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.

  • A–A, Office of Assistant Secretary of State Armour
  • AAF, Army Air Forces
  • ACA, Allied Control Authority for Germany
  • ACA, Allied Council for Austria
  • ACC, Allied Control Council
  • AEG, Allgemeine Eliktrizitäts Gesellschaft (General Electric Company)
  • AFL, American Federation of Labor
  • AG, Aktiengesellschaft
  • AGC, Document designation, American-British Coal Conversations, August 12–September 10, 1947
  • AGWar, Adjutant General, War Department
  • A–H, Office of Assistant Secretary of State John H. Hilldring
  • A–S, Office of Assistant Secretary of State Charles Saltzman
  • ATC, Austrian Treaty Commission
  • AusPolAd, United States Political Adviser for Austrian Affairs
  • BC, Division of British Commonwealth Affairs, Department of State
  • CA, Civil Affairs
  • CAD, Civil Affairs Division, War Department General Staff
  • CC, military message indicator
  • CDU, Christlich-Demokratische Union (Christian Democratic Union)
  • CE, Division of Central European Affairs, Department of State
  • CFM, Council of Foreign Ministers
  • CGT, Confédération Générale du Travail (General Federation of Labor)
  • CIC, Counter Intelligence Corps
  • CIG, Counter Intelligence Group
  • CINCEUR, Commander in Chief, European Command, United States Army
  • COMGENUSFA, Commanding General United States Forces in Austria
  • Cominform, Communist Information Bureau
  • Comintern, The Third Communist International
  • CORC, Coordinating Committee, Allied Control Authority for Germany
  • CP, Communist Party
  • C/S, Chief of Staff
  • DDSG, Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft (Danube Shipping Company)
  • Delsec, indicator for telegrams from the United States Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers, at times headed by the Secretary of State.
  • Dept, Department of State
  • Desp, Despatch
  • DP, Displaced person
  • DRE, Division of Research for Europe, Department of State
  • EAC, European Advisory Commission
  • ECE, Economic Commission for Europe
  • ECITO, European Central Inland Transport Organization
  • ECO, European Coal Organization
  • Econ, Economic Directorate, Allied Control Authority for Germany
  • Embtel, Embassy telegram
  • Emtel, Embassy telegram
  • ERP, European Recovery Program
  • Eucom, European Command, United States Army
  • FDGB, Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (Free German Trade Union Association)
  • FDJ, Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth)
  • FonMin, Foreign Minister
  • FonOff, Foreign Office
  • ForMin, Foreign Minister
  • GA, Division of German and Austrian Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • GA, General Assembly of the United Nations, see also UNGA
  • G–2, Intelligence section of the general staff of a large military unit
  • G.m.b.H., Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (limited liability company)
  • IARA, Inter-Allied Reparation Agency
  • Infotel, Information telegram
  • I.R.O., International Refugee Organization
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Kosmos, series indicator for telegrams from the United States Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers dealing with non-CFM business
  • KPD, Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (German Communist Party)
  • KRN, Krajowa Rada Narodowa (Polish National Council of the Homeland)
  • LDP, Liberal-Demokratische Partei (German Liberal Democratic Party)
  • Leg, Legation
  • Legsdesp, Legation despatch
  • Legtel, Legation telegram
  • Martel, series indicator for telegram from the Secretary of State while at the Fifth Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, London, November–December 1947
  • MEA, Mission for Economic Affairs, United States Embassy in London
  • MG, Military Government
  • Moskco, series indicator for telegrams to the United States Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers dealing with non-CFM business
  • MRP, Mouvement Républicain Populaire (French Political Party)
  • Mytel, My telegram
  • NOE, Division of Northern European Affairs, Department of State
  • OE, Division of Occupied Areas Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • OMGUS, Office of Military Government in Germany (United States)
  • Ourtel, Our telegram
  • P, Military message indicator
  • PL, Public Law
  • POL, Petroleum, oil, and lubricants
  • PolAd, Political Adviser
  • POW, Prisoner of War
  • RAD, Radio message
  • RDR, Reparations, Deliveries and Restitution
  • Reurtel, Regarding your telegram
  • R.F.C., Reconstruction Finance Corporation
  • RGR, Rassemblement des Gauches Républicaines (French Political Party)
  • SANACC, State – Army – Navy – Air Force Coordinating Committee
  • Secdel, indicator for telegrams to the United States Delegation to the Council of Foreign Ministers, at times headed by the Secretary of State
  • SED, Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
  • SHAEF, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
  • SMA, Sowjetische Militäradministration Deutschlands (Soviet Military Administration for Germany)
  • SMAD, see SMA
  • Sov, Soviet
  • SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (German Social Democratic Party)
  • SWN, State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee document designation
  • SWNCC, State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee
  • SX, Military message indicator
  • TC, Division of Language Services, Department of State
  • Telmar, series indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State while at the Fifth Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers at London, November–December 1947
  • TOPSEC, Top Secret
  • TT, telecommunications conference indicator
  • TUC, Trades Union Congress (British)
  • TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority
  • UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organzation
  • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
  • UNO, United Nations Organization
  • UNRRA, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
  • UP, United Press
  • URAD, Your radio message
  • Urtel, Your telegram
  • USDel, United States Delegation
  • USFA, United States Forces in Austria
  • USFET, United States Forces, European Theater
  • USIA, Upravlenye Sovetskovo Imushchestva v Avstrii (Administration for Soviet Property in Austria)
  • USIVA, see USIA
  • USPolAd, United States Political Adviser
  • VE Day, Victory in Europe Day (May 7–8, 1945)
  • VHB, very heavy bomber
  • War, War Department
  • WD, War Department
  • WDSCA, War Department Staff Civil Affairs
  • WE, Division of Western European Affairs, Department of State
  • WFTU, World Federation of Trade Unions
  • WX, military message indicator