List of Abbreviations

• AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
• AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AFL/CIO, American Federation of Labor/Congress on Industrial Organizations
• AmEmb, American Embassy
• ARAMCO, Arabian-American Oil Company.
• ARMISH-MAAG, United States Military Mission with the Iranian Army–Military Assistance Advisory Group
• ASRP, Arab Socialist Resurrectionist Party (Syrian)
• AU, Arab Union (Jordan and Iraq)
• B/D, barrels per day
• BNA, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs
• BP, British Petroleum; Baghdad Pact; Industrial Business Practices Division, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
• C, Office of the Counselor, Department of State
• CARE, Cooperative for American Remittances to Everywhere
• CENTO, Central Treaty Organization (renamed Baghdad Pact Organization after August 21, 1959)
• ChiComs, Chinese Communists
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CIC, Counter Intelligence Corps
• CINCEUR, Commander in Chief, Europe
• CINCNELM, Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean
• CMPS, Combined Military Planning Staff, CENTO
• COMIDEASTFOR, Commanding Officer, Middle East Forces
• Condes, Consulate despatch
• CONUS, Continental United States
• COS, Chief of Staff
• CP, Communist Party
• CPI, Communist Party of Iraq
• DAF, Dhahran Airfield
• DD/P, Deputy Director, Plans, CIA
• Deptel, Department of State telegram
• DLF, Development Loan Fund
• DMO, Director of Military Operations
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DRN, Division of Research and Analysis for Near East, South Asia, and Africa, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• DS, Defense Support
• E, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
• EAL, Eastern Airlines
• Embtel, Embassy telegram
• ENI, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (Italian oil company)
• EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• EURATOM, European Atomic Energy Community
• Ex-Im, Export-Import
• Eximbank, Export-Import Bank
• FAO, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
• FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
• FM, Foreign Minister
• FY, fiscal year
• FYI, for your information
• G, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• GNP, gross national product
• GOI, Government of Iran; Government of Iraq
• GOT, Government of Turkey
• GOY, Government of Yemen
• GTI, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• H, Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations
• HKJ, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
• HMG, Her Majesty’s Government (U.K.)
• IAC, Intelligence Advisory Committee
• IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• ICA, International Cooperation Administration
• ILO, International Labor Organization
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• IO/UNP, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• IPC, Iraq Petroleum Company
• IRBM, intermediate-range ballistic missile
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
• L/E, Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Economic Affairs, Department of State
• LSM, landing ship, medium
• MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
• MAP, Military Assistance Program
• MATS, Military Air Transport Service
• ME, Middle East
• ME Res., Middle East Resolution
• MIG, A.I. Mikoyan i M.I. Gurevich (Soviet fighter aircraft named for designers Mikoyan and Gurevich)
• MSA, Mutual Security Agency/Act/Assistance
• MSP, Mutual Security Program; military support program
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NDP, National Democratic Party (Iraq)
• NE, Near East; Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs until August 20, 1958; thereafter Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NE/E, Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• NSC, National Security Council
• OAS, Organization of American States
• OCB, Operations Coordinating Board
• O/CI, Office of Current Intelligence, CIA
• OCMD, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
• OEEC, Organization for European Economic Cooperation
• OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• P, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
• PL, Public Law
• PMDG, Permanent Military Defense Group, CENTO
• PMRG, Permanent Military Representatives Group
• PODST, Principal Officer’s Daily Summary Telegram
• POL, petroleum, oil, and lubricants
• PRF, Popular Resistance Force, Iraq
• PX, Post Exchange
• RAF, Royal Air Force
• RIAF, Royal Iraqi Air Force
• SA, Saudi Arabia
• SAC, Strategic Air Command
• SAG, Saudi Arabian Government
• Savak, Iranian National Security and Information Service (Sazeman-e Ettela’at va Amniyat-e Keshvar)
• SCS, Supreme Chief of Staff (Iran)
• SEATO, South East Asia Treaty Organization
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• SOA, Office of South Asian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State
• SOCAL, Standard Oil of California
• SONJ, Standard Oil of New Jersey
• S/P, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
• S/S, Executive Secretariat of the Department of State
• TAPLINE, Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company
• TOICA, series indicator for telegrams to the International Cooperation Administration
• TWA, Trans World Airways
• UAR, United Arab Republic
• UAS, United Arab States (UAR and Yemen)
• U/CEA, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Communist Economic Affairs
• UK, United Kingdom
• UN, United Nations
• UNEF, United Nations Emergency Force
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UNRWA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine and the Near East
• UNTSO, United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization
• USAF, United States Air Force
• USG, United States Government
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USIB, United States Intelligence Board
• USIS, United States Information Service
• USMILREPME, United States Military Representative for the Middle East (proposed)
• USMTM, United States Military Training Mission (Saudi Arabia)
• 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
• VOA, Voice of America
• W, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
• WE/EUR, Office of Western European Affairs
• WFTU, World Federation of Trade Unions