Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume
XVI, Soviet Union, August 1974–December 1976
Abbreviations and Terms
- AASO, Afro-Asian
Solidarity Organization
- ABM, anti-ballistic
missile
- ACDA, Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency
- AD, Anatoly F.
Dobrynin
- AFL–CIO, American
Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations
- AFP,
Agence France-Presse, French news agency
- ALCM, air-launched
cruise missile
- Amb,
Ambassador
- AP, Associated
Press
- APAG, Atlantic
Policy Advisory Group
- ASAP, as soon as
possible
- ASM, air-to-sea
missile
- ASW, anti-submarine
warfare
- B, Brezhnev
- bpd, barrels per
day
- BW, biological
weapons
- C, Office of the
Counselor of the Department of State
- CBM,
confidence-building measure
- CBS, Columbia
Broadcasting System
- CCD, Conference of
the Committee on Disarmament
- CDT, Central Daylight
Time
- CDC, Control Data
Corporation
- CDU, Christian
Democratic Union
- CDU/CSU, Christian
Democratic Union/Christian Social Union
- CEA, Council of
Economic Advisers
- CEP, circular error
probable; circular error probability
- CES, Conference on
European Security
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- COCOM, Coordinating
Committee on Export Controls
- CPSU, Communist
Party of the Soviet Union
- CSCE, Conference on
Security and Cooperation in Europe
- CSU, Christian Social
Union
- CTB, Comprehensive
Test Ban
- CW, chemical
weapons
- D, Democrat; also
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
- DCI, Director of
Central Intelligence
- Dept,
Department
- Deptel, Department
of State telegram
- Dissem,
dissemination
- DOD, Department of
Defense
- DOS, Department of
State
- DRV, Democratic
Republic of Vietnam
- EA, Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
- EB, Bureau of Economic
and Business Affairs, Department of State
- EB/EWT, Office of
East-West Trade, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of
State
- EB/ITP, Office of
International Trade Policy, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs,
Department of State
- EC, European
Community
- EDT, Eastern Daylight
Time
- Emb, Embassy
- EPB, Economic Policy
Board
- ERDA, Energy
Research and Development Administration
- ESC, European
Security Conference
- EST, Eastern Standard
Time
- ETA, estimated time
of arrival
- EUR, Bureau of
European Affairs, Department of State
- EUR/SOV, Office of
Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
- Exdis, exclusive
distribution (extremely limited distribution)
- EXIM (or Ex-Im),
Export-Import Bank of Washington
- FBI, Federal Bureau
of Investigation
- FBS, forward-based
systems
- FEA, Federal Energy
Administration; Federal Environmental Agency (West German)
- FNLA,
Frente Nacional de Libertacao de Angola (National
Liberation Front of Angola)
- FRG, Federal Republic
of Germany
- FYI, for your
information
- GATT, General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GDR, German
Democratic Republic
- GNP, gross national
product
- GPO, Government
Printing Office
- GRF, Gerald R.
Ford
- GVN, Government of
(South) Vietnam
- HAK, Henry A.
Kissinger
- Hakto, series
indicator for message sent from Henry A. Kissinger while away from
Washington
- HE, high
explosive
- H.E., His
Excellency
- HEW, Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
- HK, Henry
Kissinger
- IBM, International
Business Machines Corporation
- ICBM,
intercontinental ballistic missile
- ICCM,
intercontinental cruise missile
- IEA, International
Energy Agency
- ILO, International
Labor Organization
- IMARSAT,
International Maritime Satellite
- INR, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/REA, Office of
Research and Analysis for East Asia and Pacific, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Department of State
- INR/RES, Office of
Research and Analysis for Europe and the Soviet Union, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/PMT, Office of
Political-Military and Theatre forces, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
- K, Kissinger
- KGB,
Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (State Security
Committee)
- km, kilometer
- kt, kiloton
- LBJ, Lyndon B.
Johnson
- LDC, lesser developed
country
- LNG, liquefied
natural gas
- LTBT, Limited Test
Ban Treaty
- MBFR, Mutual and
Balanced Force Reductions
- Memcon, memorandum
of conversation
- MFN, Most Favored
Nation
- MIA, missing in
action
- MIRV, multiple
independently-targetable re-entry vehicle
- MM, Minuteman
(missile)
- MPLA,
Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (Popular
Movement for the Liberation of Angola)
- MRV, multiple
re-entry vehicle
- MT, megaton
- MTN, multilateral
trade negotiations
- NAACP, National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- NASA, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NATO, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
- NBC, National
Broadcasting Corporation
- NIE, National
Intelligence Estimate
- Nodis, no
distribution (other than to personas indicated)
- Noforn, no foreign
distribution
- NPT, (Nuclear)
Non-Proliferation Treaty
- NSA, National
Security Agency
- NSC, National
Security Council
- NSCIC, National
Security Council Intelligence Committee
- NSDM, National
Security Decision Memorandum
- NSSM, National
Security Study Memorandum
- OAS, Organization of
American States
- OAU, Organization of
African Unity
- OMB, Office of
Management and Budget
- OPEC, Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- P, President
- PA, Public
Affairs
- PA/M, Office of Plans
and Management, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
- PFLP, Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine
- PL, Public Law
- PLO, Palestine
Liberation Organization
- PNE, Peaceful Nuclear
Explosions
- POW, prisoner of
war
- PRC, People’s
Republic of China
- prepcon,
preparatory conference
- PRG, Provisional
Revolutionary Government
- R, Republican
- R&D, research and
development
- Ref, reference
- RG, Record
Group
- RPV, remotely piloted
vehicle
- RSA, Republic of
South Africa
- RV, re-entry
vehicle
- S, Office of the
Secretary of State, or Secretary
- SALT, Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks
- SAR, South African
Republic (Republic of South Africa)
- SAM, surface-to-air
missile
- SCC, Standing
Consultative Commission
- septel, separate
telegram
- SFRC, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee
- SLBM,
submarine-launched ballistic missile
- SLCM,
submarine-launched cruise missile
- SOTU, State of the
Union
- Sov, Soviet
- SOV, Office of Soviet
Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
- S/P, Policy Planning
Staff, Department of State
- SRAM, short-range
attack missile
- STR, Special Trade
Representative
- SU, Soviet
Union
- TASS,
Telegrafnoe Agenstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza (Telegram
Agency of the Soviet Union)
- telcon, telephone
conversation
- Tohak, series
indicator for message sent to Henry A. Kissinger while away from
Washington
- TTB, Threshold Test
Ban
- UAW, United Auto
Workers
- UK, United
Kingdom
- UN, United
Nations
- UNEF, United Nations
Emergency Force
- UNGA, United Nations
General Assembly
- UNITA,
Uniao Nacional para e Independencia Total de Angola
(National Union for the Total Independence of Angola)
- US, United
States
- USDA, United States
Department of Agriculture
- USDel, United
States Delegation/Delegate
- USIB, United States
Intelligence Board
- USSR, Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics
- V–E, Victory in
Europe
- VFW, Veterans of
Foreign Wars
- VIP, very important
person
- VP, Verification
Panel; Vice President
- WH, White House
- WHCA, White House
Communications Agency
- Z, Zulu Time (Greenwich
Mean Time)