List of Abbreviations

  • AAA, anti-aircraft battery
  • AC&W, aircraft control and warning
  • AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
  • AFFE, Army Forces Far East
  • AG, Attorney General
  • ANZUS, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States (the ANZUS Pact nations)
  • ASDF, (Japanese) Air Self-Defense Forces
  • BOB, Bureau of the Budget
  • CA, Office of Chinese Affairs, Department of State
  • CAMG, civil affairs and military government
  • CF, Conference File
  • CHINCOM, China Committee, a permanent working group of the Paris Consultative Group of Nations working to control export of strategic goods to Communist nations
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CINCFE, Commander in Chief, Far East
  • CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific
  • CNO, Chief of Naval Operations
  • COCOM, Coordinating Committee of the Paris Consultative Group of nations working to control export of strategic goods to Communist nations
  • COMUS(J), Commander, United States Forces (Japan)
  • CPR, Chinese People’s Republic
  • DA, Department of the Army
  • DDE,Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • Dulte, series indicator for telegrams from Secretary of State Dulles while away from Washington
  • 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
  • EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • FCN, Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (Treaty)
  • FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • FEAF, Far East Air Forces
  • FEC, Far East Command
  • FE/P, Public Affairs Officer, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs
  • FOA, Foreign Operations Administration
  • G, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State
  • GARIOA, Government and Relief in Occupied Areas
  • GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • GI, government issue (nickname for U.S. soldier)
  • GNP, Gross National Product
  • GOJ, Government of Japan
  • GRI, Government of the Ryukyu Islands
  • IAC, Intelligence Advisory Committee
  • IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • ICA, International Cooperation Administration
  • ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile
  • IMF, International Monetary Fund
  • IMPTFE, International Military Tribunal, Far East
  • IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • ISA, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JDA, Japanese Defense Agency
  • JFY, Japanese Fiscal Year
  • JSDF, Japanese Self-Defense Forces
  • KIV,Kishi visit
  • L, Legal Adviser, Department of State
  • LDP, Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
  • L/FE, Legal Adviser for Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • LSSL, landing ship support, large
  • MAAG–J, Military Assistance Advisory Group in Japan
  • MAP, Mutual Assistance Program
  • MATS, Military Air Transport Service
  • MC, memorandum of conversation
  • MDA, Mutual Defense Assistance
  • MDAP, Mutual Defense Assistance Program
  • MSDF, (Japanese) Maritime Self-Defense Forces
  • MSP, Mutual Security Program
  • NA, Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Niact, night action; communications indicator requiring attention by the recipient at any hour of the day or night
  • NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
  • NSC, National Secuirty Council
  • O, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
  • OCB, Operations Coordinating Board
  • ODA, Office of Dependent Area Affairs, Department of State
  • OFD, Office of International Financial and Development Affairs, Department of State
  • OSP, offshore procurement
  • P, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
  • P2V, type of U.S. Navy antisubmarine aircraft
  • RG, Record Group (of the National Archives and Records Administration)
  • ROK, Republic of Korea
  • RYCOM, Ryukyus Command
  • SC, United Nations Security Council
  • SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
  • Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State (or his delegation) at international conferences
  • SG, Solicitor General
  • S/MSA, Special Assistant, Mutual Security Affairs, Department of State
  • SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
  • S/P, Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning
  • S/S–RO, Reports and Operations Staff of the Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • Stat., U.S. Statutes at Large
  • Tedul, series indicator for telegrams to Secretary of State Dulles while away from Washington
  • TIAS, Department of State Treaties and Other International Acts Series
  • 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/MSA, Special Assistant for Mutual Security Affairs, Department of State
  • UN, United Nations
  • USARPAC, United States Army, Pacific
  • USCAR, United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyus
  • USFJ, United States Forces, Japan
  • USFY, United States Fiscal Year
  • USG, United States Government
  • USN, United States Navy
  • USOM, United States Operations Mission
  • UST, United States Treaties
  • WEU, Western European Union