Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume
XII, Afghanistan
Abbreviations and Terms
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- AAA,
anti-aircraft artillery
- ACDA, Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency
- ACQ,
acquired
- AD, Anatoliy
F. Dobrynin
- A/DCM,
Acting Deputy Chief of Mission
- Af,
Afghan
- AINTELG,
Air Intelligence Group
- ALF, Afghan
Liberation Front
- Amb,
Ambassador
- Amcit,
American citizen
- ANLF, Afghan
National Liberation Front
- ANZUS,
Australia, New Zealand, United States
- A/O, Office of
the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Operations
- AP,
anti-personnel
- APC, armored
personnel carrier
- ASAP, as
soon as possible
- ASD/ISA,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs
- ASEAN,
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- ASW,
anti-submarine warfare
- AT,
anti-tank
- AWACS,
Airborne Warning and Control System
-
- BMD,
ballistic missile defense
- BVB,
Brzezinski-Vance-Brown
-
- C,
Confidential; Carter
- CA, covert
action
- CAT, Civil
Aviation Talks (U.S.-Soviet)
- CCD,
Conference of the Committee on Disarmament
- CDE,
Conference on Disarmament in Europe
- CEMA,
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
- CENTO,
Central Treaty Organization
- Cherokee, telegraphic distribution channel for eyes
only messages between the Secretary of State and an
Ambassador
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CIA/DDO,
Deputy Director for Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
- CINCEUR,
Commander in Chief, European Command
- CINCPAC,
Commander in Chief, Pacific Command
- CJCS, Chief
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- CNO, Chief of
Naval Operations
- COCOM,
Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
- COMNAVINTCOM, Commander, Naval Intelligence
Command
- ConGen,
Consul General; Consulate General
- COS, Chief of
Staff; Chief of Station
- CPSU,
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- CSCE,
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- CTB,
Comprehensive Test Ban
- CV, Cyrus
Vance
- CW, chemical
weapons
-
- D, Office of
the Deputy Secretary of State
- DA, David
Aaron
- DAS, Deputy
Assistant Secretary
- DATT,
Defense Attaché
- DCI, Director
of Central Intelligence
- DCM, Deputy
Chief of Mission
- DDCI, Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence
- DDO, Deputy
Director for Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
- DDPMA,
Deputy Director, Politico-Military Affairs (Joint Staff)
- Depsec,
Deputy Secretary
- Dept,
Department
- DI,
Directorate of Intelligence
- DIA, Defense
Intelligence Agency
- Dissem,
dissemination
- DOD,
Department of Defense
- DOI, date of
information
- DRA,
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
-
- EA, East
Asia
- EC, European
Community
- EE, Eastern
Europe
- EM, Edmund
Muskie
- EmbOff,
Embassy officer
- ER, Office of
Economic Research, Central Intelligence Agency
- ESF, Economic
Support Fund
- EST, Eastern
Standard Time
- EUR, Bureau
of European Affairs, Department of State
- EUR/RPM,
Office of NATO and Atlantic Political-Military Affairs, Bureau of
European Affairs, Department of State
- EUR/SOV,
Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs,
Department of State
- Exdis,
Exclusive Distribution
-
- FBIS,
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
- FGI, foreign
government information
- FMS, Foreign
Military Sales
- FonSec,
Foreign Secretary
- FRG, Federal
Republic of Germany
- FSN, Foreign
Service National
- FY, Fiscal
Year
- FYI, for your
information
-
- GDR, German
Democratic Republic
- GOA,
Government of Afghanistan
- GOP,
Government of Pakistan
- Govt,
Government
-
- H and I,
harassment and interdiction
- HI,
Hezbe-i-Islami Afghanistan
-
- IALA,
Islamic Alliance for the Liberation of Afghanistan
- ICA,
International Communication Agency
- ICBM,
intercontinental ballistic missile
- ICRC,
International Committee of the Red Cross
- IFI,
international financial institution
- IIM,
Interagency Intelligence Memorandum
- IMET,
International Military Education and Training
- INI, Islamic
nationalist insurgents
- INR, Bureau
of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/DDC,
Office of the Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/EEA,
Office of East European Assistance within the Office of Research and
Analysis for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/PMT,
Office of Research and Analysis for Politico-Military Research,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/RNA,
Office of Research and Analysis for the Near East and South Asia,
Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/RNA/SOA, Office of Research and Analysis for
Near East and South Asia, South Asia Division, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/RSE,
Office of Research and Analysis for the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of
State
- IO, Bureau of
International Organization Affairs, Department of State
- IO/UNP,
Office of United Nations Political Affairs, Bureau of International
Organization Affairs, Department of State
- ISA, Office
of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs
- ISID,
Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (Pakistan)
- IWG,
Interagency Working Group
-
- J–5, Plans
Directorate (Joint Staff)
- J, Jimmy
Carter
- JCS, Joint
Chiefs of Staff
-
- KGB,
Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or
Soviet Committee for State Security
- km,
kilometer
-
- L/PM,
Assistant Legal Adviser for Politico-Military Affairs, Department of
State
- LAW, light
anti-tank weapon
- LDC, less
developed country
- LOC, line of
communication
- LOU, Limited
Official Use
- LRTNF,
long-range theater nuclear forces
- LTDP,
Long-Term Defense Plan (NATO)
-
- MAP, Military
Assistance Program
- MBFR, Mutual
and Balanced Force Reductions
- MDS, Marshall
D. Shulman
- MEA, Ministry
of External Affairs
- Memcon,
memorandum of conversation
- MFA, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
- MFN, most
favored nation
- mm,
millimeter
- MR, motorized
regiment
-
- NAC, North
Atlantic Council
- NAM,
Non-Aligned Movement
- NATO, North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NEA, Bureau
of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- NEA/PAB,
Office of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh Affairs, Bureau of
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- NESA, Office
of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis, Central Intelligence
Agency
- NFAC,
National Foreign Assessment Center
- NFI, national
foreign intelligence
- NFIRA,
National Front for the Islamic Revolution of Afghanistan
- Niact,
Night Action
- NIC, National
Intelligence Council
- NID, National
Intelligence Daily
- NIO, National
Intelligence Officer
- NLF, National
Liberation Front (Vietnam)
- NMRC,
National Military Revolutionary Council (Afghanistan)
- Nocontract, not releasable to contractors
- Nodis, no
distribution
- Noforn, no
foreign distribution
- Notal, not
received by all addressees
- NRC, Nuclear
Regulatory Commission
- NSA, National
Security Agency
- NSC, National
Security Council
- NWFP,
Northwest Frontier Province
-
- OECD,
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- OMB, Office
of Management and Budget
- OPA, Office
of Political Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency
- Ops,
Operations
- OPEC,
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- Orcon,
originator controlled
-
- PAB, Office
of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh Affairs, Bureau of Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- Pak,
Pakistan; Pakistani
- PD,
Presidential Directive; Presidential Determination
- PDB,
President’s Daily Brief
- PDPA,
People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan
- PDRY,
People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen
- Perm Rep,
Permanent Representative
- P.L., Public
Law
- PM, Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
- POL,
political
- POL/ECON,
Political/Economic Sections of the Embassy
- POLAD,
Political Advisor
- PPP, Pakistan
Peoples Party
- PRC, People’s
Republic of China; Policy Review Committee
- PRM,
Presidential Review Memorandum
- PTT, postal,
telegraph, and telephone
-
- RA, Radio
Afghanistan
- RDF, Rapid
Deployment Force
- Ref,
reference
- refair,
reference airgram
- reftel,
reference telegram
- RG, Record
Group
- RMO, Regional
Medical Officer
- Roger
Channel, channel for communications between the
Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) and the
Chief of Mission
- rpt,
repeat
- RSO, Regional
Security Officer
- RV, re-entry
vehicle
-
- S, Secret;
Office of the Secretary of State
- SA–7,
man-portable, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missile
- SACEUR,
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
- SAG, Saudi
Arabian Government
- SALT,
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
- SecDef,
Secretary of Defense
- Secto,
series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State while
traveling
- SC, Security
Council (United Nations)
- SCC, Special
Coordination Committee
- Septel,
separate telegram
- SFRC, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
- SHAPE,
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe
- SIGINT,
signals intelligence
- sitrep,
situation report
- S/MS, Office
of Marshall Shulman, Special Adviser to the Secretary of
State
- S/P, Policy
Planning Staff, Department of State
- SNIE,
Special National Intelligence Estimate
- Specat,
special category message
- S/S, Executive
Secretariat, Department of State
- SSCI, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence
- S/S–I,
Information Management Section, Executive Secretariat, Department of
State
- S/S–O,
Operations Center, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
- S/S–S,
Secretariat Staff, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
- Stadis,
(Department of) State Distribution
- SU, Soviet
Union
- Subj,
Subject
- SY, Scotland
Yard
- SYG,
Secretary-General
-
- tacair,
tactical aircraft
- TASS,
official Soviet news agency
- TDY,
temporary duty
- TNF, theater
nuclear forces
- Tosec,
series indicator for telegram to the Secretary of State while
traveling
- TS, Top
Secret
- TT, Thomas
Thornton
- Tudeh,
Iranian Communist Party
-
- U,
Unclassified
- U.S., United
States
- UIA, United
Islamic Alliance
- UILFA,
United Islamic Liberation Front of Afghanistan
- UK, United
Kingdom
- UN, United
Nations
- UNDP, United
Nations Development Program
- UNGA, United
Nations General Assembly
- UNHCR,
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- UNSC, United
Nations Security Council
- USAF, United
States Air Force
- USAID,
United States Agency for International Development
- USC, United
States Code
- USDA, United
States Department of Agriculture
- USDEL,
United States Delegation
- USG, United
States Government
- USIA, United
States Information Agency
- USICA,
United States International Communication Agency
- USLO, United
States Liaison Office
- 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
- VP, Vice
President
-
-
-
- Z, Zulu time
(Greenwich Mean Time)
- ZB, Zbigniew
Brzezinski