Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, China,
Volume II
List of Abbreviations and Symbols
- AA,
anti-aircraft
- AAA, anti-aircraft
artillery
- AC&W, aircraft
control and warning
- ADA, Americans for
Democratic Action
- AEC, Atomic Energy
Commission
- AFFE, Army Forces Far
East
- AG, Adjutant
General
- ANZUS, Australia,
New Zealand, and the United States (the ANZUS Pact nations)
- AP, Associated
Press
- ARC, Annual Review
Committee
- ATF, fleet ocean
tug
- BOB, Bureau of the
Budget
- C, Counselor, Department
of State
- CA, Office of Chinese
Affairs, Department of State
- CAF, Chinese Air Force
(Republic of China)
- CAMG, Office of Civil
Affairs and Military Government, Department of the Army
- CAT, Civil Air
Transport
- CCP, Chinese Communist
Party
- CG
AFFE/ARMYEIGHT, Commanding General, Army Forces Far
East, Eighth Army
- CGUSARPAC,
Commanding General, United States Army, Pacific
- ChiCom, Chinese
Communist
- ChiNat, Chinese
Nationalist
- CHINCOM, China
Committee, a permanent working group of the Paris Consultative Group of
nations working to control export of strategic goods to Communist
countries
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CINCFE, Commander
in Chief, Far East
- CINCPAC, Commander
in Chief, Pacific
- CINCPACFLT,
Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet
- CIO, Congress of
Industrial Organizations
- CNO, Chief of Naval
Operations
- COCOM, Coordinating
Committee of the Paris Consultative Group of nations working to control
export of strategic goods to Communist countries
- COMFORM
DEFCOM, Commander, Formosa Defense Command
- COMSEVENTHFLT, Commander, Seventh Fleet
- COMTAIWAN DEFCOM
(US), Commander, Taiwan Defense Command
- COMUS, Commander,
United States Forces
- CP, command post
- CPPCC, Chinese
People’s Political Consultative Conference
- CPR, Chinese People’s
Republic
- DA, Defense Agency;
Department of the Army
- Deptel, Department
of State telegram
- DFS, Direct Forces
Support
- DOD, Department of
Defense
- DRF, Division of
Research for Far East, Office of Intelligence Research, Department of
State
- Dulte, series
indicator for telegrams from Secretary of State Dulles while away from Washington; also used as series
indicator for telegrams to Dulles
from the head of the United States Delegation at an international
conference
- E, Bureau of Economic
Affairs, Department of State
- EAS, Department of
State Executive Agreement Series
- ECAFE, Economic
Commission for Asia and the Far East
- EE, Office of Eastern
European Affairs, Department of State
- Embdesp, Embassy
despatch
- Embtel, Embassy
telegram
- EUR, Bureau of
European Affairs, Department of State
- FBI, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
- FBIS, Foreign
Broadcast Information Service
- FCN, Friendship,
Commerce and Navigation (Treaty)
- FE, Bureau of Far
Eastern Affairs, Department of State
- FE/P, Public Affairs
Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
- FEAF, Far East Air
Forces
- FEC, Far East
Command
- FMC, Foreign Ministers
Conference
- FOA, Foreign
Operations Administration
- Fr, France
- FY, Fiscal Year
- FYI, for your
information
- G, Deputy Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs
- GA, General
Assembly
- GATT, General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GMT, Greenwich mean
time
- GNP, gross national
product
- GOI, Government of
India
- GOP, Government of
Pakistan
- GRC, Government of the
Republic of China
- GVN, Government of
Vietnam
- HICOM, High
Commissioner
- HMG, Her Majesty’s
Government (United Kingdom)
- IAC, Intelligence
Advisory Committee
- IBRD, International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- ICA, International
Cooperation Administration
- ICBM,
Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
- ICC, International
Control Commission
- ICJ, International
Court of Justice
- IMF, International
Monetary Fund
- INR, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INS, Immigration and
Naturalization Service
- IO, Bureau of
International Organization Affairs, Department of State
- ISA, Office of
International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
- KMT, Kuomintang
(Nationalist Party), Republic of China
- L, Legal Adviser,
Department of State
- LST, landing ship,
tank
- MAAG, Military
Assistance Advisory Group
- MAC, Military
Armistice Commission
- MAP, Military
Assistance Program
- MDA, Mutual Defense
Assistance
- MDAP, Mutual Defense
Assistance Program
- ME, Middle East
- MND, Ministry of
National Defense (Republic of China)
- MSA, Mutual Security
Assistance
- MSP, Mutual Security
Program
- MWDP, Mutual Weapons
Development Program
- NATO, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
- Niact, night action;
communications indicator requiring attention by the recipient at any hour of
the day or night
- NIC, National
Indications Center
- NIE, National
Intelligence Estimate
- NPC, National People’s
Congress (People’s Republic of China)
- NSC, National Security
Council
- NZ, New Zealand
- O, Deputy Under
Secretary of State for Administration
- OCB, Operations
Coordinating Board
- OFD, Office of
Financial and Development Policy, Department of State
- OIR, Office of
Intelligence Research, Department of State
- OSD, Office of the
Secretary of Defense
- OSP, offshore
procurement
- P, Bureau of Public
Affairs, Department of State
- PASEP, being passed
separately
- PAO, Public Affairs
Officer
- PCH&T, packing,
crating, handling, and transportation
- PL, Public Law
- POL, petroleum, oil,
and lubricants
- POW, prisoner of
war
- PRC, People’s Republic
of China
- PSA, Office of
Philippine and Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State
- RCT, regimental combat
team
- ROK, Republic of
Korea
- S/MSA, Office of the
Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Mutual Security
Affairs
- S/P, Assistant
Secretary of State for Policy Planning
- S/S, Executive
Secretariat, Department of State
- SC, United Nations
Security Council
- SCA, Administrator,
Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State
- SCAP, Supreme
Commander, Allied Powers
- SEA, Office of
Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State
- SEATO, Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization
- Secto, series
indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State (or his delegation) at
international conferences
- SUNFED, Special
United Nations Fund for Economic Development
- SYG,
Secretary-General
- TDC, Taiwan Defense
Command
- Tedul, series
indicator for telegrams to Secretary of State Dulles while absent from Washington; also used as series
indicator for telegrams from Dulles
to the head of the United States Delegation at an international
conference
- TH, Theater
- TO&E, Table of
Organization and Equipment
- Tosec, series
indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State (or his delegation) at
international conferences
- U, Office of the Under
Secretary of State
- U/OP, Operations
Coordinator, Department of State
- UK, United
Kingdom
- UKG, Government of the
United Kingdom
- UKHC, United Kingdom
High Commissioner
- UN, United
Nations
- UNC, United Nations
Command
- UNCURK, United
Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea
- UNP, Office of United
Nations Political and Security Affairs, Department of State
- UNTS, United Nations
Treaty Series
- USAF, United States
Air Force
- USARMA, United
States Army Attaché
- USARMLO, United
States Army Liaison Officer
- USARPAC, United
States Army, Pacific
- USG, United States
Government
- USIS, United States
Information Service
- USOM, United States
Operations Mission
- USSR, Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
- UST,
United States Treaties and Other International
Agreements
- USTDC, United States
Taiwan Defense Command
- USUN, United States
Mission at the United Nations
- VAdm, Vice
Admiral
- VOA, Voice of
America