Abbreviations and Terms

• AAA, anti-aircraft artillery
• addee, addressee
• AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
• AID, Agency for International Development
• Amb, Ambassador
• APC, armored personnel carrier
• Aramco, Arabian American Oil Company
• ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
• BAM, (Straits of) Bab al-Mandeb
• BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation
• BSO, Black September Organization
• CBU, cluster bomb
• CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation
• CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CINCEUR, Commander in Chief, U.S. Forces, Europe
• CINCMEAFSA, Commander in Chief, Middle East/South Asia and Africa South of the Sahara
• CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific
• CINCSTRIKE, Commander in Chief, Strike Command
• CJCS, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• COMINT, communications intelligence
• COMUSFORAZ, Commander, U.S. Forces, Azores
• COSVN, Central Office for South Vietnam
• CSCE, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• CY, calendar year
• DAO, Defense Attaché Office
• DATT, defense attaché
• DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
• DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
• DEFCON, Defense Condition
• Dept, Department of State
• Deptel, Department of State telegram
• Deptoff, Department of State officer
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• DI/OER, Office of Economic Research, Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
• DirGen, Director General
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DOD/ISA, Department of Defense, International Security Affairs
• DPRC, Defense Program Review Committee
• DSD, Deputy Secretary of Defense
• EC, European Community
• ECM, electronic countermeasure
• EDT, Eastern Daylight Time
• ELINT, electronic intelligence
• EmbOff, Embassy officer
• EST, Eastern Standard Time
• Exdis, Exclusive Distribution (extremely limited distribution)
• EXIM, Export-Import Bank
• FAO, Food and Agricultural Organization
• FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
• FMS, Foreign Military Sales
• FonMin, Foreign Minister
• FonOff, Foreign Office
• FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
• FROG, Free-Rocket-Over-Ground
• FY, fiscal year
• FYI, for your information
• GA, General Assembly (United Nations)
• Gen., General
• GMT, Greenwich Mean Time
• GNP, Gross National Product
• GOA, Government of Algeria
• GOE, Government of Egypt
• GOI, Government of Israel
• GOJ, Government of Jordan
• GOL, Government of Lebanon
• HAK, Henry A. Kissinger
• Hakto, series indicator for telegrams from Henry Kissinger
• Helo(s), helicopter(s)
• HHS, Harold H. Saunders
• HUMINT, human intelligence
• IAEC, Israel Atomic Energy Commission
• IAF, Israeli Air Force
• IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
• ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization
• ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross
• IDA, Institute for Defense Analysis
• IDF, Israeli Defense Forces
• 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 Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• IRG, Interdepartmental Regional Group
• JAA, Jordan Arab Army
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff Memorandum
• K, Henry A. Kissinger
• KGB, Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (State Security Committee) (USSR)
• KM, kilometer
• LAW, light anti-tank weapon
• LIG, Legislative Interdepartmental Group
• Limdis, Limited Distribution
• LSE, Lawrence S. Eagleburger
• LTA, light transport aircraft
• MAC, Military Airlift Command (U.S. Air Force)
• MAC, Military Assistance Commission
• MAP, Military Assistance Program
• MASF, Military Assistance Service Funded
• MBFR, Mutual Balanced Force Reduction
• M.B.P.D., million barrels per day
• ME, Middle East
• Memcon, Memorandum of Conversation
• MFN, Most Favored Nation
• MIG, A.I Mikoyan i M.I. Gurevich (commonly, the model of Soviet fighter aircraft named for aircraft designers Mikoyan and Gurevich)
• MG, Major General
• MilAtt, Military Attaché
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• 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/EGY, Office of Egypt 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
• NESA, Near East and South Asia
• NMCC, National Military Command Center
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• NIC, National Intelligence Council
• NoDis, No Distribution (other than to persons indicated)
• Noforn, No Foreign Dissemination
• Notal, not received by all addressees
• NPT, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSC, National Security Council
• NSCIC, National Security Council Intelligence Committee
• OAPEC, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
• OASD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• OAU, Organization of African Unity
• OBE, overtaken by events
• OMB, Office of Management and Budget
• OC/T, Communications Center, Bureau of Administration, Department of State
• OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• PCC, Palestine Conciliation Commission (United Nations)
• PermRep, Permanent Representative (United Nations)
• PFLOP, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
• PFLP, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
• PHOTINT, photographic intelligence
• P.L., Public Law
• PLO, Palestine Liberation Organization
• PM, PriMin, PrMin, Prime Minister
• POL, petroleum, oil, and lubricants; political
• PolOff, Political Officer
• POW, prisoner of war
• PRC, People’s Republic of China
• PRCLO, Liaison Office of the People’s Republic of China
• Ref, reference
• reftel, reference telegram
• Rep(s), Representatives
• Res., Resolution (United Nations)
• RG, Record Group
• SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
• SAM, surface-to-air missile
• SARG, Syrian Arab Republic Government
• SC, Security Council (United Nations)
• SecDef, Secretary of Defense
• Sec. Gen., Secretary General
• SecState, Secretary of State
• Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State
• septel, separate telegram
• SIGINT, signals intelligence
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• SOB, son of a bitch (an expletive)
• SUMED, Suez Mediterranean pipeline
• SYG, Secretary-General (United Nations)
• TAC, Tactical Air Command
• TASS, Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union), Soviet news agency
• TDY, Temporary duty telcon, telephone conversation
• TIAS, Treaties and International Acts Series
• Tohak, series indicator for telegrams to Henry Kissinger
• Tosec, series indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State
• TOW, tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire command data link, anti-tank missile
• TS, top secret
• U, unclassified
• UAR, United Arab Republic
• UK, United Kingdom
• UN, United Nations
• UNEF, United Nations Emergency Force
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UNRWA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
• UNSC, United Nations Security Council
• UNTSO, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
• US, United States
• USA, United States of America; United States Army
• USAF, United States Air Force
• USCINCEUR, United States Commander-in-Chief, Europe
• USDAO, United States Defense Attaché Office
• USG, United States Government
• USIB, United States Intelligence Board
• USINT, United States Interests Section
• USN, United States Navy
• USNATO, United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• USRep(s), United States Representatives
• USS, United States Ship
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• UST, United States Treaties and Other International Agreements
• USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
• WH, White House
• WSAG, Washington Special Actions Group
• Z, zulu time (Greenwich Mean Time)