Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume
XXV, Arab-Israeli Crisis and War, 1973
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)