Office of the Historian

Abbreviations

  • ADM, Admiral
  • AFB, Air Force Base
  • AGI, Intelligence Collection vessel (USSR)
  • ASD, Assistant Secretary of Defense
  • BGEN, Brigadier General
  • BIB, Board for International Broadcasting
  • C, Confidential; Office of the Counselor, Department of State
  • CAPT, Captain
  • CBM, Confidence Building Measure
  • CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation
  • CEMA, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (also COMCON, COMECON)
  • CI, Current Intelligence
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CIEP, Council on International Economic Policy
  • CIEPSM, Council on International Economic Policy Security Memorandum
  • CINCENT, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Central Europe
  • CINCEUR, Commander in Chief, Europe
  • CINCUSAFE, Commander in Chief, U.S. Air Forces, Europe
  • CINCUSAREUR, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Europe
  • COCOM, Coordinating Committee on Export Controls
  • COMECON, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (also COMCON, CEMA)
  • COMINT, Communications Intelligence
  • CSAF, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force
  • CSCE, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
  • DA, Department of the Army
  • DATT, Defense Attaché
  • DC, District of Columbia
  • DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
  • DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • DOD/CA, Department of Defense/Cost Analysis
  • DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam
  • EC, European Community
  • EE, Eastern Europe
  • EO, Executive Order
  • EPA, Environmental Protection Agency
  • EPB, Economic Policy Board
  • EPBSM, Economic Policy Board Study Memorandum
  • ESC, European Security Conference
  • EUCOM, United States European Command
  • EUR, Bureau of European Affairs
  • EXIM, Export-Import Bank
  • FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • FMS, Foreign Military Sales
  • FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
  • FSO, Foreign Service Officer
  • FSFA, Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs (Yugoslavia)
  • GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • GDR, German Democratic Republic
  • GNP, Gross National Product
  • GOR, Government of Romania
  • GOY, Government of Yugoslavia
  • IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
  • ICC, See ICCS
  • ICCS, International Commission of Control and Supervision in Vietnam
  • IMF, International Monetary Fund
  • ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JEC, Joint Economic Commission
  • JNA, Jugoslovenska narodna armija (Yugoslav People’s Army)
  • L, Legal Affairs, DOS
  • LC, League of Communists (Yugoslavia)
  • LCY, League of Communists of Yugoslavia
  • LDC, Less Developed Countries
  • L/PM, Legal Affairs DOS
  • LTC, Lieutenant Colonel
  • MBFR, Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
  • MFN, Most Favored Nation
  • MLM, Military Liaison Mission
  • MOD, Minister of Defense
  • MSA, Most Seriously Affected (Country)
  • NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NCST, Romanian National Council for Science and Technology
  • NDP, National Disclosure Policy
  • NDPC, National Military Information Disclosure Policy Committee
  • NFIB, National Foreign Intelligence Board
  • NPG, Nuclear Planning Group, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NSA, National Security Agency
  • NSC, National Security Council
  • NSDM, National Security Decision Memorandum
  • NSSM, National Security Study Memorandum
  • OASD, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
  • OASD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • OPIC, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
  • OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • PCI, Partito Comunista Italiano (Italian Communist Party)
  • PDR, Processing Data Rate
  • PL, Public Law
  • PLO, Palestinian Liberation Organization
  • PM, Political-Military Affairs
  • POLAD, Political Advisor
  • PRG, Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam
  • PRGSVN, see PRG
  • PZPR, Polska Zjednoczona Partia Robotnicza (United Polish Worker’s Party)
  • QA, Quadripartite Agreement
  • RCP, Romanian Communist Party
  • RFE, Radio Free Europe
  • RL, Radio Liberty
  • S, Secret; Secretary
  • SDR, Special Drawing Rights
  • SECDEF, Secretary of Defense
  • SED, Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschland (GDR)
  • SFRY, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
  • SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
  • SIGINT, Signals Intelligence
  • SOFO, Special Operations Field Office (U.S. Army, West Berlin)
  • SPD, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland (BRD, DDR)
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • SSBN, Subsurface Ship Ballistic Nuclear
  • SSN, Ship Submersible Nuclear (Attack Submarine)
  • TOW, Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (missile)
  • UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
  • UNSC, United Nations Security Council
  • US, United States
  • USA, United States Army; United States of America
  • USAEUR, United States Army Europe
  • USCOB, United States Commander, Berlin
  • USELMLO, United States Element, LIVE OAK
  • USG, United States Government
  • USIA, United States Information Agency
  • USIS, United States Information Service
  • USMLM, United States Military Liaison Mission
  • USN, United States Navy
  • USNATO, Series indicator for telegrams from the Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to the Department of State
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • USUN, United States Delegation to the United Nations
  • VADM, Vice Admiral
  • VIP, Very Important Person
  • VOA, Voice of America
  • WH, White House
  • WHCA, White House Communications Agency
  • WHO, World Health Organization
  • ZSL, Zjednoczone Stronnictwo Ludowe (United People’s Party, Poland)
  • Z, Greenwich Mean Time