Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XI,
Part 1, Iran: Hostage Crisis, November 1979–September 1980
Abbreviations and Terms
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A-6, U.S.
long-range attack aircraft
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AA,anti-aircraft
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ACQ,
acquired
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ADA, Air
Defense Artillery
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AFB, Air
Force Base
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Amb,
Ambassador
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ARAMCO,
Arabian-American Oil Company
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AWB,
Australian Wheat Board
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AWACS,
Airborne Early Warning and Control
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B, Christian
Bourguet
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B-52, U.S.
bomber
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B&V,
Bourguet and Villalon
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BDG,
Bangladesh Government
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bpd, barrels
per day
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C, Jimmy
Carter; Confidential
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C-5, U.S.
military transport aircraft
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C-9, U.S.
aeromedical transport aircraft
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C-130,
Hercules, general purpose, four-engine fixed wing military transport
aircraft
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C-141,
Starlifter, fixed wing military transport aircraft
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C-5, Galaxy,
fixed wing military transport aircraft
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C&R,communications and records
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C3I, Communications, Command, Control,
and Intelligence
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CA, Bureau of
Consular Affairs, Department of State
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CENTO,
Central Treaty Organization
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Cherokee, telegraphic distribution channel for the
Eyes Only messages between the Secretary of State and an
Ambassador
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CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
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CINC,
Commander in Chief
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CINCPAC,
Commander in Chief, Pacific Command
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CJCS,
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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COG,
Continuity of Government
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COMSAT,
Communications Satellite Corporation
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CONUS,
Continental United States
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CPX, Command
Post Exercise
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CRICON,
Crisis Confrontation
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COMJTF,
Commander Joint Task Force:
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CT,
Counterterrorism
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CTJTF,
Counterterrorism Joint Task Force
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CVA, U.S.
Navy Attack Aircraft Carrier
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D, Office of
the Deputy Secretary of State
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DA, David
Aaron
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DAO, Defense
Attaché Office
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DCA, Defense
Cooperation Agreement
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DCI, Director
of Central Intelligence
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DCM, Deputy
Chief of Mission
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DDCI, Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence
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DDN, David D.
Newsom
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DDO, Deputy
Director for Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
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DDSO, Deputy
Director for Special Operations
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Delta, 1st
Special Forces Operational Detachment D, commanded by Colonel
Charlie Beckwith
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Desert
One, designated landing spot for Delta Team and
helicopters inside Iran, U.S. rescue mission
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Desert
Two,designated mountain hideout southeast of Tehran
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DIA,Defense
Intelligence Agency
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DJS,
Director, Joint Staff
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DOE,
Department of Energy
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DOI, date of
information
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DOUBLESTAR, an operational test and evaluation
activity for JTF procurement and training for a second rescue
operation
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DRE, Defense
Research and Engineering
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E-3, AWACS
aircraft
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Eagle
Claw, code name for the rescue operation,
operational phase
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EC, European
Community
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EC-9, nine
members of the European Community
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EDS,
Electronic Data Systems
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EUCOM,European Command
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Exdis,
Exclusive Distribution
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F-4, U.S. jet
interceptor and fighter-bomber
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F-5, U.S.
light fighter aircraft
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F-111, U.S.
supersonic tactical attack aircraft
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FBI, Federal
Bureau of Investigation
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FBIS,
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
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FCO, U.K.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Fedayeen
al-Khalq, secular Marxist group
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FI, Foreign
Intelligence
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FLAG, Family
Liaison Action Group
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FMS, Foreign
Military Sales
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FOI, Freedom
of Information
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FRG, Federal
Republic of Germany
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G (GH),
Ghotbzadeh
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G-3, rifle
produced in Iran under license from Heckler and Koch
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GA, General
Assembly
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GDP, Gross
Domestic Product
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GOI,
Government of Iran
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GOP,
Government of Pakistan; Government of Panama
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GS, Gary
Sick
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H, Bureau of
Congressional Relations, Department of State
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HB, Honey
Badger; Harold Brown
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helo(s),
helicopters
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HUMINT,
human intelligence
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ICA,
International Communication Agency
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ICJ,
International Court of Justice
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ICRC,
International Committee of the Red Cross
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IEA,
International Energy Agency
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IEEPA,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act
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INR, Bureau
of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
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INS,
Immigration and Naturalization Service
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INTELSAT, Global Fixed Satellites and
Telecommunications Services; International Telecommunications
Satellite Organization
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IO/UNP,
Office of UN Political Affairs, Bureau of International Organization
Affairs, Department of State
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IRG, Islamic
Revolutionary Guard
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IRP, Islamic
Republican Party
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IWG, Iran
Working Group, Department of State
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J-2, Joint
Staff Intelligence Division
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J-3, Joint
Staff Operations Division
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J-3/DDSO,
Joint Staff Operations Division/Deputy Director for Special
Operations
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J-5,Joint
Staff Plans Directorate
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J, JC, Jimmy
Carter
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JCS, Joint
Chiefs of Staff
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JTD, Joint
Task Delta
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JTF, Joint
Task Force
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JW, Jasper
Welch
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KC-135,
U.S. aerial refueling aircraft
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Komiteh,
self-appointed revolutionary committees that sprang up spontaneously
in most neighborhoods of Tehran
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L, Office of
the Legal Adviser, Department of State
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LDC, less
developed country
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LOH, Light
Observation Helicopter
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LPH,
Amphibious Assault Ship (helicopter); Landing
Platform/Helicopter
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MAAG,
Military Assistance Advisory Group
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Majles
(Majlis),Iranian Parliament
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MB, Marshall
Brement
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Mbd, Million
barrels per day
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MC-130,
Combat Talon, U.S. four-engine fixed-wing special operations
military aircraft
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MD, Military
District
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MEDEVAC,
medical evacuation
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MFA, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
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Mujahidin, Islamic guerrilla fighters; person who
wages jihad
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Mujahiddin
al-Khalq, People’s Mujahiddin of Iran, Islamic
Marxist anti-Shah group founded in 1960s
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NCA, National
Command Authority
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NE, Near
East
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NEA, Bureau
of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
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NEA/IRN,
Office of Iranian Affairs (Iran Desk), Bureau of Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs, Department of State
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NEA/IWG,
Iran Working Group, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Department of State
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NESA, Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
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NFAC,
National Foreign Assessment Center, Central Intelligence
Agency
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NIOC,
National Iranian Oil Company
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NM, nautical
miles
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Noforn,
Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals
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NSA, National
Security Agency
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NSC, National
Security Council
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OECD,
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
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OER, Office
of Economic Research, Central Intelligence Agency
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OJCS, Office
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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OPEC,
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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Oplan,
operation plan
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OPSDEPS,
Service Operations Deputies
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OPSEC,
Operational Security
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OSD, Office
of the Secretary of Defense
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Otter, U.S.
low-level research airplane
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P, Office of
the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; President
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PACOM, U.S.
Pacific Command
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Pasdaran, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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PD,
Presidential Directive
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PDB,
President’s Daily Brief
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PFLP,
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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PLO,
Palestine Liberation Organization
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PN, Panama,
Panamanian
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PNG, persona
non grata
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PRC, Policy
Review Committee
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PRM,Presidential Review Memorandum
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RDF, Rapid
Deployment Force
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RDJTF,
Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force
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REDCOM,
U.S. Readiness Command
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RG, Record
Group
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RH-53, U.S.
Navy (Marine Corps) Sea Stallion Helicopter
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Rice
Bowl, code name of the rescue operation in its
planning stages
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RSO, Regional
Security Office(r)
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S, Office of
the Secretary of State; Secret
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SALT,
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
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SAMA, Saudi
Arabian Monetary Agency
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SAR, search
and rescue
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SASC, Senate
Armed Services Committee
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SATCOM,
Satellite Communications
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SAVAK,
Farsi language acronym for Iranian National Security and Information
Organization (Sazman-i Ittili’at va Amniyat-i
Kishvar)
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SAVAMA,
Farsi language acronym for Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and
National Security (Sazman-E Ettela’at Va Amniat-E
Melli-E Iran); replaced SAVAK
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SCC, Special
Coordinating Committee
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SDR, Special
Drawing Rights, International Monetary Fund
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SEAL,
Sea/Air/Land Force, U.S. Navy
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SecGen,
Secretary General
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Secto,
series indicator for telegrams sent from the Secretary of
State
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SFRC, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
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SOD, J-3
Special Operations Division, Joint Staff
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SOG, Special
Operations Group (Central Intelligence Agency)
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SNOWBIRD, Department of Defense planning for a
second rescue operation
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S/P, Policy
Planning Staff, Department of State
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SR-71,
Blackbird, U.S. reconnaissance aircraft
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S/S, Executive
Secretariat, Department of State
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Stadis,
State Department distribution only
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SY, Office of
Security, Bureau of Administration, Department of State
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SYG,
Secretary General
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T,
Tabatabai
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Tabas,
Iranian name for Desert One
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TACAIR,
tactical air
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TASS,
official Soviet news agency
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TS, Top
Secret
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Tudeh,
Iranian Peoples (Communist) Party
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Twin
Otter, codename for reconnaissance flights into Iran
to locate what would become Desert One
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U-2, U.S.
high-altitude reconnaissance airplane
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UAE, United
Arab Emirates
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UN, United
Nations
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UNGA, United
Nations General Assembly
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UNSC, United
Nations Security Council
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UNSYG,
United Nations Secretary General
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USG, United
States Government
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USNATO,
United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
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USSR, Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics
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USUN, United
States Mission to the United Nations
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V, Hector
Villalon
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V&B,
Villalon and Bourguet
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VHF, Very
High Frequency
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VOA, Voice of
America
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VP, Vice
President
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Z, Zulu time,
Greenwich Mean Time
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ZB, Zbigniew
Brzezinski