List of Terms & Abbreviations

• ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
• ADB, Asian Development Bank
• AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
• AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
• AID, Agency for International Development
• AID/AA/Asia, Bureau for Asia, Agency for International Development
• AID/PPC, Bureau for Program and Policy Coordination, Agency for International Development
• AK–47, Soviet-built assault rifle
• ALP, Australian Labor Party
• AMB, Ambassador
• ANZUS, Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty
• AP, Associated Press
• APC, Armored Personnel Carrier
• AR, Albanian Resolution (United Nations)
• ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
• ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam
• ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• BOP, balance of payments
• BS, Brent Scowcroft
• C, Confidential
• CEA, Council of Economic Advisers
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CIEP, Council on International Economic Policy (United States)
• CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific
• CINCUNC, Commander in Chief, United Nations Command
• COMNAVFORJAPAN, Commander, Naval Forces, Japan
• COMSEVENTHFLT, Commander, Seventh Fleet
• COMUS, Commander U.S. Forces
• CONGEN, Consulate General
• CONUS, Continental United States
• CPM, Communist Party of Malaysia
• CRA, Continuing Resolution Authority
• CSCE, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• DAS, Deputy Assistant Secretary
• DASD, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Department of Defense)
• DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
• DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission, United States Embassy
• DE, Destroyer Escort
• DEPTEL, Department of State telegram
• DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
• DIS or DISS., dissemination
• DMZ, Demilitarized Zone
• DOD, Department of Defense
• DOD/ISA, Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• DOJ, Department of Justice
• DOS, Department of State
• DPRK, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• DR, Dual Representation (United Nations)
• DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
• DSAA, Defense Security Assistance Agency (Department of Defense)
• DSP, Democratic Socialist Party (Japan)
• E, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
• EA, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
• EA/ANP, Office of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Pacific Island Affairs, Department of State
• EA/IMS, Office of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, Department of State
• EA/J, Office of Japanese Affairs, Department of State
• EA/K, Office of Korean Affairs, Department of State
• EA/P, Public Affairs Advisor, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
• EA/PHL, Office of Philippines Affairs, Department of State
• EA/RA, Office of Regional Affairs at the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
• EA/TB, Office of Thailand and Burma, Department of State
• Eagle Pull, a U.S. military operation for evacuating personnel from Phnom Penh during an emergency
• EAP, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
• EAPA, East Asia and Pacific Affairs, International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
• EAPR, East Asia and Pacific Region, Department of Defense
• EB, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
• ECONCOM, Joint U.S.-Japan Economic Committee Meeting at the cabinet level
• EMBTEL, embassy telegram
• ERDA, Energy Research and Development Administration
• EUR/IB, Office of Iberian Affairs, Department of State
• EXDIS, exclusive distribution (indicates extremely limited dissemination)
• EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• F–4, (U.S. fighter-bomber aircraft)
• F–5E, (U.S. fighter aircraft)
• FAC, Foreign Assets Control
• FANK, Cambodian Armed Forces
• FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
• FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
• FCN, Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation (Treaty)
• FMS, Foreign Military Sales
• FONMIN, foreign minister
• FONSEC, Foreign Secretary
• FRC, Federal Records Center (U.S.)
• FRD, formerly restricted data
• FSO, Foreign Service Officer
• FT, foreign trade
• FY, fiscal year
• FYI, for your information
• GA, General Assembly (United Nations)
• GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
• GIMO, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)
• GKR, Government of Khmer Republic
• GNP, gross national product
• GOA, Government of Australia
• GOI, Government of Indonesia
• GOJ, Government of Japan
• GOP, Government of the Philippines
• GOVT, Government
• GPO, Government Printing Office (U.S.)
• GRC, Government of the Republic of China.
• GSP, Generalized System of Preferences
• GVN, government of Vietnam (South)
• H, Bureau of Congressional Relations, Department of State
• HAK, Henry A. Kissinger
• HICOM/HICOMRY, High Commissioner of the Ryukyu Islands
• HK, Hong Kong; initials for Henry Kissinger
• HQ, headquarters
• IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
• IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
• ICCS, International Commission of Control and Supervision
• IG, Interdepartmental Group
• IGGI, Inter-Governmental Group on Indonesia
• IMF, International Monetary Fund
• INFO, information
• INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• INR/EAP, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, East Asia and the Pacific
• INR/REA, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and Pacific
• INTEL, intelligence
• IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• IO/UNP, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Office of United Nations Political Affairs
• IPS, Office of Information Programs and Services (Department of State)
• IQ, important question (United Nations)
• IRBM, intermediate range ballistic missile
• ISA, Bureau of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
• ITAC, Interagency Textile Administrative Committee
• JAEC, Japanese Atomic Energy Commission
• JCRC, Joint Casualty Resolution Center
• JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff memorandum
• JDA, Japanese Defense Agency
• JFY, Japanese fiscal year
• JGLO, Japanese Government Liaison Office, Ryukyu Islands
• JHH, John Herbert Holdridge
• JSA, Joint Security Area (Korea)
• JSDF, Japanese Self-Defense Forces
• JSP, Japanese Socialist Party
• JUSMAGTHAI, Joint United States Military Advisory Group Thailand
• KC, Khmer (Cambodian) Communists
• KCP, Khmer (Cambodian) Communist Party
• Khmer Rouge, Khmer (Cambodian) Communists
• KMT, Kuomintang (Nationalist Party, ROC), also called the Guomindang (GMD)
• KPA, Korean People’s Army
• L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
• L/EA, Assistant Legal Adviser for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
• LC, Laos-Cambodia
• LDP, Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
• LIMDIS, limited distribution (see also EXDIS)
• LSD, Landing Ship, Dock
• M, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Management
• M16, U.S.-manufactured assault rifle
• MAC, Military Armistice Commission (Korea)
• MACTHAI, Military Assistance Command, Thailand
• MAP, Military Assistance/Aid Program
• MASF, military assistance service-funded
• MBA, Military Base Agreement
• MDAA, Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement
• MDT, Mutual Defense Treaty
• MEMCON, memorandum of conversation
• MFA, Multifiber Agreement
• MIA, Missing-in-Action
• MITI, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan)
• mm, millimeter
• MND, Minister or Ministry of National Defense; Mission Need Determination (Department of Defense)
• MNLF, Moro National Liberation Front (Philippines)
• MOD, Minister/Ministry of Defense
• MSP, Minimum Safeguard Price
• MST, Mutual Security Treaty (United States-Japan)
• MTN, Multilateral Trade Negotiations
• NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NF, no foreign dissemination
• NIACT, night action (indicator of precedence level in a telegraphed message)
• NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
• NIO, National Intelligence Officer
• NODIS, no distribution
• NOFORN, no foreign dissemination
• NOTAL, not all (telegram A, referenced in telegram B, was not sent to all the recipients of telegram B)
• NPT, Nonproliferation Treaty
• NPW, Nuclear Powered Warship
• NSA, National Security Agency
• NSC, National Security Council
• NSDM, National Security Decision Memorandum
• NSSM, National Security Study Memorandum
• NVA, North Vietnamese Army
• NZ, New Zealand
• O&M, operation and maintenance (Department of Defense)
• OASD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
• OBE, overtaken by events
• OCI, Office of Current Intelligence (Central Intelligence Agency)
• ODDPA&E/ISA, Office of the Director of Defense Program Analysis and Evaluation/International Security Affairs
• OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• OEO, Office of Economic Opportunity
• OMB, Office of Management and Budget
• OMSN, Office of Micronesian Status Negotiations
• ONE, Office of National Estimates (Central Intelligence Agency)
• OPCON, Operational Control (Department of Defense)
• OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• OPIC, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• Orcon, dissemination and extraction of information controlled by originator (dissemination control abbreviation)
• OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• OUSD, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
• P, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Department of State
• PACAF, Pacific Air Force (U.S.)
• PACOM, Pacific Command (U.S.)
• PARA, paragraph
• PDB, President’s Daily Brief (Central Intelligence Agency)
• PFIAB, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
• PGET, Provisional Government of East Timor
• PHIL, Philippines
• PL, Public Law
• PL–480, an assistance program that provides agricultural commodities to foreign countries on behalf of the U.S. public
• PM, Prime Minister; also Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs at the Department of State
• PNG, Papua New Guinea; Persona non grata
• POL, political
• POLAD, political adviser (usually Department of State representative assigned to a military commander)
• POW, Prisoner of War
• PRC, People’s Republic of China
• PRES, the President
• PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam
• PriMin, Prime Minister
• PT, Portuguese Timor
• QR, Quota Restriction
• QTE, quote
• RA, Regional Affairs (DOS/EA)
• RADM, Rear Admiral
• REFTEL, reference telegram
• REP, representative
• RES, resolution (United Nations)
• RET’D, returned (indicates when President Nixon finished reading a document)
• RG, record group (National Archives and Records Administration)
• RN, Richard Nixon
• RNC, Republican National Committee
• ROC, Republic of China (see also GRC)
• ROK, Republic of Korea (South Korea)
• ROKG, Republic of Korea Government
• RP, Republic of the Philippines
• RPT, repeat
• RTG, Royal Thai Government
• RVN, Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
• S, Office of the Secretary of State; also Secret
• S/P, Policy Planning Council, Department of State
• S/PC, Planning and Coordination Staff, Department of State
• S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
• SA, Studies and Analysis (Department of Defense)
• SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
• SC, Security Council (United Nations)
• SCA, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State
• SCC, United States—Japan Security Consultative Committee
• SCI, Bureau of International Scientific and Technological Affairs, Department of State; also sensitive compartmented information
• SCM, Security Consultative Meeting
• SDR, Special Drawing Rights (International Monetary Fund)
• SEA, Southeast Asia
• SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
• SECDEF, Secretary of Defense
• SECSTATE, Secretary of State
• SECTO, from the Secretary of State (used for telegrams from the Secretary or his party while he is on travel)
• SECY GEN, Secretary General (United Nations)
• SECY, Secretary of State
• SEPTEL, separate telegram
• SGU, Special Guerrilla Unit (manned by Thai “volunteers” in Laos and financed by the United States)
• SIG, Senior Interdepartmental Group (National Security Council)
• S–N, South-North (Korea)
• SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
• SOF(A), Status of Forces (Agreement)
• SPNFZ, South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone
• S/PRS, Office of Press Relations, Department of State
• SRG, Senior Review Group (National Security Council)
• SRV, Socialist Republic of Vietnam
• STADIS, Distribution within State Department Only
• STR, Special Trade Representative
• SVN, South Vietnam
• T, Office of the Under Secretary for Security Assistance, Department of State
• TOHAK, to Henry A. Kissinger
• TOSEC, to the Secretary of State (used for telegrams to the Secretary while he is on travel)
• TOSIT, to the White House Situation Room
• TS, Top Secret
• TTPI, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
• U, Office of the Under Secretary of State; also Unclassified
• UK, United Kingdom
• UN, United Nations
• UNC, United Nations Command (Korea)
• UNCTAD, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• UNCURK, United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea
• UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UNHCR, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• UNQTE, unquote
• UPI, United Press International
• U/DM, Under Secretaries Decision Memorandum
• U–S/M, Under Secretaries Memorandum
• USA, United States Army
• USAF, United States Air Force
• USC, Under Secretaries Committee
• USFY, United States fiscal year
• USG, United States Government
• USIA, United States Information Agency
• USIB, United States Intelligence Board
• USIS, United States Information Service
• USLO, United States Liaison Office (People’s Republic of China)
• USN, United States Navy
• USSAG, United States Support Activities Group (Thailand)
• USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
• VADM, Vice Admiral
• VN, Vietnam
• VOA, Voice of America
• VP, Vice President
• WESTPAC, Western Pacific
• WH, White House
• WNRC, Washington National Records Center
• WSAG, Washington Special Action Group
• Z, Zulu time (Greenwich Mean Time)