List of Abbreviations

• AA, anti-aircraft
• AAA, anti-aircraft artillery
• ABG, air base group
• AC&W, aircraft control and warning
• AFC, Armed Forces Council
• AFP, Agence France Presse (French Press Agency)
• AID, Agency for International Development
• ALO, Air Liaison Officer
• AP, Associated Press
• ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam
• ASAP, as soon as possible
• ASW, anti-submarine warfare
• AWOL, absent without leave
• Bks, barracks
• BLT, battalion landing team
• Bn/Dist Adv, Battalion District Advisers
• BNA, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State BOQ Bachelor Officers Quarters
• BTL, Battalion
• CAP, Combat Air Patrol
• CARE, Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere
• CAS, controlled American source
• ChiCom, Chinese Communists
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CIDG, Citizens’ Irregular Defense Group
• CINCPACFLT, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet
• CINCRVNAF, Commander in Chief, Republic of Vietnam Air Force
• CINCUSARPAC, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army Pacific
• CINCVAF, Commander in Chief. Vietnamese Armed Forces
• CIP, counterinsurgency program
• CJCS, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• CVN, Central Vietnam COM7FLT. Commander Seventh Fleet
• COMUSMACV, Commander, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
• CONUS, continental United States
• CP, command post
• CP, Communist Party
• CPR, Chinese People’s Republic
• C/S, Chief of Staff
• CTV, Confederation Travailleurs du Vietnam (Vietnamese Confederation of Labor)
• CT, Country Team
• CVA, attack aircraft carrier
• CVTC, Confederation of Vietnamese Trade Congresses
• DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
• DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
• DepPriMin, Deputy Prime Minister
• Deptel, Department of State telegram
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• DMZ, demilitarized zone
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
• DTG, date-time group
• EDT, Eastern Daylight Time
• KG, escort group
• EmbOff, Embassy officer
• Embtel, Embassy telegram
• EST, Eastern Standard Time
• EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• ExCom, Executive Committee
• Exdis, Executive distribution only
• FAC, Forward Air Controllers FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• FE/SEA, Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• FonOff, Foreign Office
• FSO, Foreign Service officer
• GCI, Ground Controlled Interception
• GNZ, Government of New Zealand
• GOA, Government of Australia
• GRC, Government of the Republic of China
• GVN, Government of Vietnam
• HMG, Her Majesty’s Government
• HNC, High National Council
• ICC, International Control Commission
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• IO, Bureau of International Organizations Affairs, Department of State
• ISA, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
• J–1, Personnel, JCS
• J–2, Intelligence, JCS
• J–3, Operations, JCS
• J–4, Logistics, JCS
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum
• JGS, Joint General Staff
• Limdis, limited distribution restriction on telegrams
• LOC, lines of communication
• MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
• MAC J00, series indicator for telegrams from MACV
• MACV, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
• MAP, Military Assistance Program
• MAROPS, Maritime Operations
• MEB, Marine Expeditionary Brigade
• MEDICO, Medical International Cooperation
• MEF, Marine Evacuation Force Emergency
• MiG, Soviet-built fighter aircraft
• MinDef, Minister of Defense
• MLF, multilateral force
• MOH, Ministry of Health
• MRC, Military Revolutionary Council
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NCO, non-commissioned officer
• NFLSVN, National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
• NLF, National Liberation Front
• NM, nautical miles
• NMCC, National Military Communications Center
• Nodis, no distribution
• Noforn, no foreign dissemination
• NOTAL, telegram code, “not all,” indicating that corresponding reference telegram was not sent to all addressees
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
• NSCWG, National Security Council Working Group
• NVN, North Vietnam
• OASD/ISA, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• ODMA, Office of the Director for Military Assistance
• OPLAN, Operations Plan
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• OSS, Office of Strategic Services
• PA, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
• PACAF, Pacific Air Forces (USAF)
• PACOM, Pacific Command
• PAVN, People’s Army of Vietnam
• PDJ, Plaine des Jarres
• PL, Pathet Lao
• PL, Public Law
• PM, Prime Minister
• PNG, persona non grata
• P/ON, Office of News, Bureau of Public Affairs
• POL, petroleum, oil, lubricants
• POLAD, Political Adviser
• PRC, People’s Republic of China
• PRC, People’s Revolutionary Council
• PriMin, Prime Minister
• psyops, psychological operations
• PT, patrol
• RCI, Office of Current Intelligence Indications, Bureau of Intelligence and Re search, Department of State
• reftel, reference telegram
• RFE, Office of Research and Analysis for Far East, Bureau of Intelligence and Re search, Department of State
• RG, Record Group
• RKG, Royal Khmer government
• RLAF, Royal Laotian Air Force
• RLG, Royal Laotian government
• RTG, Royal Thai Government
• RVN, Republic of Vietnam
• RVNAF, Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
• SACSA, Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, JCS
• SAM, surface-to-air missile
• SAR, search and rescue
• SC, Security Council
• SDC, Self Defense Corps
• SEA, Southeast Asia
• SEATO, Southeast Asian Treaty Organization
• SecDef, Secretary of Defense
• septel, separate telegram
• SKZ, Chinese recoilless rifle
• SLF, Special Landing Force
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• S/P, Policy Planning Council, Department of State
• SPECAT, special category, military telegram
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• S/VN, Secretary of State’s Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
• SVN, South Vietnam
• TACS, Tactical Air Control System
• tel, telegram
• TG, Thai Government
• UK, United Kingdom
• UN, United Nations
• UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• UNSC, United Nations Security Council
• UPI, United Press International
• USAF, United States Air Force
• USG, United States Government
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USIS, United States Information Service
• USOM, United States Operations Mission
• USNS, United States Naval Ship
• USS, United States Ship
• USSF, United States Special Forces
• VC, Viet Cong
• VM, Viet Minh
• VNAF, Vietnamese Air Force
• VNN, Vietnamese Navy
• VNQDD, Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dung (National Party of Vietnam)
• VOA, Voice of America
• WESTPAC, Western Pacific
• ZI, Zone of Interior