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 Attaché
- 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
- CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
- CINCEUR, Commander in Chief, Europe
- CIO, Congress of Industrial Organizations
- ChiComs, Chinese Communists
- CINCEUR, Commander in Chief, Europe
- 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 Attaché, Military Attaché
- 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 Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union)
- KKE, Kommunistikon Komma Ellados (Greek Communist Party)
- L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
- L/EUR, Office of European Affairs, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
- LA, Latin America
- LCY, Savez Komunistia Jugoslaviye (League of Yugoslav Communists)
- Legtel, Legation telegram
- 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 Bezopasnosti (Ministry for StateSecurity 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
- PA, Purchase Agreements/Procurement Authorizations
- PAO, Public Affairs officer
- PEO, Pan-kyprios Ergatiki Omospondia (Pancyprian 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
- RFE, Radio Free Europe
- ref, reference
- 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
- S/AE, Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for Atomic Energy and Outer Space
- S/EWC, Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for East-West Exchanges
- S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
- S/S–RO, Reports and Operations Staff, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
- SAC, Strategic Air Command
- SACEUR, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
- SAK, Suomen Ammattiyhdistysten Keskusliitto (Finnish Confederation of Trade Unions)
- SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
- SEF, Special East European File, United States Information Agency
- SEK, Synomospondia Ergation Kypron (Confederation of Labor of Cyprus/Confederation of Cypriot Workers)
- SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe
- SKDL, Suomen Kansan Demokraattinen Liitto (Finnish 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, Soviet
- SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
- SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany of the Federal Republic of Germany)
- 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 of 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
- UNTS, United Nations Treaty Series
- 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
- UST, United States Treaties
- 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
- ZMW, Zwiazek Mloudziezy Wiejskiej (Rural Youth Polish Union)