Abbreviations and Terms

• AD/ORE, Assistant Director for Reports and Estimates
• ADPC, Assistant Director for Policy Coordination, CIA
• ADSO, Assistant Director for Special Operations (CIG and CIA)
• AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
• AFSA, Armed Forces Security Agency
• AFSS, Air Force Security Service
• ARC, Air Resupply and Communications
• ARPA, Advanced Research Projects Agency
• ASA, Army Security Agency
• ATIC, Air Technical Intelligence Center
• BOB, Bureau of the Budget
• BW, biological warfare
• CA, covert action; also circular airgram
• CAS, Cleared American Source
• CAT, Civil Air Transport
• CE, Division of Central European Affairs, Department of State; also Counter-Espionage
• CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
• CERP, Combined Economic Reporting Program
• CG, Commanding General
• CI, Counter-intelligence
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CID, Criminal Investigative Division; also Counter-intelligence Division
• CIG, Central Intelligence Group
• CO, Commanding Officer
• COAPS, Coordination, Operations and Policy/Planning Staff
• COMINT, Communications Intelligence
• CP, Communist party
• CRITIC, Critical Intelligence Communications
• CSP, Chief, Special Projects Division, Office of Policy Coordination
• CW, chemical warfare
• DCD, Domestic Contacts Division
• DCI, Director of Central Intelligence (CIG and CIA)
• DCID, Director of Central Intelligence Directive
• DDCI, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (CIG and CIA)
• DDA, Deputy Director for Administration
• DDC, Deputy Director for Coordination
• DDI, Deputy Director for Intelligence
• DDO, Deputy Director for Operations
• DDP, Deputy Director for Plans
• DD/S&T, Deputy Director for Science and Technology
• DIRNSA, Director, National Security Agency
• DNI, Director of Naval Intelligence
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DPD, Development Projects Division
• E & E, escape and evasion
• ECA, Economic Cooperation Administration
• ECM, electronic counter-measures
• ELINT, electronic intelligence
• ES/NSC, Executive Secretary, National Security Council
• EUCOM, European Command
• EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• FBID, Foreign Broadcast Information Division
• FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
• FE, Office of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• FEA, Foreign Economic Administration
• FEC, Free Europe Committee
• FI, Foreign Intelligence
• FOA, Foreign Operations Administration
• FSO, Foreign Service Officer
• FSR, Foreign Service Reserve
• FTX, field training exercise
• FY, fiscal year
• G–2, intelligence section of divisional or higher staff
• G–5, civil affairs section of divisional or higher staff
• GAO, General Accounting Office
• GCHQ, General Communications Headquarters (UK)
• GMAIC, Guided Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee
• GMIC, Guided Missile Intelligence Committee
• HICOG, High Commissioner for Germany
• HUMINT, human intelligence
• IAB, Intelligence Advisory Board
• IAC, Intelligence Advisory Committee
• IAD, Acquisition and Distribution Division, Office of Research and Intelligence, Department of State
• IBD, International Broadcasting Division
• ICA, International Cooperation Administration
• ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile
• ICIS, Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security
• ICS, Interdepartmental Coordinating Staff; also Intelligence Community Staff
• IDP, Initial deployment plan
• IFIO, International Foreign Information Organization
• IFIS, International Foreign Information Staff
• IG, Inspector General
• IIC, Interdepartmental Intelligence Committee
• IS, Intelligence Staff
• ISA, International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• J–2, JCS intelligence organization
• JAEIC, Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee
• JANIS, Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Studies
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JIC, Joint Intelligence Committee; also Joint Intelligence Center
• JIS, Joint Intelligence Staff
• JISPD, Joint Intelligence Studies Publication Board
• JOT, junior officer trainee
• JRC, Joint Reconnaissance Center
• JRDB, Joint Research and Development Board
• JSPD, Joint Subsidiary Plans Division
• JTIS, Joint Technical Intelligence Subcommittee
• L, Legal Adviser, Department of State
• MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
• MI, military intelligence
• MID, Military Intelligence Division, Department of the Army
• MIS, Military Intelligence Staff, War Department General Staff; also military intelligence service
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NCFE, National Committee for a Free Europe
• NIA, National Intelligence Authority
• NIC, National Indications Center of the IAC Watch Committee
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• NIS, National Intelligence Survey; also National Intelligence Summary
• NPIC, National Photographic Interpretation Center
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSC, National Security Council
• NSCID, National Security Council Intelligence Directive
• NSG, Navy Security Group
• NSRB, National Security Resources Board
• NTPC, National Technical Processing Center
• OB, order of battle
• OCB, Operations Coordination Board
• OCD, Office of Collection and Dissemination
• OCI, Office of Current Intelligence
• ODA, Office of Departmental Administration, Bureau of Administration, Department of State
• ODM, Office of Defense Mobilization
• OIR, Office of Intelligence Research
• OLI, Office of Libraries and Intelligence Acquisition
• ONE, Office of National Estimates
• ONI, Office of Naval Intelligence, Department of Navy
• ONR, Office of Naval Research
• OO, Office of Operations
• OPC, Office of Policy Coordination
• OPD, Operations Division, War Department
• ORE, Office of Research and Evaluation; also Office of Reports and Estimates
• OSO, Office of Special Operations
• OSS, Office of Strategic Services
• OWI, Office of War Information
• PACAF, Pacific Air Forces
• PACOM, Pacific Command
• PBCFIA, President’s Board of Consultants for Foreign Intelligence Activities
• PCG, Planning Coordination Group
• PFIAB, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• PHOTINT, photographic intelligence
• PIC, Photographic Interpretation Center
• PM, Directorate of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State; also paramilitary
• PNG, persona non grata
• PNIO, priority national intelligence objectives
• POCC, Psychological Operations Coordinating Committee
• PP, political and psychological
• PSB, Psychological Strategy Board
• R, Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for Research and Intelligence
• R&A, research and analysis
• R&D, Research and development
• RFA, Radio Free Asia
• RFE, Radio Free Europe
• RIAS, Radio in the American Sector
• ROB, radar order of battle
• ROKG, Republic of Korea Government
• RTG, Reconnaissance Technical Group
• S&T, Science and Technology
• SAC, Strategic Air Command
• SANACC, State-Army-Navy-Air Coordinating Committee
• SE, Special Estimate
• SEC, Scientific Estimates Committee
• SESP, Special Electronic Airborne Search Operations
• SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
• SI, special intelligence
• SIS, Special Intelligence Service
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• SO or SOPAG, Special Operations
• SOVMAT, Soviet material
• SWNCC, State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee
• T/O, table of organization
• TAC, Tactical Air Command
• UNO, United Nations Organization
• USAFE, U.S. Air Forces, Europe
• USCIB, U.S. Communications Intelligence Board
• USEB, U.S. Evaluation Board
• USFA, U.S. Forces in Austria
• USIA, U.S. Information Agency
• USIB, U.S. Intelligence Board
• USIE, U.S. Information and Education (Program)
• USRO, U.S. Mission to NATO and European Regional Organizations
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• VOA, Voice of America
• ZI, zone of interior