Abbreviations and Terms

• • ACSI, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence
  • AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • AF/E, Office of Eastern and Southern African Affairs, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • AID, Agency for International Development
  • AID–HEW, Agency for International Development, Health Extension Workers
  • APC, Armored Personnel Carrier
  • ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
  • ASAP, as soon as possible
  • ASW, anti-submarine warfare
• • C, confidential
  • CA, covert action
  • CD, Charles Duncan
  • CE, Corps of Engineers
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
  • CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific Command
  • COM, Chief of Mission
  • COMIDEASTFOR, Commander, Middle East Forces
  • CTB, Comprehensive Test Ban
  • CV, Cyrus Vance
• • D, Office of the Deputy Secretary of State
  • DA, David Aaron
  • DAO, Defense Attaché Office
  • DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
  • DD, U.S. Navy destroyer
  • DDG, U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer
  • D/HA, Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Office of the Deputy Secretary of State
  • DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
  • dip, diplomatic
  • DirGen, Director General
  • DJ, David Jones
  • DN, David Newsom
  • DNI, Director of Naval Intelligence
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • DOD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • DOI, date of information
  • DOJ, Department of Justice
  • DOS, Department of State
• • EA, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State
  • EDT, Eastern Daylight Time
  • EDU, Ethiopian Democratic Union
  • ELF, Eritrean Liberation Front
  • EPLF, Eritrean People’s Liberation Front
  • EPMG, Ethiopian Provisional Military Government
  • EPRP, Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party
  • EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• • FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
  • FF, U.S. Navy fast frigate
  • FMS, Foreign Military Sales
  • FonMin, Foreign Minister
  • FY, fiscal year
• • GB, George Brown
  • GDR, German Democratic Republic
  • GMT, Greenwich Mean Time
  • GROG, Government of the Region of the Ogaden
  • GSDR, Government of the Somali Democratic Republic
• • H, Bureau of Congressional Relations, Department of State
  • HB, Harold Brown
  • HIRC, House International Relations Committee
• • IG, Inspector General
  • IIM, Interagency Intelligence Memorandum
  • ILO, International Labour Organization
  • IMET, International Military Education and Training
  • IMF, International Monetary Fund
  • INR, 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
• • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JW, John Wickham
• • MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
  • MAC, Military Airlift Command
  • MAP, Military Assistance Program
  • MBFR, Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
  • McG, David McGiffert
  • MilAtt, Military Attaché
  • MOFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• • NAM, Non-Aligned Movement
  • NAMRU, Navy Medical Research Unit
  • NAVCOMMU, Naval Communication Unit
  • NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • NIO, National Intelligence Officer
  • NSA, National Security Agency
  • NSC, National Security Council
• • OAU, Organization of African Unity
  • OMB, Office of Management and Budget
  • OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
• • P, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • PDB, President’s Daily Brief
  • PDRY, People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen)
  • PL–480, Public Law 480, also known as Food for Peace
  • PM, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
  • PMAC, Provisional Military Administrative Council (also known as the Derg or Dirg)
  • PMGE, see EPMG
  • PNG, persona non grata
  • POL, petroleum, oil, lubricants
  • POMOA, Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs
  • PRC, People’s Republic of China; Policy Review CommitteePRM, Presidential Review Memorandum
• • S, Office of the Secretary of State; secret
  • SALF, Somali Abo Liberation Front
  • SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • SAM, surface-to-air missile
  • SAWG, Special Activities Working Group
  • SCC, Special Coordination Committee
  • Secto, series indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State
  • SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • SIGINT, signals intelligence
  • S/P, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • S/S-O, Operations Center, Department of State
  • ST, Stansfield Turner
• • TFAI, French Territory of the Afars and Issas (Territoire Français des Afars et des Issas), present day Djibouti
  • TPLF, Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (Ethiopian political party
• • U, unclassified
  • UK, United Kingdom
  • UNECA, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
  • UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • UNITA, União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola)
  • UNSC, United Nations Security Council
  • USCINCEUR, United States Commander in Chief, Europe
  • USG, United States Government
  • USIA, United States Information Agency
  • USINT, United States Interests Section
  • USIS, United States Information Service
  • USNATO, United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• • VP, Vice President
• • WH, William Harrop
  • WSLF, Western Somali Liberation Front
• • Z, zulu time
  • ZAPU, Zimbabwe African People’s Union
  • ZB, Zbigniew Brzezinski