Abbreviations

  • ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
  • ADL, Armistice Demarcation Line
  • AEC, Atomic Energy Commission AID, Agency for International Development
  • AIDTO, series indicator for telegrams from AID in Washington to the field
  • AJC, American Jewish Committee
  • Amb, Ambassador
  • APC, armored personnel carrier
  • ARAMCO, Arabian-American Oil Company
  • BG, initials of former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
  • BOB, Bureau of the Budget
  • CA, circular airgram
  • CAB/FAA, Civil Aeronautics Board/Federal Aviation Administration
  • CANE, distribution indicator for telegrams pertaining to arms limitation probe
  • CAS, Controlled American Source
  • CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation
  • CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
  • ChiCom(s), Chinese Communist(s)
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CINCMEAFSA, Commander in Chief, Middle East/South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara
  • CINCSTRIKE, Commander in Chief, Strike Command
  • CINCUSAFE, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Air Force, Europe
  • CINCUSAREUR, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Army, Europe
  • CINCUSNAVEUR, Commander in Chief, U.S. Navy, Europe
  • COMSIXTHFLT, Commander, Sixth Fleet
  • CONUS, Continental United States
  • C/S, Chief of Staff
  • DAC, Development Assistance Committee
  • DATT, Defense Attache
  • DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
  • DDI, Deputy Director of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Depcirtel, Department of State circular telegram
  • Dept, Department of State
  • Deptel, outgoing Department of State telegram
  • DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
  • DL, development loan
  • DMZ, Demilitarized Zone
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • DOD/ISA, Department of Defense, International Security Affairs
  • E, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Emb, Embassy
  • Emboff, Embassy officer
  • Embtel, Embassy telegram
  • ENDC, Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee (Geneva)
  • Exdis, Exclusive Distribution (extremely limited distribution or dissemination)
  • EXIM, Export-Import Bank
  • FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • FM, Foreign Minister
  • FonMin, Foreign Minister
  • FonOff, Foreign Office
  • FRC, Federal Records Center
  • FY, fiscal year
  • FYI, for your information
  • GA, General Assembly (United Nations)
  • GAA, General Armistice Agreement
  • GNP, Gross National Product
  • GOC, Government of Canada
  • GOF, Government of France
  • GOI, Government of Israel; Government of Iran
  • GOJ, Government of Jordan
  • GOL, Government of Lebanon
  • GUAR, Government of the United Arab Republic
  • GVN, Government of Vietnam
  • H, Bureau of Congressional Relations, Department of State
  • HKJ, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
  • IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
  • IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
  • IDF, Israel Defense Forces
  • IJMAC, Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission
  • ILMAC, Israel-Lebanon Mixed Armistice Commission
  • IMF, International Monetary Fund
  • 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
  • IRG, Interdepartmental Regional Group
  • ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • ISMAC, Israel/Syria Military Armistice Commission
  • JAA, Jordan Arab Army
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum
  • L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
  • LBJ, initials of President Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Limdis, Limited distribution Office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Office of the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
  • MAC, Mixed Armistice Commission
  • MAP, Military Assistance Program
  • MATS, Military Air Transport Service
  • ME, Middle East
  • memcon, memorandum of conversation
  • MIG, A.I. Mikoyan i M.I. Gurevich (Soviet fighter aircraft named for designers Mikoyan and Gurevich)
  • MOD, Minister of Defense
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NE, Near East
  • NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • NEA/ARN, Office of Lebanon, Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic, and Iraq Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • NEA/GTI, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • NEA/IAI, Office of Israel and Arab-Israel Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • NEA/NE, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • NEA/NR, Office of Near Eastern, South Asian Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
  • NFZ, Nuclear Free Zone
  • Niact, night action, immediate reply
  • NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
  • Nodis, No distribution (other than to persons indicated)
  • Noforn, No foreign dissemination
  • NPT, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
  • NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
  • NSA, National Security Agency
  • NSC, National Security Council
  • OAU, Organization of African Unity
  • ODDI, Office of the Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
  • ONE, Office of National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
  • OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • ORR, Office of Research and Reports, Central Intelligence Agency
  • OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • PAO, Public Affairs officer
  • P.L., Public Law
  • PLA, Palestine Liberation Army
  • PLF, Palestine Liberation Front
  • PLO, Palestine Liberation Organization
  • PM, Prime Minister
  • POLAD, Political Adviser
  • PriMin, Prime Minister
  • R&D, research and development
  • reftel, reference telegram
  • Rep, Representative
  • Res, Resolution (United Nations)
  • RG, Record Group
  • RJAF, Royal Jordanian Air Force
  • S, Office of the Secretary of State
  • SAG, Saudi Arabian Government
  • SAM, surface to air missiles
  • SARG, Syrian Arab Republic Government
  • SC, Security Council (United Nations)
  • SecDef, Secretary of Defense
  • SecGen, Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • septel, separate telegram
  • SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
  • S/P, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • SSM, surface-to-surface missiles
  • Tosec, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Secretary of State (or his delegation) in connection with international conferences
  • U, Office of the Under Secretary of State
  • UAC, United Arab Command
  • UAR, United Arab Republic
  • UARG, United Arab Republic Government
  • UK, United Kingdom
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNEF, United Nations Emergency Force
  • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
  • UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • UNMOS, United Nations Military Observers
  • UNP, Office of United Nations Political Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • UNRWA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
  • UNSYG, United Nations Secretary-General
  • UNTSO, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
  • USAIRA, U.S. Air Attache
  • USDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • USDAO, U.S. Defense Attache Office
  • USDel, U.S. Delegation
  • USG, U.S. Government
  • USIA, U.S. Information Agency
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • UST, United States Treaties and Other International Agreements
  • USUN, U.S. Mission at the United Nations
  • YAR, Yemen Arab Republic
  • Z, Zulu time (Greenwich Mean Time)