Abbreviations and Terms
- ABM, anti-ballistic missile
- ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
- ALCM, air-launched cruise missile
- ASAP, as soon as possible
- ASAT, anti-satellite
- ASBM, air-to-surface ballistic missile
- ASEAN, Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- ASW, anti-submarine warfare
- AWAC, Airborne Warning and Control
- BMD, Ballistic Missile Defense
- BW, biological weapon
- C, Office of the Counselor of the Department of State
- CA, covert action
- CAB, Civil Aviation Board
- CBI, Caribbean Basin Initiative
- CBM, Confidence-Building Measures
- CC, Central Committee
- CD, Conference on Disarmament
- CDE, Conference on Disarmament in Europe
- CEMA, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
- CI, Counterintelligence
- CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
- CINCSAC, Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command
- CJCS, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- CM, cruise missile
- CODEL, Congressional Delegation
- COM, Chief of Mission
- CP, Communist Party
- CPPG, Crisis Pre-Planning Group
- CPSU, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- CSCE, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
- CTB, Comprehensive Test Ban
- CW, chemical weapon
- D, Office of the Deputy Secretary of State; Democrat
- DAO, Defense Attaché Office
- DATT, Defense Attaché
- DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
- DDI, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
- DDO, Deputy Director for Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
- DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
- DIRNSA, Director of the National Security Agency
- DOD, Department of Defense
- DST, Defense and Space Talks
- EC, European Community
- EconOff, Economics Officer
- EE, Eastern Europe
- EEC, European Economic Community
- EmbOff, Embassy Officer
- EOB, Executive Office Building (houses the Vice President’s Office)
- ERW, enhanced radiation weapon
- EST, Eastern Standard Time
- EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State; after September 15, 1983, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs
- EUR/SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State
- Exdis, Exclusive Distribution
- FAA, Federal Aviation Administration
- FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
- FBS, forward-based systems
- FCO, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (United Kingdom)
- FM, Foreign Minister
- ForMin, Foreign Ministry; Foreign Minister
- FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
- G–7, Group of 7, Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States
- GDR, German Democratic Republic
- GLCM, ground-launched cruise missile
- GOJ, Government of Japan
- GPS, George P. Shultz
- GRU, Soviet military intelligence agency
- HA, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Department of State
- HPSCI, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
- HUMINT, human intelligence
- I&W, Indications and Warning
- IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
- ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization
- ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile
- IG, Interagency Group
- IMEMO, Institute of World Economy and International Relations
- IMF, International Monetary Fund
- INF, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
- INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- IOC, International Olympic Committee
- JCC, Joint Commercial Commission
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- JMC, Joint Military Commission
- KAL, Korean Airlines
- KGB, Committee for State Security in the Soviet Union
- L, Office of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State
- LANDSAT, Land-Use Satellite
- Limdis, Limited Distribution
- LRINF, Long-Range Intermediate Nuclear Forces
- LTA, Long-Term Agreement on grain
- MAD, mutual assured destruction
- MBFR, Mutual Balanced Force Reductions
- memcon, memorandum of conversation
- MFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- MFN, most favored nation
- MIRV, multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle
- MOU, Memorandum of Understanding
- MX or M–X, missile experimental (intercontinental ballistic missile)
- NAC, North Atlantic Council
- NAM, Non-Aligned Movement
- NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Niact, Night Action
- NID, National Intelligence Daily
- Nocontract, Not Releasable to Contractors
- Nodis, No Distribution
- Noforn, No Foreign Dissemination
- NORAD, North American Aerospace Defense Command
- NPT, Non-Proliferation Treaty
- NSA, National Security Agency
- NSPG, National Security Planning Group
- NSC, National Security Council
- NSDD, National Security Decision Directive
- NSSD, National Security Study Directive
- NST, Nuclear and Space Talks
- NTM, National Technical Means
- NUF, non-use of force
- OAS, Organization of American States
- OBE, overtaken by events
- OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Orcon, Originator Controlled
- OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
- OVP, Office of the Vice President
- P, Office of the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
- P–II, Pershing II missile
- PDB, President’s Daily Brief
- PFIAB, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
- PM, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
- PNE or PNET, Treaty on Peaceful Nuclear Explosions
- POLAD, Political Adviser
- PolCouns, Political Counselor
- Poloff, Political Officer
- PRC, Policy Review Committee
- PROFs notes, internal White House and NSC electronic messages
- R, Republican
- R&D, research and development
- reftel, Reference Telegram
- RFE, Radio Free Europe
- RL, Radio Liberty
- RR, Ronald Reagan
- RW, radiological weapons
- S, Office of the Secretary of State
- S/P, Policy Planning Council, Department of State
- S/S, 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
- S&T, Science and Technology
- SACG, Senior Arms Control Group
- SACPG, Senior Arms Control Policy Group
- SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
- SCC, Special Coordinating Committee; Standing Consultative Commission
- SCG, Special Consultative Group (NATO)
- SDI, Strategic Defense Initiative
- Secto, series indicator for telegrams sent from the Secretary of State while away from Washington
- septel, separate telegram
- SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe
- SIG, Senior Interagency Group
- SIG/I, Senior Interagency Group on Intelligence
- SIG-IEP, Senior Interagency Group-International Economic Policy
- SLCM, surface-launched cruise missile; submarine-launched cruise missile; sea-launched cruise missile
- SNDV, strategic nuclear delivery vehicle
- SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
- Specat, Special Category
- SRINF, Short-Range Intermediate Nuclear Forces
- START, Strategic Arms Reduction Talks; Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
- TASS, official Soviet news agency
- TNF, Theater Nuclear Forces
- Tosec, series indicator for telegrams sent to the Secretary of State while away from Washington
- TTBT, Threshold Test Ban Treaty
- UK, United Kingdom
- UN, United Nations
- UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
- US, United States
- USA, United States of America; United States Army
- USAF, United States Air Force
- USAFSB, United States Army Field Station Berlin
- USCINCEUR, United States Commander in Chief, European Command
- USDel, United States Delegation
- USDOC, Department of Commerce
- USG, United States Government
- USIA, United States Information Agency
- USN, United States Navy
- USNMR SHAPE, United States National Military Representative, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe
- USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- USTR, United States Trade Representative
- VOA, Voice of America
- VP, Vice President
- WH, White House
- WHSR, White House Situation Room
- WP, Warsaw Pact
- Z, Zulu Time Zone (Greenwich Mean Time)