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