Office of the Historian

List of Abbreviations

  • ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
  • EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
  • G/B, Gemany/Berlin
  • GDR, German Democratic Republic
  • ICC, International Control Commission
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • niact, night action: communications indicator requiring attention by the recipient at any hour of the day or night
  • P, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
  • SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • S/AE, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Disarmament and Atomic Energy
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • S/S-RO, Reports and Operations Staff, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • TASS, Telegrafnoye Agentsvo Sovetskogo Soiuza (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union)
  • UN, United Nations
  • USA, United States of America
  • 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