Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume V,
Vietnam, 1967
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)