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.

  • AFL, Anti-Fascist League (Burma)
  • AFP, French Press Agency
  • AFPFL, Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League (Burma)
  • AFWESPAC, Army Forces Western Pacific
  • A–H, Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas (Hilldring)
  • AMG, American Military Government (Korea)
  • AmPolAd, American Political Adviser
  • ANZAC, Australia—New Zealand Army Corps
  • AP, Associated Press
  • ATC, Air Transport Command
  • bde, brigade
  • CAD, Civil Affairs Division, War Department
  • CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation
  • CFM, Council of Foreign Ministers
  • CG, Commanding General
  • CGT, Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labor, French)
  • CIA, Constitution Investigation Association, Japan
  • CIC, Counter Intelligence Corps
  • CINCAFPAC, Commander in Chief, Army Forces in Pacific
  • ComGen USAFIK, Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces in Korea
  • ConGen, Consul General
  • CP, Communist Party, or Division of Commercial Policy, Department of State
  • CSAP, Combined Shipping Adjustment Board
  • 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 United Nations
  • Dept, Department of State
  • Deptel, Department’s telegram
  • DMH, Dong Minh Hoi (Vietnamese political party)
  • EE, Division of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State
  • Emb, Embassy
  • Embtel, Embassy’s telegram
  • ESS, Economic and Scientific Section (GHQ, SCAP, Tokyo)
  • FBA, Federation of Bar Associations, Japan
  • FE, Office of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • FEAC, Far Eastern Advisory Commission
  • FEC, Far Eastern Commission
  • FIC, French Indochina
  • FLC, Foreign Liquidation Commissioner, Department of State
  • FM, Foreign Minister
  • FonMins, Foreign Ministers
  • FonOff, Foreign Office
  • FSO, Foreign Service Officer
  • GA, (UN) General Assembly
  • GHQ, General Headquarters
  • GOB, Government of Burma
  • GOC, General Officer Commanding
  • HC, U.S. High Commissioner (Philippines)
  • HMG, His (Britannic) Majesty’s Government
  • IARA, Inter-Allied Reparations Agency
  • I.C.S., Indian Civil Service (British, India–Burma)
  • IEFC, International Emergency Food Council
  • Indo, Indonesian
  • Info, Information
  • Infotel, information telegram
  • Int, international
  • JC, Joint Commission (U.S.—U.S.S.R.), Korea
  • JA, Division of Japanese Affairs, Department of State
  • Jap, Japan or Japanese
  • JCAC, Joint Civil Affairs Committee
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JK, Division of Japanese and Korean Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • ky, administrative district in French Indochina (e.g., Cochin-China)
  • Le, Legal Adviser’s Office, Department of State
  • LST, landing ship tank
  • MG, Military Government
  • MID, Military Intelligence Division, War Department
  • MoF, Ministry of Food
  • MPAJU, Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Union
  • MRP, Mouvement Républicain Populaire (French political party)
  • NAC, National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems
  • 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
  • NOE, Division of Northern European Affairs, Department of State
  • OPD, Operations Division, War Department
  • ourad, our radiogram
  • PACUSA, Pacific Air Command, U.S. Army
  • PCI, Indochinese Communist Party
  • PG, Provisional Government (Korea)
  • PI, Division of Philippine Affairs, Department of State
  • PolAd, Political Adviser
  • PR, Division of Protocol, Department of State
  • RAF, Royal Air Force (United Kingdom)
  • reps, representatives
  • RFC, Reconstruction Finance Corporation
  • SACMED, Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean
  • SACSEA, Supreme Allied Commander, Southeast Asia
  • SC, (UN) Security Council
  • SCAP, Supreme Commander, Allied Powers, Japan
  • Scapin, SCAP instruction
  • SEA, Division of Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • SEAC, Southeast Asia Command
  • Secdel, Indicator for telegrams to the United States Delegations to the Council of Foreign Ministers, or the Paris Peace Conference, at times headed by the Secretary of State
  • Sov, Soviet Union
  • SWNCC, State—War—Navy Coordinating Committee
  • T/O, table of organization
  • UMA, United Maritime Authority
  • UNDel, indicator for telegrams to the United States Delegation; at the United Nations
  • UNO, United Nations Organization
  • UNRRA, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
  • UP, United Press
  • urtel, your telegram
  • USAFIK, U.S. Army forces in Korea
  • USCC, U.S. Commercial Company
  • USDel, U.S. delegation
  • USGA, U.S. delegation to United Nations General Assembly
  • USI, United States of Indonesia
  • V–J Day, The day of Japanese capitulation
  • WARCOS, War Department Chief of Staff
  • WE, Division of Western European Affairs, Department of State
  • WFTU, World Federation of Trade Unions