Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume
VII, Vietnam, July 1970–January 1972
Abbreviations and Terms
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40 Committee, supervisory
group established to approve, oversee, and control covert operations abroad;
chaired by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
(Kissinger)
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AAA, anti-aircraft artillery
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ABC, American Broadcasting
Company
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AID, Agency for International
Development
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AIK, Assistance-in-kind
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Amb, Ambassador
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AP, Associated Press
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ARC LIGHT, code name for U.S.
B–52 bombing missions in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
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ARVN, Army of the Republic of (South)
Vietnam
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Avenue Kléber, shorthand for
the public plenary talks held at the International Conference Center on
Avenue Kléber in Paris
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BDA, bomb damage assessment
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BG, Brigadier General
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BI, Battalion d’Infanterie or Infantry
Battalion
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Binh Tram, military way station
on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
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BP, Battalion Parachutiste or Paratroop
Battalion
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BT, see Binh Tram
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BT, Battalion Territoriale or
Territorial Battalion
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BV, Battalion Volontaire or Volunteer
Battalion
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CAS, Controlled American Source
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CBS, Columbia Broadcasting
System
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CHENLA II, a FANK operation with U.S. air support, begun
August 20, 1971, to reopen Cambodian Route 6, a key link between Phnom Penh
and Kompong Thom
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Cherokee, a special
communications channel established for highly sensitive State Department
messages
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ChiCom, Chinese Communist(s)
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Chieu Hoi, South Vietnamese
program to encourage defections by the Viet Cong to the Government of
(South) Vietnam
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Chup (also spelled Chhup) rubber
plantation, base for Vietnamese Communist military units and a target for
South Vietnamese operations in 1970–1971
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CIA, Central Intelligence
Agency
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CINCPAC, Commander-in-Chief
Pacific Command
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CJCS, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
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CNO, Chief of Naval Operations
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COMMANDO HUNT, U.S. air
interdiction campaigns in southern Laos, begun in November 1968, to
interdict the flow of material on the Ho Chi
Minh Trail from North to South Vietnam
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COMINT, Communications
Intelligence
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COMUSMACV, Commander, U.S.
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
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CORDS, Civil Operations and
Revolutionary (later Rural) Development Support
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COSVN, Central Office of South
Vietnam; Communist political and military headquarters for the southern half
of South Vietnam
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DCI, Director of Central
Intelligence
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DDI, Deputy Director of Intelligence,
Central Intelligence Agency
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DDO, Deputy Director for Operations,
Joint Staff, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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DIA, Defense Intelligence
Agency
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DMZ, demilitarized zone, established
roughly at Vietnam’s 17th parallel to a width not more than five kilometers
each side of the demilitarized zone line
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DMZL, demilitarized zone line, also
called demarcation line, which separated South Vietnam and North Vietnam,
located in middle of demilitarized zone
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DOD, Department of Defense
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DOD/ISA, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
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DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
(North Vietnam)
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EOB, Executive Office Building
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Exdis, exclusive distribution
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FANK,
Forces Armées Nationales Khmères (Khmer Republic
Armed Forces [Cambodia])
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FAR,
Forces Armees Royales (Royal Armed Forces
[Laos])
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Flash, precedence indicator for an
extremely urgent message which requires instant action by the addressees
regardless of the time of day or night
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FSB, fire support base
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GOC, Government of Cambodia
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GVN, Government of (South)
Vietnam
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GKR, Government of Khmer Republic
(Cambodia)
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HAK,
Henry A. Kissinger
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HES, Hamlet Evaluation System, begun
in 1967 to rate individual villages in South Vietnam according to
6-critieria of how secure they were
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Highest Authority,
President of the United States
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Hmong, ethnic minority in Laotian
hill country
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Hue, major city in northern South
Vietnam and capital of former Vietnamese empire
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ICC, International Control Commission,
established under the 1954 Geneva Accords and incorporated into the 1962
Geneva agreement on Laos
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INR/IL, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Office of Information Liaison, Department of State
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Ivory Coast, pre-operational
phase of attempt to rescue U.S. prisoners of war at Son Tay facility in
North Vietnam
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ISB, International Supervisory
Body
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J–3, Operations Directorate of a Joint
Staff
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JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Memorandum
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JGS, Joint General Staff, Republic of
Vietnam Armed Forces
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Khmer Krom, Indigenous ethnic
Khmer minority living in South Vietnam
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KIA, killed in action
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King Pin (also called Kingpin),
operational phase of attempt to rescue U.S. POWs from Son Tay facility in North Vietnam, November
1970
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LAM SON (also LAMSON) 719, a
February–March 1971 operation in Laos by South Vietnamese forces to
interdict the Ho Chi Minh
Trail
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LOC, line of communication
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LPF, Lao Patriotic Front, political
arm of the Pathet Lao
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LTG, Lieutenant General
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MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory
Group
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MACV, Military Assistance Command,
Vietnam
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MACVSOG, Military Assistance
Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observation Group, organization that planned
and carried out covert operations against North Vietnam; often called
MACSOG
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MAP, Military Assistance
Program
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MASF, Military assistance
service-funded
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MATS, Mobile Advisory Team
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MEDT, Military Equipment Delivery
Team
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Meo,
see
Hmong
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MR, Military Region; Government of
Vietnam divided the country into four zones for military and administrative
purposes; MR1 contained the five northernmost
provinces of South Vietnam, MR2 included
provinces in the central and north central sections, MR3 was made up of the south central part of the country and
included Saigon, and MR4 in the Mekong Delta
held the rest of the country; sometimes an MR
was also called a Corps Tactical Zone
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MSQ Radar, A ground-based radar
system developed by the U.S. Air Force to guide aircraft to targets
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NATO, North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
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NIE, National Intelligence
Estimate
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NLF, National Liberation Front
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Nodis, No Distribution, Department
of State telegram notation
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NSA, National Security Agency
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NSC, National Security Council
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NSDF, National Social Democratic
Front
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NSDM, National Security Decision
Memorandum
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NSSM, National Security Study
Memorandum
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NVA, North Vietnamese Army, also
PAVN
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NVN, North Vietnam
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OMB, Office of Management and
Budget
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OSD, Office of the Secretary of
Defense
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Paris Peace Talks, public
talks between U.S. and GVN on one side and
the DRV and PRG (NLF) on the other; also
known as Plenary or Avenue Kléber
talks
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PAVN, People’s Army of Vietnam, also
NVA
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PDJ,
Plaine Des Jarres (Plain of Jars), strategically
important area of Laos
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Phoenix, The Phoenix Program was a joint U.S. and
Vietnamese government intelligence program, which aimed at identifying and
locating the Viet Cong infrastructure in the villages and capturing its
membership, particularly the leadership, to gather intelligence
information.
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PFIAB, President’s Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board
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POL, Files of political orientation
from the Department of State Central Files
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POL, Petroleum Oil Lubricant
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POW, prisoner of war
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PRC, People’s Republic of (Communist)
China
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PRAIRIE FIRE, a program of
American led cross-border reconnaissance and exploitation patrols into
eastern Laos
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PRG, Provisional Revolutionary
Government, political wing of the South Vietnamese Communist movement,
replaced the NLF, but often terms were used
interchangeably.
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PRU, Provincial Reconnaissance Unit, a
key tactical element in South Vietnamese attempt to neutralize and eliminate
the Viet Cong infrastructure
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PS, Pakse Site
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PSDF, Peoples Self-Defense Forces
(South Vietnam)
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PSYOPS, Psychological
Operations
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PTF, Patrol Torpedo Fast (Boat)
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RADM, Rear Admiral
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RCT, Regimental Combat Team
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REFTEL, reference telegram
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RF/PF, Regional Forces/Popular
Forces, respectively South Vietnamese provincial and district security
(militia) forces
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RG, Record Group
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RLA, Royal Lao Army
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RLAF, Royal Lao Air Force
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RLG, Royal Lao Government
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RTG, Royal Thai Government
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RVN, Republic of Vietnam (South
Vietnam)
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RVNAF, Republic of (South) Vietnam
Armed Forces
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SAVA, Special Assistant for
Vietnamese Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
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SEA, Southeast Asia
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SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization
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SECDEF, Secretary of Defense
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SECSTATE, Secretary of
State
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SGU, Special Guerrilla Unit
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SILVER BUCKLE, United States
army operations to interdict, mine, and disrupt enemy lines of communication
in an area of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
south of Tchepone
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SNIE, Special National Intelligence
Estimate
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SRG, Senior Review Group
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STEEL TIGER, United States air
operations over the northern portion of the Laotian panhandle designed to
interdict the Ho Chi Minh
Trail
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STOL, short takeoff and
landing
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SVN, South Vietnam
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TACAIR, Tactical Air
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TACAN, Tactical Air Navigation, a
line-of-sight air navigation system that operates with a beacon.
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Tag Board, unmanned “drone”
aircraft used for high-speed, high-altitude reconnaissance
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TCC, Troop Contributing
Countries
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TCN, Third Country National
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TDY, Temporary Duty
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UPI, United Press International
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USA, United States Army
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USAF, United States Air Force
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USG, United States Government
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USN, United States Navy
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USIA, United States Information
Agency
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USIB, United States Intelligence
Board
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VC, Viet Cong
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Viet Minh,
Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh (League for the
Independence of Vietnam), a Communist-led coalition, formed in 1941, that
fought the Japanese in World War II and the French in the Indochina
War
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VOA, Voice of America
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VSSG, Vietnam Special Studies
Group
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WSAG, Washington Special Actions
Group
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Z, Zulu, time designator on White House,
Departments of State and Defense messages/cables based on Greenwich Mean,
aka Coordinated Universal, Time