ACDA, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACDA/D, Office of the Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACDA/DD, Office of the Deputy Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACDA/IR, Office of International Relations?, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
AG, Attorney General
ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
ASD (A), Assistant Secretary of Defense (Administration)
ASD (I), Assistant Secretary of Defense (Intelligence)
ASD (SA), Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis)
ASW, antisubmarine warfare
BOB, Bureau of the Budget
BR, Biological (Bacteriological) Research
BRDP, Blue Ribbon Defense Panel
BW, Biological (Bacteriological) Warfare
CAP, series indicator for outgoing White House telegrams
CAS, controlled American source
CASP, Country Analysis and Strategy Paper
CBW, Chemical and Biological (Bacteriological) Warfare.
CC-CPSU, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CCD, Conference of the Committee on Disarmament
CCP, Consolidated Cryptologic Program
CDIP, Consolidated Defense Intelligence Program
CEA, Council of Economic Advisers
CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
CIEP, Council on International Economic Policy
CIP, Consolidated Intelligence Program
CL, classified
COMINT, communications intelligence
Comite, committee
COMSEC, communications security
CPR, Chinese People’s Republic
CPSU, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CTB, Comprehensive Test Ban
CW, Chemical Warfare
D/DCI/IC, Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for the Intelligence Community
D/DCI/NIPE, Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for National Intelligence Programs Evaluation
D/INR, Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
D/NRO, Director, National Reconnaissance Office
DCI, Director of Central Intelligence
DCID, Director of Central Intelligence Directive
DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
DD/P, Deputy Director for Plans, Central Intelligence Agency
DD/S&T, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Central Intelligence Agency
DDC, Office of the Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
DDCI, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
DDI, Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
DDO/IMS, Deputy Director for Operations/Information Management Staff, Central Intelligence Agency
DDR&E, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Department of Defense
Del, delegate
Dept, Department
Deptel, Department of State telegram
DG, Director General of the Foreign Service, Department of State
DIA, Defense Intelligence Agency
DIRNSA, Director, National Security Agency
DIS, Defense Investigative Service
Dissem, dissemination
DOD, Department of Defense
DOS, Department of State
DPRC, Defense Program Review Committee
E, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State; John Ehrlichman
ELINT, electronic intelligence
ELR, Elliot L. Richardson
ENDC, Eighteen-Nation Disarmament Committee
EOB, Executive Office Building
EPA, Environmental Protection Agency
EST, Eastern Standard Time
EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
EURATOM, European Atomic Energy Community
Exdis, Exclusive Distribution
F.R., Federal Register
FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
FonMin, Foreign Ministry
FonOff, Foreign Office
FRC, Federal Records Center
FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
FSO, Foreign Service Officer
FY, fiscal year
FYI, for your information
G, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
GAC, General Advisory Committee, ACDA
G/PM, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
GC, General Counsel
GDR, German Democratic Republic
GOJ, Government of Japan
H, Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations
HAK, Henry A. Kissinger
HUMINT, human intelligence
IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency
ICBM, Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
ICC, International Control Commission
ICJ, International Court of Justice
IDA, Institute for Defense Analysis
IG, Interdepartmental Group
IG/EUR, Interdepartmental Group for Europe
INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
INR/DDC, Office of the Deputy Director for Coordination, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
INR/IL, Intelligence Liaison, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
IPMG, Interdepartmental Political-Military Group
IRBM, intermediate-range ballistic missile
IRG, Interdepartmental Regional Group
ISA, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
J/PM, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
K, Kissinger
L, Legal Adviser, Department of State
LANFZ, Latin American Nuclear Free Zone
Limdis, Limited Distribution
LTBT, Limited Test Ban Treaty
M, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Department of State
MBFR, Mutual Balanced Force Reductions
Mbr, member
ME, Middle East
memcon, memorandum of conversation
MIRV, Multiple Independently-Targeted Reentry Vehicle
Misoff, Mission Officer
MLF, multilateral force
MR, Memorandum for the Record
MRV, Multiple Reentry Vehicle
Mtg, meeting
NAC, North Atlantic Council
NAS, National Academy of Sciences
NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCA, National Command Authority
NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
NIRB, National Intelligence Resources Board
NNWS, non-nuclear weapon states
Nodis, No Distribution
Noforn, not releasable to foreign nationals
NPG, Nuclear Planning Group
NPT, Non-Proliferation Treaty
NRO, National Reconnaissance Office
NRP, National Reconnaissance Program
NSA, National Security Agency
NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
NSC, National Security Council
NSC/OCB, National Security Council, Operations Coordinating Board
NSCID, National Security Council Intelligence Directive
NSDM, National Security Decision Memorandum
NSF, National Science Foundation
NUF, Non-use of Force
O, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
O/DDI, Office of the Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
OAS, Organization of American States
OASD, ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs
OASD, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
OASD, SA, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Systems Analysis
OEP, Office of Emergency Preparedness
OMB, Office of Management and Budget
ONE, Office of National Estimates
OPANAL, Organization for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America
OSD, Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSI, Office of Scientific Intelligence; on-site inspection
OST, Office of Science and Technology
P, President; Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
P. L., Public Law
Para, paragraph
PDB, President’s Daily Brief
PFIAB, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
PHOTINT, photo intelligence
PM, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
PM/ISP, Office of International Security Policy and Planning, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
PMG, Politico-Military Group
PNE, Peaceful Nuclear Explosion
Polad, Political Adviser
PPBS, Planning-Programming-Budgeting System
PRC, People's Republic of China
Pres, President
PSAC, President’s Science Advisory Committee
R&D, research and development
RDT&E, research, development, test, and evaluation
reftel, reference telegram
RG, Record Group; Review Group
RMN, Richard M. Nixon
RN, Richard M. Nixon
S, Office of the Secretary of State
S/P, Policy Planning Council or Staff, Department of State
S/PC, Planning and Coordination Staff, Department of State
S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
S/S-I, Information Section, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
SAC, Strategic Air Command
SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SAM, Surface to Air Missile
SC, Security Council
SCI, Office of International Scientific and Technological Affairs, Department of State
SEA, Southeast Asia
SecDef, Secretary of Defense
Septel, separate telegram
SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
SIG, Senior Interdepartmental Group
SIGINT, signals intelligence
SIPRI, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
SLBM, Submarine-launched Ballistic Missile
SLCM, Submarine-launched Cruise Missile
SNIE, Special National Intelligence Estimate
SOP, standard operating procedure
SOSUS, Sound Surveillance Undersea System
SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State; Country Director, Soviet Union, Bureau of European Affairs
SRG, Senior Review Group
SSR, Soviet Socialist Republic
SU, Soviet Union
SYG, Secretary General, United Nations
TASS, Telegrafnoye Agentsvo Sovetskogo Soiuza (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union)
TIAS, Treaties and other International Acts Series
TS, Top Secret
U, Office of the Under Secretary of State; Under Secretary of State
U/SM, Under Secretaries Memorandum
UK, United Kingdom
ULM, Undersea Long-range Missile
UN, United Nations
UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
US, United States
USAEC, United States Atomic Energy Commission
USC, NSC Under Secretaries Committee
USG, United States Government
USIA, United States Information Agency
USIB, United States Intelligence Board
USIS, United States Information Service
USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USUN , United States Mission to the United Nations
VOA, Voice of America
WDC, World Disarmament Conference
Z, Zulu time (Greenwich mean time)
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