Office of the Historian

List of abbreviations, symbols, and code names

Editor’s Note.—This list does not include standard abbreviations in common Usage; unusual abbreviations of rare occurrence which are clarified at appropriate points; and those abbreviations and contractions which, although uncommon, are Understandable from the context.

  • ACC, Allied Control Commission
  • AGRI, Department of Agriculture
  • AIOC, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
  • Amdel, American Delegation (at the Council of Foreign Ministers or at the United Nations)
  • Amfoge, Allied Mission to Observe the Greek Elections
  • Amfoge II, Allied Mission to Observe the Revision of Greek Electoral Lists
  • AmLeg, American Legation
  • AP, Associated Press
  • ARAMCO, Arabian American Oil Company
  • BMA, British Military Authority
  • CCP, Cabinet Committee on Palestine
  • CFM, Council of Foreign Ministers
  • cirtel, circular telegram
  • COMC, Department of Commerce
  • ComGenUSFA, Commanding General, United States Forces in Austria
  • ComGenUSFET, Commanding General, United States Forces in the European Theater
  • DelAm, American Delegation (at the Council of Foreign Ministers)
  • Delsec, Indicator for ‘telegrams from the United States Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers, or the Paris Peace Conference, at times headed by the Secretary of State
  • DelUN, indicator for telegrams from the United States Delegation at the London meetings of the United Nations
  • Deptel, Department of State telegram
  • DP, Displaced persons
  • EA, Ethniki Allilengyi (National Solidarity), the EAM relief organization in Greece
  • EAM, Ethnikon Apeleftherotikon Metopon (National Liberation Front), a resistance group controlled by the Communist Party of Greece
  • eco, economic
  • ECOSOC, Economic and Social Council (UN)
  • EE, Division of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State
  • ELAS, Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (National People’s Liberation Army), the military arm of EAM in Greece
  • Embtel, Embassy telegram
  • EUR, Office of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Eximbank, Export-Import Bank of Washington
  • FLC, (Office of the) Foreign Liquidation Commissioner, Department of State
  • FO, Foreign Office
  • FonAff, Foreign Affairs
  • FonMin, Foreign Minister
  • FonOff, Foreign Office
  • ForMin, Foreign Minister
  • GA, General Assembly (UN)
  • IARA, Inter-Allied Reparation Agency
  • Int Bank, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • Interbank, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • IO, Reference and Documents Section, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • IPC, Iraq Petroleum Company
  • JA, Jewish Agency for Palestine
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • KKE, Kommunistikon Komma Ellados, the Communist Party of Greece
  • kms, kilometers
  • Le, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
  • MA, Military Attaché
  • ME, Division of Middle Eastern Affairs, Department of State; or Middle East
  • MEI, Division of Middle Eastern and Indian Affairs, Department of State
  • MESC, Middle East Supply Center
  • MID, Military Intelligence Division (War Department)
  • mytel, my telegram
  • NAC, National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems
  • NE, Division of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • NEA, Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs, Department of State
  • Niact, Communications indicator requiring attention by the recipient at any hour of the day or night
  • NOF, Narodnoosloboditelniot front (National Liberation Front) successor to SNOF in 1946
  • OFD, Office of Financial and Development Policy, Department of State
  • OFLC, Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner, Department of State
  • OSS, Office of Strategic Services
  • ourtel, our telegram
  • PAL, Palestine
  • PED, Petroleum Division, Department of State
  • PPA, Parti du Peuple Algérien (Algerian People’s Party)
  • PriMin, Prime Minister
  • RAF, Royal Air Force (British)
  • SAG, Saudi Arabian Government
  • SC, Security Council (UN)
  • SE, Division of South European Affairs, Department of State
  • Secdel, indicator for telegrams to the United States Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers, or the Paris Peace Conference, at times headed by the Secretary of State
  • SNOF, Slavomakedonski narodnoosloboditelniot front (Slav-Macedonian National Liberation Front), a pro-Yugoslav partisan movement operating in Greek Macedonia
  • SPA, Office of Special Political Affairs, Department of State
  • SSU, Strategic Services Unit, War Department
  • SWN, State-War-Navy (Departments)
  • SWNCC, State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee
  • SYG, Secretary-General (UN)
  • TWA, Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc.
  • UNdel, indicator for telegrams from the United States Delegation at the London meetings of the United Nations; refers also to the Delegation
  • Under Sec, Under Secretary of State
  • UNO, United Nations Organization
  • UNRRA, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
  • UP, United Press
  • ur, your
  • urtel, your telegram
  • USdel, United States Delegation
  • USFET, United States Forces in the European Theater
  • USG, United States Government
  • X (Xites), Royalist terrorist organizations in Greece
  • USPolAd, United States Political Adviser for Germany, at Berlin
  • ZOA, Zionist Organization of America