Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume
XXVIII, Laos
Abbreviations
A–1 (Skyraider), single engine
propeller-driven attack plane with one crew member
A–1E, single engine propeller driven
attack aircraft with two crew members
A–1H, single engine propeller driven
attack aircraft
A–26, (Invader), twin engine propeller
driven, World War II era attack aircraft with three crew members
A/A, AA, anti-aircraft; Air
America
AAA, anti-aircraft artillery
AAM, Air America
AARMA, assistant army attache
ACS, air commando squadron
ACW, air commando wing
AD, air division
AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
AID, Agency for International
Development
AIRA, air attache
ALO, air liaison officer
AOC, air operations center
AP, Associated Press
ARMA, Army Attache
ARS, air rescue squadron
ARVN, Army of the Republic of
Vietnam
ASOC, Air Support Operations
Center
B–52 (Statofortress), all
weather, intercontinental, strategic heavy bomber with twin turbojet engines
and a crew of six
B–57 (Canberra), twin engine
turbot jet medium bomber with two crew members
Bango, codename for U.S, aircraft
stationed at Ubon, Thailand, and placed on alert for response to requests
from the air attache in Vientiane for interdiction or support of Royal Lao
Armed Forces
BDA, bomb damage assessment
Barrel Roll, codename for
interdiction and close air support operations in eastern Laos
BNA, Office of British Commonwealth
and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs
bns, battalions
BOB, Bureau of the Budget
BR, Barrel Roll
BR/ST, Barrel Roll/Steel Tiger
C–7 (Caribou), twin engine,
propeller driven, short takeoff and landing aircraft with three crew
members
C–123, twin engine propeller driven,
highwing transport aircraft
CAS, controlled American source
CBU, cluster bomb unit
CC, Communist China
CENTO, Central Treaty
Organization
ChiComs, Chinese Communists
CIA, Central Intelligence
Agency
CIAP, Inter-American Committee for
the Alliance for Progress
CIDG, Citizens' Irregular Defense
Group
CINCPAC, Commander in Chief,
Pacific
CINCPACAF, Commander in Chief,
Pacific Air Force
CINCPACFLT, Commander in Chief,
Pacific Fleet
CINCSAC, Commander in Chief,
Strategic Air Command
CINCUSARPAC, Commander in
Chief, U.S. Army Pacific
CJCS, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
CM, chairman's memorandum
COMUSMACV, Commander, U.S,
Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
CONUS, continental United
States
CORDS, Civil Operations and
Revolutionary Development Support
CP, command post
CSAF, Chief of Staff, Air
Force
CS, riot control gas
CT, Communist Thai
CY, calendar year
D/D, destroyed/damaged
DEPCHJUSMAG, Deputy Chief,
Joint U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group
DEPCMDR, deputy commander
Deptel, Department of State
telegram
DIA, Defense Intelligence
Agency
DJSM, Director of the Joint Staff
memorandum
DMZ, demilitarized zone
DNC, Directorate of National
Coordination
DOD, Department of Defense
DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
DDO/EA, Deputy Directorate of
Operations, East Asia, Central Intelligence Agency
Depcirtel, Department of State
circular telegram
DIA, Defense Intelligence
Agency
DMZ, demilitarized zone
DOD, Department of Defense
DRV, Democratic Republic of
Vietnam
DTG, date/time/group
Duck Soup, plan to intercept and
destroy aircraft resupplying Pathet Lao/North Vietnamese forces in
Laos
Dye Marker, anti-vehicular and
anti-personnel campaign based primarily on mines and sensors
E &E, emergency
evacuation
EA, East Asia
EAP, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, Department of State
Embtel, Embassy telegram
ER, economic research
E.S.T., Eastern Standard Time
EXCOM, executive committee
Exdis, exclusive distribution
F–4 (Phantom), twin engine
turbojet, all weather, supersonic tactical fighter bomber with two
crew
F–5 (Freedom Fighter), twin engine,
turbot jet, supersonic light tactical fighter aircraft with one or two
crew
F–100, single engine turbojet,
supersonic aircraft
FA, Forces Armees (Armed Forces)
FAC, Forward Air Controllers
FAL, Forces Armees de Laos (Lao Armed
Forces)
FAR, Forces Armees du Royaume (Royal
Armed Forces)
Farmgate, codename for 4400th
Combat Crew Training Squadron based at Ben Hoa Air Base, South
Vietnam
FBI, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs,
Department of State
FEOF, foreign exchange operations
fund
FW, free world
FY, fiscal year
FYI, for your information
GM, Group Mobile (usually 3 infantry
battalions and 1 105 mm howitzer)
GNU, Government of National
Union
GVN, Government of Vietnam
H.E., His Excellency
H.H., His Highness
HQ, headquarters
ICC, International Control and
Supervision Commission
IM, intelligence memorandum
INR, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Department of State
INR/RFE, Bureau of Intelligence and
Research, Office of Research and Analysis for the Far East
IBRD, International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
IO, Bureau of International
Organizations Affairs, Department of State
IRG, Interdepartmental Review
Group
ISA, International Security
Affairs
IVS, International Volunteer
Service
J–2, MACV, Intelligence, Military
Assistance Command, Vietnam
JCS, Joint Chief of Staff
JGS, Joint General Staff
JSCM, Joint Chiefs of Staff
memorandum
KIA, killed in action
KM, kilometer
L–19, single engine propeller driven,
high wing light observation aircraft with one or two crew (later designated
O–1 Bird Dog)
Leaping Lena, South Vietnamese
Air Force drops of South Vietnamese intelligence gathering teams along the
Ho Chi Minh Trail
L/FE, Assistant Legal Adviser, Bureau
of Far Eastern Affairs
Limdis, limited distribution
LOC, lines of communication
LPLA, Lao People's Liberation
Army
Lucky Dragon, U–2 aircraft
reconnaissance of the borders of Laos and North and South Vietnam
MACSOG, Military Assistance
Command, Studies and Observation Group
MACV, Military Assistance Command,
Vietnam
MAP, Military Assistance
Program
MG, machine gun
MIA, missing in action
MILAD, military adviser
mm, millimeter
MOD, Ministry of Defense
MR, military region
MSQ, a radar navigation device
Muscles Shoals, air
supported anti-vehicular and anti-personnel system using acoustic and
seismic sensors (Igloo White after July 1968)
NARC, National Army Revolutionary
Committee
NCO, non-commissioned officer
NE, northeast
NKP, Nakhom Phanom
NLF, National Liberation Front
NLHX, Neo Lao Hat Xat (political arm
of the Pathet Lao)
nm, nautical mile
Nodis, no distribution
Noforn, no foreign
distribution
NSA, National Security Agency
NSAM, National Security Action
memorandum
NSC, National Security Council
NVA, NVNA, North Vietnamese
Army
O–1 (Bird Dog), single engine propeller
driven, high wing light observation aircraft with one or two crew
OASD/ISA, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
OB, order of battle
OCI, Office of Current
Intelligence
OP, OPLAN, operations plan
Opord, operations order
OSD, Office of the Secretary of
Defense
PACAF, Pacific, Air Force
PACOM, Pacific Command
PACFLT, Pacific Fleet
PARU, Police Aerial Resupply
Unit
PAVN, People's Army of Vietnam
PCA, positive control area
PD, Presidential determination
PDJ, Plain of Jars (Plaine des
Jarres)
PF, Prairie Fire
PFAO, Prairie Fire Area of
Operations
PL, Pathet Lao
PL/VM, Pathet Lao/Viet Minh
POLAD, political adviser
Popeye, plan for weather
modification in Southeast Asia
POW, prisoner of war
Prairie Fire, air supported,
U.S.-led South Vietnamese reconnaissance teams sent to seek targets and
assess damage to the Ho Chi Minh Trail (formerly Shining Brass)
PRC, People's Republic of China
PRU, Provincial Reconnaissance
Unit
PTT, post, telegraphs, and
telephones,
QM, quartermaster
RB–57, B–57 aircraft modified for
reconnaissance
RDC, Revolutionary Development
Corps
recce, reconnaissance
RF–8 (Crusader), single engine
turbojet supersonic jet fighter modified for reconnaissance
RF–101 (Voodoo),
reconnaissance version of the F–101 twin engine turbojet aircraft with one
crew member
RLAF, Royal Lao Air Force
RLG, Royal Lao Government
RO, Requirements Office
RT–28, T–28 aircraft modified for
reconnaissance
RTA, Royal Thai Army
RTAF, Royal Thai Air Force
RTG, Royal Thai Government
RVNAF, Republic of Vietnam Air Force
or Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces
S, Office of the Secretary of
State
SA, systems analysis
SACSA, Special Assistant for
Counterinsurgency and Special Activities
SAR, search and rescue
SAW, special air warfare
SEA, Southeast Asia
SEACOORD, Southeast Asia
Coordinating Committee
SEATO, Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization
Secto, indicator for telegrams from
the Secretary of State
septel, separate telegram
Shinning Brass, air
supported, U.S-led South Vietnamese intelligence probes of the Ho Chi Minh
Trail (renamed Prairie Fire after March 1, 1967)
SIP, selected interdiction
point
SLAM, seek-locate-annihilate-monitor;
concept operation combining strategic air, tactical air, and Prairie Fire
operation teams
SNIE, Special National Intelligence
Estimate
SOG, Studies and Observation
Group
Southpaw, codename for a plan to
conduct U.S. Special Forces-led raids into the Laos Panhandle using ARVN
forces of one to three battalion strength
SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs,
Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
S/LD, secret/limit distribution
SP, Souvanna Phouma
S/P, Policy Planning Staff of the
Department of State
S/S, Executive Secretariat of the
Department of State
Steel Tiger, U.S. Air Force and
Navy aerial interdiction of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
S/VN, Secretary of State's Special
Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs
SVN, South Vietnam
SWS, Seaboard World Services
T–28, single engine propeller driven
1950s era trainer, crew of two, modified for counterinsurgency
warfare
Tally Ho, intensified interdiction
campaign against the southern Ho Chi Minh Trail
TACAN, tactical air navigation
(radio air navigation system)
Tiger Hound, codename for a
task force, a sub-command of the 2d Air Division, responsible for
interdiction in southeastern Laos
Tosec, indicator for telegrams to
the Secretary of State
TS, Top Secret
TSQ–81, portable version of MSQ–77
(a radar navigation device)
U, unclassified
U–2, single engine, high altitude
turbojet reconnaissance aircraft with one crew member
U–10 (Super Courier), single engine
propeller driven short takeoff and landing aircraft with two crew and room
for two passengers
UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
UN, United Nations
UPI, United Press International
USAID, U.S. Agency for International
Development
USAF, U.S. Air Force
USG, United States Government
USIB, United States Intelligence
Board
USSF, United States Special
Forces
USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics
USUN, United States Mission at the
United Nations
VC, Viet Cong
VN, Vietnam
VNAF, Vietnamese Air Force
VP, vice president
Water Pump, codename for
Detachment 6, First Commando Wing (USAF)
Westpac, Western Pacific
Whiplash, codename for U.S. F–105
aircraft at Korat, Thailand, on alert for rapid response to requests from
the Air Attache in Vientiane for interdiction and/or support of FAR
WIA, wounded in action
Yankee Team, U.S. Air Force and
Navy air reconnaissance and suppressive fire for northern and southern
Laos