Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950–1955, The
Intelligence Community, 1950–1955
Abbreviations and Terms
- AD/ORE, Assistant
Director for Reports and Estimates
- ADPC, Assistant
Director for Policy Coordination, CIA
- ADSO, Assistant
Director for Special Operations (CIG and
CIA)
- AEC, Atomic Energy
Commission
- AFSA, Armed Forces
Security Agency
- AFSS, Air Force
Security Service
- ARC, Air Resupply and
Communications
- ARPA, Advanced
Research Projects Agency
- ASA, Army Security
Agency
- ATIC, Air Technical
Intelligence Center
- BOB, Bureau of the
Budget
- BW, biological
warfare
- CA, covert action; also
circular airgram
- CAS, Cleared American
Source
- CAT, Civil Air
Transport
- CE, Division of Central
European Affairs, Department of State; also Counter-Espionage
- CENTO, Central
Treaty Organization
- CERP, Combined
Economic Reporting Program
- CG, Commanding
General
- CI,
Counter-intelligence
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CID, Criminal
Investigative Division; also Counter-intelligence Division
- CIG, Central
Intelligence Group
- CO, Commanding
Officer
- COAPS, Coordination,
Operations and Policy/Planning Staff
- COMINT,
Communications Intelligence
- CP, Communist
party
- CRITIC, Critical
Intelligence Communications
- CSP, Chief, Special
Projects Division, Office of Policy Coordination
- CW, chemical
warfare
- DCD, Domestic Contacts
Division
- DCI, Director of
Central Intelligence (CIG and CIA)
- DCID, Director of
Central Intelligence Directive
- DDCI, Deputy Director
of Central Intelligence (CIG and CIA)
- DDA, Deputy Director
for Administration
- DDC, Deputy Director
for Coordination
- DDI, Deputy Director
for Intelligence
- DDO, Deputy Director
for Operations
- DDP, Deputy Director
for Plans
- DD/S&T, Deputy
Director for Science and Technology
- DIRNSA, Director,
National Security Agency
- DNI, Director of Naval
Intelligence
- DOD, Department of
Defense
- DPD, Development
Projects Division
- E & E, escape and
evasion
- ECA, Economic
Cooperation Administration
- ECM, electronic
counter-measures
- ELINT, electronic
intelligence
- ES/NSC, Executive
Secretary, National Security Council
- EUCOM, European
Command
- EUR, Bureau of
European Affairs, Department of State
- FBI, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
- FBID, Foreign
Broadcast Information Division
- FBIS, Foreign
Broadcast Information Service
- FE, Office of Far
Eastern Affairs, Department of State
- FEA, Foreign Economic
Administration
- FEC, Free Europe
Committee
- FI, Foreign
Intelligence
- FOA, Foreign
Operations Administration
- FSO, Foreign Service
Officer
- FSR, Foreign Service
Reserve
- FTX, field training
exercise
- FY, fiscal year
- G–2, intelligence
section of divisional or higher staff
- G–5, civil affairs
section of divisional or higher staff
- GAO, General
Accounting Office
- GCHQ, General
Communications Headquarters (UK)
- GMAIC, Guided
Missile and Astronautics Intelligence Committee
- GMIC, Guided Missile
Intelligence Committee
- HICOG, High
Commissioner for Germany
- HUMINT, human
intelligence
- IAB, Intelligence
Advisory Board
- IAC, Intelligence
Advisory Committee
- IAD, Acquisition and
Distribution Division, Office of Research and Intelligence, Department of
State
- IBD, International
Broadcasting Division
- ICA, International
Cooperation Administration
- ICBM,
intercontinental ballistic missile
- ICIS,
Interdepartmental Committee on Internal Security
- ICS, Interdepartmental
Coordinating Staff; also Intelligence Community Staff
- IDP, Initial
deployment plan
- IFIO, International
Foreign Information Organization
- IFIS, International
Foreign Information Staff
- IG, Inspector
General
- IIC, Interdepartmental
Intelligence Committee
- IS, Intelligence
Staff
- ISA, International
Security Affairs, Department of Defense
- INR, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- J–2,
JCS intelligence organization
- JAEIC, Joint Atomic
Energy Intelligence Committee
- JANIS, Joint
Army-Navy Intelligence Studies
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
- JIC, Joint
Intelligence Committee; also Joint Intelligence Center
- JIS, Joint
Intelligence Staff
- JISPD, Joint
Intelligence Studies Publication Board
- JOT, junior officer
trainee
- JRC, Joint
Reconnaissance Center
- JRDB, Joint Research
and Development Board
- JSPD, Joint
Subsidiary Plans Division
- JTIS, Joint Technical
Intelligence Subcommittee
- L, Legal Adviser,
Department of State
- MAAG, Military
Assistance Advisory Group
- MI, military
intelligence
- MID, Military
Intelligence Division, Department of the Army
- MIS, Military
Intelligence Staff, War Department General Staff; also military intelligence
service
- NATO, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
- NCFE, National
Committee for a Free Europe
- NIA, National
Intelligence Authority
- NIC, National
Indications Center of the IAC Watch
Committee
- NIE, National
Intelligence Estimate
- NIS, National
Intelligence Survey; also National Intelligence Summary
- NPIC, National
Photographic Interpretation Center
- NSA, National Security
Agency
- NSC, National Security
Council
- NSCID, National
Security Council Intelligence Directive
- NSG, Navy Security
Group
- NSRB, National
Security Resources Board
- NTPC, National
Technical Processing Center
- OB, order of
battle
- OCB, Operations
Coordination Board
- OCD, Office of
Collection and Dissemination
- OCI, Office of Current
Intelligence
- ODA, Office of
Departmental Administration, Bureau of Administration, Department of
State
- ODM, Office of Defense
Mobilization
- OIR, Office of
Intelligence Research
- OLI, Office of
Libraries and Intelligence Acquisition
- ONE, Office of
National Estimates
- ONI, Office of Naval
Intelligence, Department of Navy
- ONR, Office of Naval
Research
- OO, Office of
Operations
- OPC, Office of Policy
Coordination
- OPD, Operations
Division, War Department
- ORE, Office of
Research and Evaluation; also Office of Reports and Estimates
- OSO, Office of Special
Operations
- OSS, Office of
Strategic Services
- OWI, Office of War
Information
- PACAF, Pacific Air
Forces
- PACOM, Pacific
Command
- PBCFIA, President’s
Board of Consultants for Foreign Intelligence Activities
- PCG, Planning
Coordination Group
- PFIAB, President’s
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
- PHOTINT,
photographic intelligence
- PIC, Photographic
Interpretation Center
- PM, Directorate of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State; also paramilitary
- PNG, persona non
grata
- PNIO, priority
national intelligence objectives
- POCC, Psychological
Operations Coordinating Committee
- PP, political and
psychological
- PSB, Psychological
Strategy Board
- R, Secretary of State’s
Special Assistant for Research and Intelligence
- R&A, research and
analysis
- R&D, Research and
development
- RFA, Radio Free
Asia
- RFE, Radio Free
Europe
- RIAS, Radio in the
American Sector
- ROB, radar order of
battle
- ROKG, Republic of
Korea Government
- RTG, Reconnaissance
Technical Group
- S&T, Science and
Technology
- SAC, Strategic Air
Command
- SANACC,
State-Army-Navy-Air Coordinating Committee
- SE, Special
Estimate
- SEC, Scientific
Estimates Committee
- SESP, Special
Electronic Airborne Search Operations
- SHAPE, Supreme
Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
- SI, special
intelligence
- SIS, Special
Intelligence Service
- SNIE, Special
National Intelligence Estimate
- SO or SOPAG,
Special Operations
- SOVMAT, Soviet
material
- SWNCC,
State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee
- T/O, table of
organization
- TAC, Tactical Air
Command
- UNO, United Nations
Organization
- USAFE, U.S. Air
Forces, Europe
- USCIB, U.S.
Communications Intelligence Board
- USEB, U.S. Evaluation
Board
- USFA, U.S. Forces in
Austria
- USIA, U.S.
Information Agency
- USIB, U.S.
Intelligence Board
- USIE, U.S.
Information and Education (Program)
- USRO, U.S. Mission to
NATO and European Regional
Organizations
- USSR, Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
- VOA, Voice of
America
- ZI, zone of
interior