Office of the Historian

Abbreviations and Terms

    • A/S, Assistant Secretary
    • ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
    • AD, Acción Democrática (Democratic Action Party), Venezuela
    • AID, Agency for International Development
    • APRA, Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance), Peruvian political party
    • ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
    • ARA/AND, Andean Affairs Office, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
    • ARA/ECP, Office of Regional Economic Policy, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
    • ARA/PPC, Office of Policy Planning Coordination, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
    • ARA/SC, Office of Southern Cone Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
    • AVC, ¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo! (Eloy Alfaro Popular Armed Forces), Ecuador
    • BIT, Bilateral Investment Treaty
    • BPD, barrels per day
    • CAP, Carlos Andrés Pérez
    • CAR, Office of Caribbean Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
    • CBI, Caribbean Basin Initiative
    • CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation
    • CINCLANT, Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command
    • CIVS, International Commission for Verification and Follow-Up (Central America)
    • COM, Chief of Mission
    • COPEI, Comité de Organización Política Electoral Independiente (Committee of Independent Electoral Political Organization), Venezuelan political party
    • Contadora Group, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela
    • DAS, Deputy Assistant Secretary
    • DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
    • DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration
    • EB, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
    • EB/IFD/OMA, Office of Monetary Affairs, International Finance and Development, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
    • EC, European Community
    • EEP, Export Enhancement Program
    • ESF, Economic Support Fund
    • Exdis, exclusive distribution
    • EXIM / Eximbank, Export-Import Bank of the United States
    • FDR, Frente Democrático Revolucionario (Revolutionary Democratic Front), El Salvador
    • FMS, Foreign Military Sales
    • FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
    • FY, fiscal year
    • GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
    • GDP, Gross Domestic Product
    • GOE, Government of Ecuador
    • GOH, Government of Haiti
    • GOJ, Government of Japan
    • GON, Government of Nicaragua
    • GOP, Government of Paraguay; Government of Peru
    • GOES, Government of El Salvador
    • GOU, Government of Uruguay
    • GOV, Government of Venezuela
    • GRN, Revolutionary Government of Nicaragua
    • HA, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Department of State
    • HA/HR, Office of Human Rights, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Department of State
    • IBRD, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
    • IDB, Inter-American Development Bank
    • ICERC, Inter-Agency Country Exposure Review Committee
    • ID, Izquierda Democrática (Democratic Left), Ecuador
    • IFI, International Financial Institution
    • IG, Interagency Group
    • IMF, International Monetary Fund
    • IMET, International Military Education and Training
    • INM/P, Office of Program Management, Bureau of International Narcotics Matters, Department of State
    • 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
    • JOOGG, Junta de Oficiales Generales (General Officers’ Council), Uruguay
    • Limdis, limited distribution
    • LOS, Law of the Sea
    • M-19, Movimiento 19 de Abril (April 19th Movement), Colombian leftist guerrilla group
    • MAP, Military Assistance Program
    • MDB, Multilateral Development Bank
    • MFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    • MFO, Multinational Force and Observers/Multilateral Force Observers (Sinai)
    • NAM, Non-Aligned Movement
    • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    • NIO, National Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency
    • Nodis, no distribution
    • Noforn, no foreign dissemination
    • NSC, National Security Council
    • NSDD, National Security Decision Directive
    • OAS, Organization of American States
    • OASGA, Organization of American States General Assembly
    • OAU, Organization of African Unity
    • OFDA, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, Agency for International Development
    • OMB, Office of Management and Budget
    • OPEC, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
    • P, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
    • PD, Presidential Directive
    • PL-480, Public Law 480 (Food for Peace)
    • RPT, repeat
    • S, Office of the Secretary of State
    • S/P, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
    • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
    • S/S-I, Information Management Section, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
    • S/S-O, Operations Center, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
    • SI, Socialist International
    • SPR, Strategic Petroleum Reserve
    • Stadis, State Department distribution only
    • STR, Office of the Special Trade Representative
    • SWAPO, South West Africa People’s Organization
    • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
    • UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    • UNITAS, annual U.S.-South American naval exercise
    • UNSYG, United Nations Secretary-General
    • USAID, United States Agency for International Development
    • USCINCSO, Commander in Chief, United States Southern Command
    • USG, United States Government
    • USSOUTHCOM, United States Southern Command
    • USUN, United States Mission to the United Nations
    • USTR, United States Trade Representative
    • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    • VAF, Venezuelan Air Force