RG, Record Group
- RP, Division of Research and Publications,
Department of State (see appendix D)
- S. Doc., Senate Document
- SAS, State Archiving System, electronic database
used by the Department of State for electronic cables
- SED, Senate Executive Document
- Ser, Serial
- SHAFR, Society for Historians of American Foreign
Relations
- SR (also CDC/SR), Office of
Systematic Review, Classification/Declassification Center, Bureau of
Administration, Department of State
- UK, United Kingdom
- UKNA, National Archives, United Kingdom
(Kew)
- USG, United States Government
- WTC, War Time Conference
