List of Abbreviations

• AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
• AF, Air Force; Office of African Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State
• AFEX, Air Force Europe Exchange
• AFL, American Federation of Labor
• AGARD, Advisory Group for Air Research and Development
• AKEL, Anorthotikon Komma Ergazomenou Laou (Progressive Party of the Working People of Cyprus)
• AMAS, American Military Assistance Staff
• ANTA, American National Theater Academy
• ARMA, Army Attache
• ATAF, Allied Tactical Air Force
• APFCO, Athens-Pireus Electric Company
• APO, Army Post Office
• ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
• AVH, Allam Vedelmi Hatosag (State Security Authority of Hungary)
• AVO, Allam Vedelmi Osztaly (State Security Department of Hungary)
• BIS, Bank for International Settlements
• BNA, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• B/P, balance of payments
• BP, Baghdad Pact
• BPC, Bondholders’ Protective Council
• CA, circular airgram; Office of Chinese Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System
• CEMA, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
• CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
• CF, Conference File
• CFEP, Council on Foreign Economic Policy
• ChiComs, Chinese Communists
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CINCEUR, Commander in Chief, Europe
• CIO, Congress of Industrial Organizations
• CM, Common Market
• CMC, Cyprus Mines Corporation
• CNU, Committee of National Union, Turkey
• COMSIXATAF, Commander, Sixth Allied Tactical Air Force
• CPR, Chinese People’s Republic
• CPSU, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• CSSR, Czechoslovak Soviet Socialist Republic
• CT, Country Team
• CU, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, Department of State
• CY, calendar year
• D, despatch
• DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
• DD, destroyer
• DDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic)
• DEFREPNAMA, Defense Representative, Naval Attache, Military Attache
• Deptel, Department of State telegram
• desp, despatch
• DLF, Development Loan Fund
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DP, Democratic Party, Turkey
• DS, Defense Support
• E, Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
• E/OT, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
• EAD, Epitropi Apokatastaseos tis Dimokratias (Committee for the Restoration of Democracy)
• ECOSOC, Economic and Social Council, United Nations
• EDA, Enomeni Dimokratiki Aristera (United Democratic Left of Greece)
• EDFO, Economic Development Financing Organization
• EDMA, Eniaion Dimokratikon Metopon Anadimiourgias (United Democratic Reconstruction/Regeneration Front of Cyprus)
• EE, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• EEC, European Economic Community
• EFTA, European Free Trade Area
• Embdes, Embassy despatch
• Embtel, Embassy telegram
• EOKA, Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (National Organization of Cypriot Fighters)
• EPU, European Payments Union
• ERO, European Regional Organization of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
• EUCOM, European Command
• EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• EUR/RA, Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• EXIM Bank, Export-Import Bank
• FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization
• FAST(P), Familiarization and Short Term (Program)
• FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• FDF, Finnish Defense Force
• FDP, Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party of the Federal Republic of Germany)
• FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• FO, Foreign Office
• FonOff, Foreign Office
• FTA, Free Trade Area
• FY, fiscal year
• FYI, for your information
• GA, General Assembly
• GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
• GDR, German Democratic Republic
• GER, Office of German Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• GFR, German Federal Republic
• GNA, Grand National Assembly, Turkey
• GOC, Government of Cyprus
• GOG, Government of Greece
• GOT, Government of Turkey
• GSEE, Geniki Synomospondia Ergaton Ellados (Greek General Confederation of Labor)
• GTI, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State
• HEW, Department of Health, Education and Welfare
• HG, Head of Government
• HMG, Her (His) Majesty’s Government
• IAC, Intelligence Advisory Committee
• IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
• IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• ICA, International Cooperation Administration
• ICEM, Intergovernmental Committee on European Migration
• ICFTU, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
• ICIS, Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security
• IDB, International Development Bank
• IES, International Educational Exchange Service
• IGY, International Geophysical Year
• IIC, International Institute of Communications
• ILO, International Labor Organization
• ILU, International Longshoremen’s Union
• IMF, International Monetary Fund
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/IRC, Office of Intelligence Resources and Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• IPS, International Press Service, United States Information Agency
• IR, Intelligence Report
• ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• ITS, International Trade Secretariat
• JCAE, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (of the U.S. Congress)
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JUSMMAG, Joint United States Mission for Military Aid to Greece
• JUSMMAT, Joint United States Mission for Military Aid to Turkey
• KGB, Komitet Gosudarstvennyi Bezoibastnosti (Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union)
• KKE, Kommounistikon Komma Ellados (Greek Communist Party)
• L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
• LA, Latin America
• LCY, Savez Komunistia Jugoslaviye (League of Yugoslav Communists)
• Legtel, Legation telegram
• L/EUR, Office of European Affairs, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
• LS, Division of Language Services, Department of State
• M, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
• MAP, Military Assistance Program
• MDAP, Mutual Defense Assistance Program
• ME, Middle East
• MFN, most favored nation
• MGB, Ministerstvo Gosudarstvenyi Bezopastnosti (Bezopastnosti for State Security of the Soviet Union)
• M/OP, Operations Coordinator, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Department of State
• MSA, Mutual Security Act
• MSP, Mutual Security Program
• MVD, Ministerstvo Vnutrennvkh Dei’ (Ministry of the Interior of the Soviet Union
• NAC, North Atlantic Council
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NBC, National Broadcasting Company
• NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State, until August 1958; thereafter Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
• Niact, Night action, communications indicator requiring attention by the recipient at any hour of the day or night
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• NSC, National Security Council
• OASD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• OCB, Operations Coordinating Board
• ODM, Office of Defense Mobilization
• OEEC, Organization for European Economic Cooperation
• OPA, Omada gia mia Proletariaki Aristera (Group for a Proletarian Left)
• OS, Outer Seven (members of the European Free Trade Association)
• OSP, Off-Shore Procurement
• OSS, Office of Strategic Services
• OT, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
• P.A., Purchase Agreements/Procurement Authorizations
• PAO, Public Affairs Officer
• PEO, Pan-kyprios Ergatiki Omospondia (Omospondia Federation of Labor)
• PGOT, Provisional Government of Turkey
• P.L., Public Law
• POL, Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants
• Polto, series indicator for telegrams from the Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations to the Department of State
• PPS, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
• PROAGS, Project Agreements
• PX, Post Exchange
• PZPR, PZR, Polska Zjednoszona Partia (United Workers Party) (Poland)
• RA, Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• ref, reference
• RFE, Radio Free Europe
• RG, Record Group
• RPP, Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Republican People’s Party) (Turkey)
• RSFSR, Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic
• RWP, Romanian Workers Party
• S, Office of the Secretary of State
• SAC, Strategic Air Command
• SACEUR, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
• S/AE, Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for Atomic Energy Affairs
• SAK, Suomen Ammattiyhdistysten Keskusliitto (Keskusliitto Confederation of Trade Unions)
• SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
• SEF, Special East European File, United States Information Agency
• SEK, Synomospondia Ergation Kypron (Kypron of Labor of Cyprus/Confederation of Cypriot Workers)
• S/EWC, Office of the Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for East-West Exchanges
• SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe
• SKDL, Suomen Kansan Demokraattinen Liitto (Liitto Peoples Democratic League)
• SKP, Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue (Finnish Communist Party)
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• SOF, Status of Forces
• SOFA, Status of Forces Agreement
• SOV, Sov, Soviet; Soviet Union, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Department of State
• SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Deutschlands Democratic Party of Germany of the Federal Republic of Germany)
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• S/S–RO, Reports and Operations Staff, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• TEA, Ta’gmata Ethniki’s Amy’nis (National Defense Battalions)
• TL, Turkish lira
• TMT, Turk Mukavemet Teskilati (Turkish Resistance Organization) (Cyprus)
• Topol, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations
• TPSL, Tyovaen ja Pienviljelijain Sosialidemokraattinen Litto ((Workers and Small Holders) Social Democratic League) (Finland)
• TUC, Trade Union Congress (United Kingdom)
• TUSLOG, The United States Logistics Group
• U, Office of the Under Secretary of State
• UAR, United Arab Republic
• UK, United Kingdom
• UN, United Nations
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UNSC, United Nations Security Council
• US, United States
• USA, United States Army
• USAF, United States Air Force
• USAREUR, United States Army, Europe
• USC, United States Code
• USDA, United States Department of Agriculture
• USEC, United States Mission to the European Communities
• USEP, United States Escapee Program
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USIB, United States Intelligence Board
• USIS, United States Information Service
• USMC, United States Marine Corps
• USN, United States Navy
• USOM, United States Operations Mission
• USRO, United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
• VOA, Voice of America
• W, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
• W/CEA, Special Assistant for Communist Economic Activities, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
• WEU, Western European Union
• WFTU, World Federation of Trade Unions
• W/MSC, Office of the Special Assistant for Mutual Security Coordination
• WPA, Works Progress Administration
• ZMW, Zwiazek Mloudziezy Wiejskiej (Rural Youth Polish Union)