Office of the Historian

Abbreviations

  • AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
  • AID, Agency for International Development
  • ANC, Air Navigation Commission/Council
  • APQ, Annual Programmed Quantity
  • ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
  • ARAMCO, Arabian American Oil Company
  • ASAP, as soon as possible
  • BAC, British Aerospace Corporation
  • b/d, barrels per day
  • BP, British Petroleum
  • BPD, barrels per day
  • CAA, Civil Aeronautics Administration
  • CAB, Civil Aeronautics Board
  • Cedto, series indicator for telegrams from the Mission to European Regional Organizations in Paris to the Department of State
  • CETS, European Committee for Telecommunications Satellites
  • CFP, Compagnie Francaise des Petroles
  • CNAD, Conference of National Armaments Directors
  • CNES, French National Space Agency (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales)
  • CNET, Centre National d’Etudes des Telecommunications
  • COB, close of business
  • COMSAT, Communications Satellite Corporation
  • cos, companies
  • COSPAR, Consultative Committee of the International Committee on Space Research
  • CSC, Communications Satellite Corporation
  • Deptel, Department of State telegram
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • ECOSOC, Economic, Cultural and Social Committee of the United Nations
  • ECSC, European Conference on Satellite Communications
  • EE, Eastern Europe
  • ELDO, European Launcher Development Organization
  • ENI, Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi
  • EPSC, Emergency Petroleum Supply Committee
  • ERAP, Enterprise de Recherches et d’Activites Petrolieres
  • ESRO, European Space Research Organization
  • EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • FAA, Federal Aviation Administration
  • FAUSST, French-Anglo-U.S. Supersonic Transport Group
  • FCC, Federal Communications Commission
  • Fr, France; French
  • GA, UN General Assembly
  • GOC, Government of Canada; Government of Cuba
  • GOI, Government of Iraq; Government of Iran
  • GOP, Government of Portugal
  • GOT, Government of Turkey
  • HEW, Department of Health, Education and Welfare
  • HMG, Her Majesty’s Government
  • IATA, International Air Transport Association
  • ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization
  • ICSC, Interim Communication Satellite Corporation
  • ICY, International Cooperation Year
  • INOC, Iraq National Oil Company
  • INTELSAT, International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium
  • IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • IPC, Iraq Petroleum Company
  • ITU, International Telecommunications Union
  • KOC, Kuwait Oil Company
  • LDC, less-developed countries
  • LE, Egyptian pounds
  • Leo, Leopoldville
  • MINECON, Ministry of Economics
  • MOA, Ministry of Aviation
  • MOL, Manned Orbiting Laboratory
  • MWD, Metropolitan Water District
  • NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • NASC, National Aeronautics and Space Council
  • NATUS, series indicator for telegrams from the Department of State to the Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NCS, National Communications System
  • NIOC, National Iranian Oil Company
  • NOA, new obligational authority
  • NSF, National Science Foundation
  • OAPEC, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • OST, Office of Science and Technology
  • PAHO, Pan American Health Organization
  • PM, Prime Minister
  • POL, petroleum, oil, and lubricants
  • PSAC, President’s Scientific Advisory Committee
  • R&D, research and development
  • SAG, Saudi Arabian Government
  • SARG, Syrian Government
  • SCI, Office of Science and Technology, Department of State
  • SecGen, Secretary General
  • Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State while away from Washington
  • SEPR, Societe d’Etude de la Propulsion par Reaction
  • SIG, Senior Interdepartmental Group
  • Sitrep, situation report
  • SOCAL, Standard Oil Company of California
  • SOCONJ, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Esso)
  • SOCONY, Standard Oil Company of New York (Mobil)
  • S/P, Policy Planning Council, Department of State
  • S/PM, Office of the Special Assistant to Secretary of State Rusk for Population Matters
  • S/S–O, Secretariat Staff, Operations Center, Department of State
  • SYG, Secretary-General
  • Tosec, series indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State while away from Washington
  • UGTA, Algerian labor union
  • UNGA, UN General Assembly
  • UK, United Kingdom
  • UNCTAD, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  • USG, United States Government
  • USRO, Mission of the Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics