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)