Office of the Historian

List of Abbreviations

  • AC & W, air communication and weather
  • ACE, Allied Command Europe
  • ACLI, Associazione Cristiana Lavoratori Italiani (Association of Italian Christian Workers)
  • AEA, Atomic Energy Authority
  • AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
  • AFMED, Allied Forces Mediterranean
  • AIRCENT, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe
  • ALO, American Liaison Office; series indicator for telegrams from the American Liaison Office to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Amb, Ambassador
  • AR, Annual Review
  • ATAF, Allied Tactical Air Force
  • b/d, barrels per day
  • B/P, balance of payments
  • BAOR, British Army on the Rhine
  • BENELUX, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg
  • BMEW, ballistic missile early warning
  • BNA, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Department of State
  • BOQ, bachelor officers’ quarters
  • BP, Baghdad Pact
  • Busec, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Mission to the European Communities, Brussels
  • C, Office of the Counselor, Department of State
  • CA, circular airgram
  • Cahto, series indicator for telegrams to the Department of State from Secretary of State Herter while away from Washington
  • CATAC, Commander Allied Tactical Forces
  • CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System
  • CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation
  • CEA, Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (Atomic Energy Commissariat)
  • CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
  • CES, Conseil Economique et Social (Economic and Social Committee—OEEC); Conference on European Security
  • CGT, Confédération Général du Travail (General Confederation of Labor)
  • CHANCOM, Channel Command
  • ChiCom, Chinese Communist
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CIG, Intergovernmental Committee on the Establishment of a Free Trade Area
  • CINCAFMED, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Mediterranean
  • CINCAIRCENT, Commander in Chief, Allied Air Forces, Central Europe
  • CINCENT, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Central Europe
  • CINCEUR, Commander in Chief, Europe
  • CINCHAN, Commander in Chief, Channel Command
  • CINCLANT, Commander in Chief, Atlantic
  • CINCNELM, Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean
  • CINCNORAD, Commander in Chief, North American Air Defense
  • CINCONAD, Commander in Chief, Continental Air Defense
  • CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific
  • CINCSOUTH, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe
  • circinstr, circular instruction
  • C–M, series indicator for North Atlantic Council memoranda
  • COCOM, Coordinating Committee of the Consultative Group, based in Paris, consisting of nations seeking to control the export of strategic goods to communist countries
  • C of S, Chief of Staff
  • Colux, series indicator for documents sent from the Representative to the European Economic Communities at Luxembourg to the Department of State
  • CPC, Combined Policy Committee
  • CRS, Campagnies Républicaines de Securité, French national security police
  • CY, calendar year
  • DAG, Development Assistance Group
  • DAT, Défense aérienne du territoire (Territorial Air Defense)
  • DC, Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democratic Party)
  • DE, Destroyer Escort
  • Depcirtel, Department of State circular telegram
  • Deptel, Department of State telegram
  • DEW Line, Distant Early Warning Line
  • DLF, Development Loan Fund
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • Dulte, series indicator for telegrams sent to the Department of State by Secretary of State Dulles while away from Washington
  • DS, defense support
  • E, Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Ecbus, series designator for telegrams to the Mission to the European Communities from the Department of State
  • ECONAD, Committee of Economic Advisers to the North Atlantic Council
  • EDC, European Defense Community
  • EEC, European Economic Community
  • EFTA, European Free Trade Area; European Free Trade Association
  • Embtel, Embassy telegram
  • ENI, Ente Nazionale Idrocarbone (State Petroleum Agency)
  • EPA, European Payments Agreement
  • EPU, European Payments Union
  • EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/BNA, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/GER, Office of German Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/RA, Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/WE, Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EURATOM, European Atomic Energy Community
  • EX-IM, Export-Import Bank
  • E/W, east/west
  • FAA, Federal Aviation Administration
  • FCDA, Federal Civil Defense Administration
  • FedRep, Federal Republic of Germany
  • FLN, Front de Libération Nationale (National Liberation Front)
  • FM, Foreign Minister
  • FonMin, Foreign Minister
  • ForMin, Foreign Minister
  • FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
  • FTA, Free Trade Association; Free Trade Area
  • FY, fiscal year
  • FYI, for your information
  • GA, General Assembly
  • GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • GAF, German Air Force
  • GARIOA, Government and Relief in Occupied Areas
  • GDR, German Democratic Republic
  • GER, Office of German Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • GFR, German Federal Republic
  • GNP, gross national product
  • GOF, Government of France; Government of Finland
  • GOI, Government of Iceland; Government of Italy
  • GOS, Government of Spain
  • GRC, Government of the Republic of China
  • HG, Head of Goverment
  • HMG, His (Her) Majesty’s Government
  • IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • ICA, International Cooperation Administration
  • ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile
  • ICFTU, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
  • IEME, Instituto Español de Moneda Extranjera (Spanish Institute of Foreign Exchange)
  • INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • IMF, International Monetary Fund
  • IRBM, intermediate range ballistic missile
  • IS, International Staff
  • ISA, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JEA(D), Joint Economic Affairs (Document)
  • JIMCO, Joint Industrial Mobilization Committee
  • JUSMAG, Joint United States Military Advisory Group
  • KLM, Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Aviation Company, KLM–Royal Dutch Airlines)
  • KW, kilowatt
  • L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
  • LDC, less developed country
  • LOC, line of communication
  • LS, Division of Language Services, Department of State
  • Luxco, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Mission to the European Economic Communities at Luxembourg
  • M, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • MA, military assistance
  • MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
  • MAP, Military Assistance Program
  • MB–1, missile-bomber
  • MC, Military Committee
  • MDAP, Mutual Defense Assistance Program
  • MEDOC, Mediterranean Ocean; used by NATO to describe Western Mediterranean Area
  • MFN, most favored nation
  • Min, Minister
  • MOD, Ministry of Defense
  • MRBM, medium range ballistic missile
  • MRP, Mouvement Républicain Populaire (Popular Republican Movement)
  • MSI, Movimento Sociale Italiano (Italian Socialist Movement)
  • MUIS, Movimento Unitario di Iniziativa Socialista (Unity Movement of Socialist Initiative)
  • MWDP, Mutual Weapons Development Program
  • NA, North Atlantic
  • NAC, North Atlanic Council
  • NADET, NATO Deterrent
  • NARB, NATO Annual Review Board
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NEB, National Energy Board
  • NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
  • NOA, new obligational authority
  • Noforn, no foreign nationals
  • NORAD, North American Air Defense Command
  • NSC, National Security Council
  • OAS, Organization of American States
  • OCB, Operations Coordinating Board
  • OCON, Office of Interministerial Commission for the Implementation of the Agreements Between Spain and the United States
  • ODM, Office of Defense Mobilization
  • OEC, Organization for Economic Cooperation
  • OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • OEEC, Organization for European Economic Cooperation
  • OSD/ISA, Office of the Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs
  • OSP, offshore procurement
  • OT, overseas territory
  • PCI, Partito Comunista Italiano (Italian Communist Party)
  • PDI, Partito Democratico Italiano (Italian Democratic Party)
  • PermRep, Permanent Representative
  • PJBD, Permanent Joint Board on Defense
  • P.L., Public Law
  • PLI, Partito Liberale Italiana (Italian Liberal Party)
  • PMP, Partito Monarchico Popolare (Popular Monarchist Party)
  • PNM, Partito Nazionale Monarchico (National Monarchist Party)
  • POL, petroleum, oil, and lubricants
  • Polto, series indicator for telegrams from the Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations
  • PPS, Policy Planning Staff
  • PriMin, Prime Minister
  • PR, Partito Radicale (Radical Party)
  • PRI, Partito Repubblicano Italiano (Italian Republican Party)
  • PSDI, Partito Social Democratico Italiano (Italian Social Democratic Party)
  • PVC/MC, President’s visit to Canada/memorandum of conversation
  • PX, post exchange
  • QR, quantitative restriction
  • R, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Intelligence
  • R & D, research and development
  • RA, Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • RAF, Royal Air Force
  • RCAF, Royal Canadian Air Force
  • ref, reference
  • refair, reference airgram
  • reftel, reference telegram
  • rep, representative
  • ROK, Republic of Korea
  • S, Office of the Secretary of State
  • SAC, Strategic Air Command
  • SACEUR, Supreme Allied Command, Europe
  • SACLANT, Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic
  • Sage, Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
  • SAM, surface-to-air missile
  • SAMOS, Satellite-Missile Observation System
  • SCA, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State
  • SD–MICC, State-Defense Military Information Control Committee
  • SEA, Southeast Asia
  • SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
  • Sec, Secretary
  • SecDel/MC, Secretary of State’s delegation/memorandum of conversation
  • SecGen, Secretary General
  • Secto, series indicator for telegrams to the Department of State from the Secretary of State (or his delegation) at international conferences
  • SG, Secretary General; Standing Group
  • SGN, Standing Group, NATO
  • SGRep, Secretary General’s Representative
  • SHAEF, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
  • SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe
  • SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
  • SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (German Social Democratic Party)
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • STRIKEFORSOUTH, Strike Force South
  • sq, squadron
  • SUNFED, Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development
  • TC, technical cooperation
  • telecon, telephone conversation
  • TNCD, Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament
  • Topol, series indicator from the Department of State to the Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations
  • Tosec, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Secretary of State (or his delegation) while at internationa conferences
  • U, Under Secretary of State
  • UAR, United Arab Republic
  • UK, United Kingdom
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
  • UNR, Union pour la Nouvelle République (Union for the New Republic)
  • UNSC, United Nations Security Council
  • US/MC, United States memorandum of conversation
  • USA, United States Army
  • USAF, United States Air Force
  • USAFE, United States Air Force, Europe
  • USCINCEUR, Commander in Chief, United States Forces, Europe
  • USDA, United States Department of Agriculture
  • USDel, United States Delegation
  • USEC, United States Representative to the European Economic Communities at Luxembourg; series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Mission to the European Economic Communities
  • USG, United States Government
  • USIA, United States Information Agency
  • USOM, United States Operations Mission
  • USRO, Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations
  • W, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • WE, Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State
  • WEU, Western European Union
  • WG, working group
  • WP, working party