DTG, date-time group (date and exact
time on telegrams)
ELINT, electronic
intelligence
Embtel, Embassy telegram
EMC, electronic countermeasures
EUR, Bureau of European Affairs,
Department of State
EUR/BNA, Office of British
Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs,
Department of State
ExCom, Executive Committee
Eyes Only, document to be read
only by individuals with a need-to-know
FBI, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information
Service
FMF, Fleet Marine Force
fol, following
FRC, Federal Records Center
FROGS, free over ground tactical
rockets (Soviet luna rockets)
FYI, for your information
GNP, gross national product
GOC, Good Offices Committee
GOT, Government of Turkey
GSA, General Services
Administration
GTI, Office of Greek, Turkish, and
Iranian Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
HEW, Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare
HMG, Her Majesty's Government
ICBM, intercontinental ballistic
missile
ICRC, International Committee of the
Red Cross
ILA, International Longshoreman's
Association
IL-28, Soviet jet light bomber
IO, Bureau of International
Organization Affairs, Department of State
IRBM, intermediate-range ballistic
missile
Ironbark, special information
handling channel for intelligence generated by Colonel Oleg Penkovsky
ISA, Office of International Security
Affairs, Department of Defense
JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
JCSM, Joint Chiefs of Staff
memorandum
JURE, Revolutionary Junta
KOMAR, Soviet missile carrying PT
boats
KW, kilowatt
LAAM, light antiaircraft
missile
LICROSS, League of International
Red Cross Societies
LS, Division of Language Services,
Department of State
LST, landing ship, tank
MC, memorandum of conversation
MEB, Marine Expeditionary
Brigade
MFA, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
MIG, Soviet-made fighter
aircraft
MLF, multilateral force
MRBN, medium-range ballistic
missile
MSTS, Military Sea Transport
Service
mtg, meeting
NAC, North Atlantic Council
NATO, North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs, Department of State
niact, night action, telegram
indicator requiring immediate action
NIE, National Intelligence
Estimate
NORAD, North American Air Defense
Command
NPIC, National Photographic
Interpretation Center
NRO, National Reconnaissance
Office
NSAM, National Security Action
Memorandum
NSC, National Security Council
NY, New York
NYFRC, New York Federal Records
Center
OAS, Organization of American
States
OASD, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense
OCI, Office of Current Intelligence,
Central Intelligence Agency
OD, operating directive
OECD, Organization of Economic
Cooperation and Development
OEP, Office of Emergency
Planning
ONE/OCI, Office of National
Estimates/Office of Current Intelligence
OP, Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations; operations plan
OPLAN, operations plan
OSD, Office of the Secretary of
Defense
PAA, Pan American Airways
PM, Prime Minister
POL, petroleum, oil, and
lubricants
Polto, series indicator for
telegrams from the U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations to the Department of
State
re, regarding
reps, representatives
res, resolution
RLG, Royal Lao Government
RPM, Office of Atlantic Political and
Military Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
SA, Sterling Area
SA-2, Soviet suface to air missile
(SAM)
SAC, Strategic Air Command
SACEUR, Supreme Allied Commander,
Europe
SAM, surface-to-air missile
SAR, search and rescue
SC, Security Council of the United
Nations
SCCS, Special Consultative Committee
on Security (OAS)
SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization
SNIE, Special National Intelligence
EstimateS/P Policy Planning Council/Staff
S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department
of State
SS-4, Soviet medium-range ballistic
missile
SS-5, Soviet intermediate-range
ballistic missile
SYG, Secretary General of the United
Nations
TAC, Tactical Control Squadron
TASS, Telegraphnoye Agentstvo
Sovyetskogo Soyuza (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union
telcon, telephone
conversation
Topol, series indicator for
telegrams to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization and European Regional Organizations
U-2, U.S. high-altitude reconnaissance
aircraft
UAR, United Arab Republic
UDT, Underwater Demolition Team
UK, United Kingdom
UN, United Nations
UNMIS, United Nations Mission
urtel, your telegram
USAF, United States Air Force
USG, United States Government
USIA, United States Information
Agency
USIB, United States Intelligence
Board
USMC, United States Marine
Corps
USN, United States Navy
USRO, United States Mission to
European Regional Organizations in Paris