Abbreviations and Terms

• • AAU, Amateur Athletic Union
  • ABA, American Booksellers Association
  • ABC, American Broadcasting Company
  • ACEC/S or ACE/S, Secretariat of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange and the Advisory Committee on the Arts, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State
  • ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union
  • AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
  • AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • AFL-CIO, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
  • AFN, Armed Forces Network
  • AFP, Agence France Presse (French Press Agency); also Alliance for Progress
  • AFRTS, Armed Forces Radio and Television Services
  • AID, Agency for International Development
  • ALA, American Library Association
  • Amb., ambassador
  • ANZUS, Australia, New Zealand, United States
  • AOI or USIA/AOI, Office of the Assistant Director, Administration, United States Information Agency after 1967
  • AP, Associated Press
  • ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
  • ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam
  • ASAP, as soon as possible
  • ASEAN, Association of South East Asian Nations
• • BA, Bachelor of Arts
  • BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Benelux, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemboug
  • BNC, Bi-national Center (USIS)
  • BOB, Bureau of the Budget
  • BOQ, Bachelor Officers’ Quarters
  • BPAO, Branch Public Affairs Officer
• • CA, circular airgram (USIA)
  • CAO, cultural affairs officer
  • CAR, Office of Caribbean Affairs, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
  • CAS, controlled American source
  • CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System
  • cc, carbon copy
  • CENTO, Central Treaty Organization
  • CF, confidential file
  • Ch, chair
  • Chieu Hoi, Government of South Vietnam’s Viet Cong repatriation program
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CINCEUR, Commander in Chief, European Command
  • CINCLANT, Commander in Chief, Atlantic
  • CINCPAC or USCINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific Command
  • CINCSO, Commander in Chief, Southern Command
  • CINCSTRIKE, Commander in Chief, Strike Command
  • CINCUSAREUR, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Europe
  • COB, close of business
  • COM, chief of mission
  • ComMedia, communications and media
  • COMSAT, communication satellite
  • COMUSMACV, Commander, United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • Cong., Congress
  • CORDS, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support
  • CORE, Congress of Racial Equality
  • COSATI, (White House) Committee on Scientific and Technological Information
  • CP, cultural presentation
  • CPAO, Chief Public Affairs Officer
  • CPP, Country Plan Program
  • CPPM, Country Plan Program Memorandum
  • CPR, Chinese People’s Republic (People’s Republic of China)
  • CRP, Chinese Reporting Program (USIS)
  • CTR, Carl T. Rowan
  • CU, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State
  • CU/EUR, Office of European Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State
  • CU/MPP, Office of Multilateral Policy and Programs, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State (after mid-1966)
  • CU/MSD, Multilateral and Special Activities, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State (prior to mid-1966)
  • CU/OPP, Office of Policy and Plans, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State
  • CU/PRS, Policy Review and Research Staff, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State (after 1964 the name changed to Policy Review and Coordination Staff)
  • cy, copy
• • D, Democrat
  • DCM, deputy chief of mission
  • Dept., Department
  • Distrib., distribution
  • DM, Deutsche Mark
  • DOD, Department of Defense
  • DOD/ISA, Office of the Assistant Secretary for International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
  • DOD/SACSA, Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, Department of Defense
  • DPAO, Deputy Public Affairs Officer
  • DRV, Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
  • DW or DMW, Donald M. Wilson
• • EA, Office of East Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State (until 1967); also Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State (after 1966)
  • EB, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State
  • EC, European Community
  • ECON, economic section of an embassy
  • EDC, European Defense Community
  • EDT, Eastern Daylight Time
  • EE, Eastern European Affairs or Eastern Europe
  • EEC, European Economic Community
  • Emb., Embassy
  • Embtel, Embassy telegram
  • E.O., Executive Order
  • ERM, Edward R. Murrow
  • EST, Eastern Standard Time
  • ETV, educational television
  • EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/CE, Office of Central European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/EE, Office of Eastern European Affairs or Eastern Europe, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/SES, Soviet and Eastern European Exchanges Staff, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EUR/SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • EWA, Education and World Affairs
  • EXDIS, exclusive distribution
• • FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
  • FCC, Federal Communications Commission
  • FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • Fed., federal
  • ForMin, foreign minister
  • FRG, Federal Republic of Germany
  • FSIO, Foreign Service Information Officer
  • FSO, Foreign Service Officer
  • FSR, Foreign Service Reserve (USIA)
  • FY, fiscal year
  • FYI, for your information
• • G, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • G-77, Group of 77 (group of developing countries established at the conclusion of UNCTAD in 1964)
  • G/Y, Special Assistant for Youth, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • GA, United Nations General Assembly
  • GAO, General Accounting Office
  • GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • GDP, gross domestic product
  • GDR, German Democratic Republic
  • gen., general
  • GI, government issue or general issue
  • GMT, Greenwich Mean Time
  • GOE, general operating expense
  • GOM, Government of Mexico
  • GNP, gross national product
  • GS, General Schedule
  • GSP, generalized system of preferences
  • GVN, Government of Vietnam
• • H, Bureau of Congressional Relations, Department of State
  • HAR, Hewson A. Ryan
  • HEW or DHEW, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
  • HHH, Hubert Horatio Humphrey
  • HICOM Ryukyus, High Commissioner of the Ryukyu Islands
  • HIRC, House International Relations Committee
  • Hop Tac, Government of South Vietnam program for the pacification of Saigon and surrounding provinces
• • I or USIA/I, Office of the Director, United States Information Agency
  • I/O or USIA/I/O, Operations Center, Office of the Director, United States Information Agency
  • I/R or USIA/I/R, Office of the Assistant Director, Public Information, United States Information Agency
  • I/S or USIA I/S, Executive Secretariat, Office of the Director, United States Information Agency
  • IAA or USIA/IAA, Office of the Assistant Director, Africa, United States Information Agency
  • IAE or USIA/IAE, Office of the Assistant Director, Europe, United States Information Agency
  • IAF or USIA/IAF, Office of the Assistant Director, Far East, United States Information Agency (after 1966 the name changed to Office of the Assistant Director, East Asia and Pacific)
  • IAL or USIA/IAL, Office of the Assistant Director, Latin America, United States Information Agency
  • IAN or USIA/IAN, Office of the Assistant Director, Near East and South Asia, United States Information Agency
  • IAS or USIA/IAS, Office of the Assistant Director, Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, United States Information Agency
  • IBS or USIA/IBS, Broadcasting Service, United States Information Agency (after 1967 the named changed to Office of the Assistant Director, Broadcasting)
  • ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile
  • ICRC, International Committee of the Red Cross
  • ICS or USIA/ICS, Information Center Service, United States Information Agency (after 1967 the name changed to Office of the Assistant Director, Information Centers,
  • IFC, International Finance Corporation
  • IGC or USIA/IGC, Office of the General Counsel, United States Information Agency
  • IIE, Institute of International Education
  • IMF, International Monetary Fund
  • IMS or USIA/IMS, Motion Picture Service, United States Information Agency (until 1966)
  • IMV or USIA/IMV, Office of the Assistant Director, Motion Pictures and Television, United States Information Agency (after 1966)
  • Infoguide, policy statement on U.S. attitudes toward a given situation, usually classified and transmitted by telegram or pouch
  • INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • INS, United States Immigration and Naturalization Service
  • IO, international organization; also information officer, United States Information Agency; also, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
  • IOA, Office of the Assistant Director, Administration, United States Information Agency (until 1967; thereafter AOI or USIA/AOI)
  • IOA/B, Agency Budget Officer, Office of the Assistant Director, Administration, United States Information Agency
  • IOC or USIA/IOC, Office of Private Cooperation, United States Information Agency (abolished in 1967 and integrated into IOP and ICS)
  • IOC, International Olympic Committee
  • IOP or USIA/IOP, Office of Policy, United States Information Agency (after 1966 the name changed to Office of Policy and Research)
  • IOP/G or USIA/IOP/G, Policy Guidance Staff, Office of Policy, United States Information Agency (after mid-1967 the name changed to Policy Guidance and Media Reaction Staff)
  • IPS or USIA/IPS, Press and Publication Services, United States Information Agency (after 1967 the named changed to Office of the Director, Press and Publications Service)
  • IPT or USIA/IPT, Office of Personnel and Training, United States Information Agency (after 1967 the name changed to Office of the Assistant Director, Personnel and Training)
  • IRG, Interdepartmental Regional Group
  • IRS or USIA/IRS, Research and Reference Service, United States Information Agency (until mid-1966)
  • ITV or USIA/ITV, Television Service, United States Information Agency (until 1966)
  • IV, International Visitors (cultural exchanges)
• • JSC, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • JUSPAO, Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (South Vietnam)
• • KGB, Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (State Security Committee)
  • Komsomol, youth division, Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • kw, kilowatt
• • L, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State
  • LA, Latin America
  • LBJ, Lyndon Baines Johnson
  • LDB, Lucius D. Battle
  • LDC, less developed country
  • LHM, Leonard H. Marks
• • M, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • M/MO, Management Operations, Department of State
  • MA, Master of Arts
  • MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
  • MACV, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
  • mags., magazines
  • MAP, Military Assistance Program
  • McGB, McGeorge Bundy
  • MECEA, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (Fulbright-Hays Act)
  • MinEd., Ministry of Education
  • MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • mm, millimeter
  • MOA, memorandum of agreement
  • MOI, Ministry of Information (Vietnam)
  • Mopix, motion pictures
  • MOU, memorandum of understanding
  • mtg., meeting
• • NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • NAC, North Atlantic Council
  • NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NBC, National Broadcasting Company
  • NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State; also National Endowment for the Arts
  • NEH, National Endowment for the Humanities
  • NGO, non-governmental organization
  • NIH, National Institutes of Health
  • NLF, National Liberation Front
  • NODIS, no distribution
  • NP, nuclear non-proliferation
  • NPT, nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • NSA, National Security Administration; National Student Association
  • NSAM, National Security Action Memorandum
  • NSC, National Security Council
  • NSF, National Science Foundation
• • O, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
  • O/A, oversize attachment
  • OAS, Organization of American States
  • OBE, overtaken by events
  • OCO, Office of Civil Operations
  • OECD, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • OMB, Office of Management and Budget
  • OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  • ORTF, Office de Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise
• • P, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State; also Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs; also, President
  • P/PG, Policy Plans and Guidance Staff, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State; also Office of Policy Guidance
  • P/VN, Vietnam Desk, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State
  • PAAs, Public Affairs Advisers, Department of State
  • Pak, Pakistan
  • PAM, Program Action Memorandum
  • PAO, public affairs officer
  • para, paragraph
  • PASB, Pan American Sanitary Bureau
  • PAVN, People’s Army of (North) Vietnam
  • PBS, Public Broadcasting Service
  • PEN, non-governmental organization based in the United Kingdom that advocates for human rights, particularly the freedom of expression
  • PKI, Partai Komunis Indonesia (Indonesian Communist Party)
  • P.L., public law; also Pathet Lao
  • PLO, Palestine Liberation Organization
  • PM, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
  • POL, petroleum, oil, lubricants; political section of an Embassy
  • POLAD, Political Adviser
  • PPBS, Planning-Programming-Budgeting System
  • PPP, post project proposal; also program priority paper
  • PRC, People’s Republic of China
  • Pres., President
  • PsyOps, psychological operations
  • PsyWar, psychological war/warfare
  • PVO, private voluntary organization
• • Q & A, question-and-answer
  • QTE, quote
• • R, Republican
  • R & D, research and development
  • RD, Revolutionary Development
  • Ref, reference
  • Reftel, reference telegram
  • Res, resolution
  • Rev., reverend
  • RFE/RL, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  • RG, Record Group
  • RIAS, Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor (United States Radio in the American Sector in Berlin)
  • RLG, Royal Lao Government
  • RLN, Radio Liberty Network
  • ROK or ROKG, Republic of Korea/Republic of Korea Government
  • rpt., repeat
  • rptd., repeated
  • RSC, Regional Service Center (USIA)
  • RTD, R.T. Davies
• • S, Office of the Secretary of State; also, Senate
  • S–5, Civil Affairs or Civil Affairs Officer(s)
  • S/AH, Ambassador At Large W. Averell Harriman
  • S/AL, Ambassador At Large Henry Cabot Lodge
  • S/P, Policy Planning Council, Department of State
  • S/PRS, Office of Press Relations, Office of the Secretary of State
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat, Department of State
  • SAT, satellite
  • SCA, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, Department of State
  • SE, Southeast
  • SEATO, South East Asia Treaty Organization
  • Sec, Secretary
  • SECAF, Secretary of the Air Force
  • SECNAV, Secretary of the Navy
  • SECSTATE, Secretary of State
  • Sen, Senator
  • SFRC, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • SIG, Senior Interdepartmental Group
  • SOP (S.O.P.), standard operating procedure
  • SOV, Office of Soviet Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • SovBloc, Soviet Bloc
  • Spaso/Spaso House, residence of United States Ambassadors in Moscow since 1933.
  • STADIS, distribution within the Department of State only
  • Stat., statute
• • TASS, Telegrafnoe Agenstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza (Telegram Agency of the Soviet Union)
  • Telex, switched network of teleprinters
  • TV, television
• • U, Office of the Under Secretary of State
  • UAE, United Arab Emirates
  • UAR, United Arab Republic
  • UK, United Kingdom
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNDP, United Nations Development Programme
  • UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
  • UNGA, United National General Assembly
  • UNICEF, United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund
  • UPI, United Press International
  • US, United States
  • USA, United States of America; also United States Army
  • USACI, U.S. Advisory Commission on Information
  • USAF, U.S. Air Force
  • U.S.C., U.S. Code
  • USEC, U.S. Mission to the European Community
  • USG, U.S. Government
  • USIA, U.S. Information Agency
  • USINFO, series indicator for messages from USIS
  • USIS, U.S. Information Service
  • USITO, series indicator for telegrams from the U.S. Information Agency to its overseas missions
  • USN, U.S. Navy
  • USOE, U.S. Office of Education
  • USOM, U.S. Operations Mission
  • USRO, U.S. Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations
  • USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • USUN, U.S. Mission to the United Nations
• • VC, Viet Cong
  • VIP, very important person
  • VIS, Vietnamese Information Service
  • VOA, Voice of America
• • WH, White House
  • Wireless File, daily news service supplied to the field by USIA
  • WWE, Worldwide English
• • YMCA, Young Men’s Christian Association
• • Z, Zulu (Greenwich Mean Time)