Abbreviations and Terms

• AAA, anti-aircraft artillery
• AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
• AFC, Armed Forces Council
• ANZUS, Australia, New Zealand, United States
• AID, Agency for International Development
• Arc Light, code name for U.S. B–52 bombing strikes in Southeast Asia
• ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam
• ASA, Association of Southeast Asia
• ASPAC, Asian Pacific Council
• Aspen, code name for U.S. peace negotiations through Swedish channels
• B–52, U.S. Air Force strategic bomber
• Barrel Roll, code name for U. S. air operations over northern Laos
• C–130, U.S. Air Force transport plane
• CAP, series indicator for outgoing White House telegrams; combat air patrol; combined action platoon
• CAS, controlled American source
• ChiCom, Chinese Communist
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CIDG, Civilian Irregular Defense Group
• Chieu Hoi, Government of South Vietnam’s repatriation program for the Viet Cong
• CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific
• CINCPACAF, Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Force
• CINCPACFLT, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet
• CINCUSARPAC, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Pacific
• CIP, Commercial Import Program
• CJCS, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• CMC, Clark M. Clifford
• COMUSMACV, Commander, U. S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
• CORDS, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development
• COSVN, Central Office for South Vietnam (Viet Cong)
• CTZ, Combat Tactical Zone
• DAB, Democratic Alliance Bloc (South Vietnam)
• Daniel Boone, clandestine U.S. Army-ARVN reconnaissance operations into Cambodian border areas
• DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
• DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
• Deptel, Department of State telegram
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• DMZ, Demilitarized Zone
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DPM, Draft Presidential Memorandum
• DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
• EA, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
• EA/ACA, Office of Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
• EA/VN, Vietnam Working Group, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
• Exdis, exclusive distribution
• Footboy, overall program of clandestine operations against North Vietnam
• FRC, Federal Records Center
• FULRO, United Front for the Struggle of the Oppressed Race, a movement for Montagnard autonomy
• FW, Free World
• FWMAF, Free World Military Assistance Forces
• FY, fiscal year
• FYI, for your information
• Govto, series indicators for telegrams from Ambassador at Large W. Averell Harriman
• Gp, Group
• GRC, Government of the Republic of China
• GVN, Government of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
• HEW, Department of Health, Education and Welfare
• Hickory, joint U.S. Marine Corps-ARVN operations against NVA forces infiltrating through the DMZ in mid-1967
• Hop Tac, Government of Vietnam program for pacification of Saigon and surrounding provinces
• ICC, International Control Commission
• ICEX, Infrastructure Intelligence Coordination and Exploitation
• ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross
• IMF, International Monetary Fund
• info, information
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum
• JGS, Joint General Staff, Vietnamese Armed Forces
• Junction City, military sweep of War Zone C during February through April 1967
• JUSPAO, Joint United States Public Affairs Office
• KIA, killed in action
• Limdis, limited distribution
• LOC, line of communication
• Louisiana, code name for U.S. effort to secure additional foreign country forces for the Vietnam war
• MACV, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
• MAP, Military Assistance Program
• Marigold, code name for U.S. peace negotiations through Polish and Italian channels, 1966
• McN, Robert McNamara
• MFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• MIG, Soviet-built fighter aircraft
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• NLF, National Liberation Front
• NM, nautical miles
• Nodis, no distribution
• Noforn, no foreign distribution
• NP, National Police
• NPFF, National Police Field Force
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
• NSC, National Security Council
• NVA, North Vietnamese Army
• NVN, North Vietnam
• OAS, Organization of American States
• OASD, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
• O/B, order of battle
• OCO, Office of Civil Operations
• ONE, Office of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• PAVN, People’s Army of (North) Vietnam
• PF, Popular Forces
• PFF, Police Field Forces
• PFIAB, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• P.L., Public Law
• PM, Prime Minister
• POL, petroleum, oil, lubricants
• POLAD, Political Adviser
• POW, prisoner of war
• Prairie Fire, interdiction operations in Laos
• PRC, People’s Republic of China
• PW, prisoner of war
• PX, post exchange
• RD, Revolutionary Development
• reftel, reference telegram
• RF, Regional Forces
• RG, Record Group
• ROC, Republic of China
• ROK, Republic of Korea
• Rolling Thunder, code name for program of U.S. air operations in North Vietnam
• RP, route packages
• RT, Rolling Thunder
• RVN, Republic of (South) Vietnam
• RVNAF, Republic of (South) Vietnam Armed Forces
• S, Secret
• SAM, surface to air missiles
• SAVA, Special Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
• SC, Security Council
• SDF, Self-Defense Forces
• SEA, Southeast Asia
• Sea Dragon, naval operations along the North Vietnamese coast up to the 20th parallel
• SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
• SecDef, Secretary of Defense
• Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State while away fromWashington
• septel, separate telegram
• SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Shining Brass, code name for cross-border operations into Laos and the DMZ
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• Sitrep, situation report
• Southpaw, code name for a plan to conduct raids into Laos by joint U.S. Army-ARVN teams
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• Steel Tiger, code name for U.S. air strikes against the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos
• SVN, South Vietnam
• SYG, Secretary-General of the United Nations
• TCC, troop contributing countries
• Togov, series indicators for telegrams to Ambassador at Large W. Averell Harriman
• Tosec, series indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State while away fromWashington
• TPP, Thermal Power Plant
• TS, Top Secret
• U, unclassified
• UK, United Kingdom
• UN, United Nations
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• US, United States
• USAID, United States Agency for International Development Mission
• USG, United States Government
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USMACV, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
• USOM, United States Operations Mission
• USSR, Union of SoVIET Socialist Republics
• USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
• VC, Viet Cong
• VN, Vietnam; Vietnam Working Group, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
• VNAF, (South) Vietnamese Air Force
• VNCC, Vietnam Coordinating Committee
• VNQDD, Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang (Vietnamese Nationalist Party)
• VP, Vice President
• WH, White House
• Z, Zulu (Greenwich Mean Time)