Abbreviations and Terms

• addee, addressee
• AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AID, Agency for International Development
• Amb, Ambassador
• APC, Armored Personnel Carrier
• backchannel, a method of communication outside normal bureaucratic procedure; the Nixon White House, for instance, used backchannel messages to bypass the Department of State
• BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation
• C–5A, military transport aircraft designed to carry troops and heavy cargo
• CA, circular airgram
• CBU, Cluster Bomb Unit
• CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• COMINT, Communications Intelligence
• COMSEC, Communications Security
• CRA, Continuing Resolution Authority
• CSCE, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• Del, Delegation
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• Dissem, dissemination
• DOD, Department of Defense
• E and E, emergency and evacuation
• ECM, electronic countermeasures
• EEC, European Economic Community
• ELINT, Electronic Signals Intelligence
• EOB, Executive Office Building
• ERDA, Energy Research and Development Administration
• EXCOM, Executive Committee
• Exdis, Exclusive Distribution (extremely limited distribution)
• F–4, Phantom II Fighter Bomber
• FLIR, Forward Looking Infrared Radiometer
• Foxbat, NATO codename for the Soviet MIG–25 fighter jet
• FROG, Free Rocket over Ground, Soviet artillery rocket
• FMS, Foreign Military Sales
• GNP, Gross National Product
• GOE, Government of Egypt
• GOI, Government of Israel
• GOJ, Government of Jordan
• GOL, Government of Lebanon
• GOS, Government of Syria
• Hakto, series indicator for telegrams sent by Henry Kissinger
• Hawk, surface-to-air missile
• ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization
• ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross
• IDF, Israel Defense Force
• IMF, International Monetary Fund
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/RNA/NE, Office of Research and Analysis for Near East and South Asia, Near East Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• J, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Lance, mobile field artillery tactical missile
• Limdis, Limited Distribution
• LGB, laser guided bomb
• LOU, Limited Official Use
• LST, Tank Landing Ship (formally defined as Landing Ship, Tank)
• M–48, U.S. Army tank used extensively in Vietnam
• M–60, machine gun
• MEPC, Middle East Peace Conference
• MFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• MFN, Most Favored Nation
• ME, Middle East
• MEPC, Middle East Peace Conference
• MIG–23, Soviet fighter jet
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State; after April 27, 1974, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs
• NEA/ARN, Country Director for Lebanon, Jordan, Syrian Arab Republic, and Iraq Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NEA/ARP, Country Director for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, and Aden Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NEA/EGY, Country Director for Egyptian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NEA/IAI, Country Director for Israel and Arab-Israeli Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NEA/RA, Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NEA/SYR, Country Director for Syian Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• Nodis, no distribution (other than to persons indicated)
• Noforn, no foreign dissemination
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSC, National Security Council
• NSDM, National Security Decision Memorandum
• NSSM, National Security Study Memorandum
• OAPEC, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries
• OAU, Organization of African Unity
• OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• OV–1D, surveillance airplane
• PFLP, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
• PL–480, Public Law 480
• PLA, Palestine Liberation Army
• PLO, Palestine Liberation Organization
• PM, Prime Minister
• PNG, persona non grata
• POW, prisoner of war
• PRC, People′s Republic of China
• reftel, reference telegram
• Rep(s), Representative(s)
• Res, Resolution
• RG, Record Group
• RN, Richard Nixon
• rpt, repeat
• S, Office of the Secretary of State
• SA–7, Soviet portable and shoulder-fired surface to air missile
• SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
• SAM, surface-to-air missile
• SCUD, surface-to-surface missile system
• SG, Secretary General
• Secto, series indicator for telegrams sent by the Secretary of State
• septel, separate telegram
• SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• SIGINT, Signals Intelligence
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• SR–71, U.S. Air Force jet known as the Blackbird; a successor to the U–2, gathering intelligence at high altitude
• SRG, Senior Review Group; Special Review Group
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• S/S–O, Operations Center, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• TASS, Soviet news agency
• Tohak, series indicator for telegrams to Henry Kissinger
• Tosec, series indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State
• TOW, Tube-launched, Optically Tracked, Wire Guided (Anti-Tank Missile System)
• U, Office of the Under Secretary of State
• UJA, United Jewish Appeal
• UK, United Kingdom
• UN, United Nations
• UNDOF, United Nations Disengagement Observer Force
• UNEF, United Nations Emergency Force
• UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UNRWA, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
• UNTSO, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization
• USIS, United States Information Service
• USNATO, United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
• VOA, Voice of America
• WH, White House
• WSAG, Washington Special Actions Group