Abbreviations

• AC&W, aircraft control and warning
• AFP, Agence France Presse
• AID, Agency for International Development
• AID/W, Agency for International Development Headquarters in Washington
• Amb, Ambassador
• APC, armored personnel carrier
• APQ, Annual Programmed Quantity
• ARAMCO, Arabian-American Oil Company
• ARMISH/MAAG, U.S. Army Mission in Iran/Military Assistance Advisory Group
• Atty, attorney
• BAR, Browning Automatic Rifle
• BG, Brigadier General
• BOB, Bureau of the Budget
• BPD, barrels per day
• CAS, Controlled American Source
• CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
• CEP, circular error probable
• CFP, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles
• ChiCom, Chinese Communist
• CI, Counter Insurgency
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CIC, Counter Intelligence Corps
• CINCMEAFSA, Commander in Chief, Middle East/South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara
• CINCSTRIKE, Commander in Chief, Strike Command
• CONUS, Continental United States
• CT, Country Team
• CY, calendar year
• DASD, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
• DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
• DELAWAR, U.S.-Iran military, naval, and air force training exercise carried out under CENTO April 4–11, 1964
• DepSec, Deputy Secretary
• Dept, Department of State
• Deptel, Department of State telegram
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DOD/ISA, Department of Defense, International Security Affairs
• DOD/ISA/NESA, Department of Defense, International Security Affairs, Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
• ELINT, electronic intelligence
• Embtel, Embassy telegram
• ERAP, Entreprise de Recherches et d’Activites Petrolieres
• EUR/SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• Exdis, executive distribution
• EXIM, Export-Import Bank
• FAA, Federation of Arab Amirates
• FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• FMS, foreign military sales
• FonMin, Foreign Minister
• FRC, Federal Records Center
• FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
• FY, fiscal year
• FYI, for your information
• GNP, gross national product
• GOI, Government of Iran
• G/PM, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
• HIM, His Imperial Majesty
• IAF, Iranian Air Force
• IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
• IDP, Internal Defense Plan (Iran)
• IFC, International Finance Corporation
• IIAF, Imperial Iranian Air Force
• IIF, Imperial Iranian Forces
• IIG, Imperial Iranian Gendarmerie
• IMF, International Monetary Fund
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/RNA, Office of Research and Analysis for Near East and South Asia, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• IO, Bureau of International Organization, Department of State
• IRG, Interdepartmental Regional Group
• ISA, Iranian Students Association
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum
• JFK, John F. Kennedy
• Komar, Soviet missile-carrying PT boats
• LBJ, Lyndon B. Johnson
• Limdis, limited distribution
• LMG, light machine gun
• L/NEA, Assistant Legal Adviser for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
• MAP, Military Assistance Program
• ME, Middle East
• memcon, memorandum of conversation
• MRP, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NATUS, series indicator for communications from the Department of State to the U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NEA/GTI, Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iran Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NEA/IRN, Office of the Country Director for Iran, 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
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• NIMCOM, National Military Communications Systems
• NIOC, National Iranian Oil Company
• Nodis, no distribution
• Noforn, no foreign dissemination
• NPT, Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
• NRM, National Resistance Movement (Kurdish)
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
• NSC, National Security Council
• NYHT, New York Herald Tribune
• NYU, New York University
• OASD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• OBE, overtaken by events
• OCI, Office of Current Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
• ODDI, Office of the Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
• OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• Pak, Pakistan; Pakistani
• PanAm, Pan American Airlines
• PGM, motor gunboat
• PIW, Petroleum Intelligence Weekly
• PL, Public Law
• PM, Prime Minister
• POLAD, Political Adviser
• PTT, Postes, Telegraphes, Telephones
• RCAP, Royal Canadian Air Force
• RCD, Regional Cooperation for Development (formed among the regional members of CENTO—Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan—1964)
• R & D, research and development
• reftel, reference telegram
• Rep, representative
• S/AH, Office of the Ambassador at Large
• SAM, surface-to-air missiles
• SAMAA, Special Assistant for Military Assistance Affairs, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• SAVAK, Iranian Intelligence and Security Organization (Sazman-i Ittili’at va Amniyat-i Kishvar)
• SC, Security Council (UN)
• SCS, Supreme Commander’s Staff
• SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
• SecDef, Secretary of Defense
• Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State (or his delegation) at international conferences to the Department of State
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• Sov, Soviet(s) STRATCOM Strategic Command
• STRICOM, Strike Command
• TIAS, Treaties and International Acts Series
• Topol, series indicator for telegrams to the U.S. Mission in Paris, NATO, and USRO
• TUPAIR, economic and cultural cooperation among Turkey, Pakistan, and Iran
• UAR, United Arab Republic
• UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles
• UK, United Kingdom
• UN, United Nations
• UNEF, United Nations Emergency Force
• UNSC, United Nations Security Council
• UNSYG, United Nations Secretary-General
• UPT, undergraduate pilot training
• USAF, United States Air Force
• USG, United States Government
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USIB, United States Intelligence Board
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• UST, United States Treaties and Other International Agreements
• USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
• VIP, very important person