Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume IV,
Vietnam, 1966
Abbreviations and Terms
- AAA, anti-aircraft
artillery
- AEC, Atomic Energy
Commission
- AFC, Armed Forces
Council
- ANZUS, Australia,
New Zealand, United States
- AID, Agency for
International Development
- AP, Associated
Press
- Arc Light, code
name for U.S. B–52 bombing strikes in Southeast Asia
- ARVN, Army of the
Republic of (South) Vietnam
- ASA, Association of
Southeast Asia
- ASPAC, Asian Pacific
Council
- Aspen, code name for
U.S. peace negotiations through Swedish channels
- Barrel Roll,
code name for U. S. air operations over northern Laos
- CAP, series indicator
for outgoing White House telegrams; combat air patrol; combined action
platoon
- CAS, controlled
American source
- ChiCom, Chinese
Communist
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CIAP, Inter-American
Committee on the Alliance for Progress
- CIDG, Civilian
Irregular Defense Group
- Chieu Hoi, South
Vietnamese Governmentʼs repatriation program for the Viet Cong
- CINCPAC, Commander
in Chief, Pacific
- CINCPACAF,
Commander in Chief, Pacific Air Force
- CINCPACFLT,
Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet
- CINCUSARPAC,
Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Pacific
- CIP, Commercial Import
Program
- CJCS, Chairman, Joint
Chiefs of Staff
- COMUSMACV,
Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
- CONUS, Continental
United States
- CY, calendar
year
- DCI, Director of
Central Intelligence
- DCM, Deputy Chief of
Mission
- DepSecDef,
Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Deptel, Department
of State telegram
- DIA, Defense
Intelligence Agency
- DCI, Director of
Central Intelligence
- DepCOMUSMACV,
Deputy Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
- DirGen, Director
General
- Dissem,
dissemination
- DMZ, Demilitarized
Zone
- DOD, Department of
Defense
- DTG,
date-time-group
- DRV, Democratic
Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
- EA, Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs (Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs prior to November
1, 1966), Department of State
- EA/ACA, Office of
Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
Department of State
- EA/DDO, East Asia
Division, Directorate for Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
- EA/VN, Vietnam
Working Group, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of
State
- Elmtree, code name
for U.S. contacts with Nguyen Khanh
and Le Van Truong in Paris
- Embtel, Embassy
telegram
- EST, Eastern Standard
Time
- EW, electronic
warfare
- Exdis, exclusive
distribution
- FBIS, Foreign
Broadcast Information Service
- FE, Bureau of Far
Eastern Affairs, Department of State
- FE/VN, Vietnam
Working Group, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
- FNL, National
Liberation Front
- FMin, Foreign
Minister
- FonOff, Foreign
Office
- FonMin, Foreign
Minister
- FRC, Federal Records
Center
- FULRO, Unified Front
for the Liberation of Oppressed Races, a movement for Monta-gnard
autonomy
- FW, Free World
- FWF, Free World
Forces
- FWMAF, Free World
Military Assistance Forces
- FY, fiscal year
- FYI, for your
information
- George, code name
for Paul Sturm in Elmtree contacts
- GOF, Government of
France
- Gp, Group
- GRC, Government of the
Republic of China
- GVN, Government of
(South) Vietnam
- HEW, Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
- HMG, Her Majestyʼs
Government
- Hop Tac, South
Vietnamese Governmentʼs program for pacification of Saigon and surrounding
provinces; literally “victory”
- ICC, International
Control Commission
- ICRC, International
Committee of the Red Cross
- IMF, International
Monetary Fund
- Info,
information
- INR, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- ISA, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
- JCRR, Joint
Commission on Rural Reconstruction
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
- JCSM, Joint Chiefs of
Staff memorandum
- JGS, Joint General
Staff, Vietnamese Armed Forces
- JUSPAO, Joint
United States Public Affairs Office
- KIA, killed in
action
- Limdis, limited
distribution
- LOC, line of
communication
- Louisiana, code
name for U.S. effort to secure additional foreign country forces for the
Vietnam War
- M, million
- MACV, Military
Assistance Command, Vietnam
- MAP, Military
Assistance Program
- Marigold, code
name for U.S. peace negotiations through Polish and Italian channels
- McN, Robert
McNamara
- MFA, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
- MIG, Soviet-built
fighter aircraft
- NATO, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
- NCO, non-commissioned
officer
- NFLSV, National
Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam
- NLF, National
Liberation Front
- NIE, National
Intelligence Estimate
- Nina, code name for
Department of State communications concerning the decision in late June 1966
to bomb POL installations
- NM, nautical
miles
- Nodis, no
distribution
- Noforn, no foreign
distribution
- NSA, National Security
Agency
- NSAM, National
Security Action Memorandum
- NSC, National Security
Council
- NVA, North Vietnamese
Army
- NVN, North
Vietnam
- OAS, Organization of
American States
- OASD, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense
- O/B, order of
battle
- O/DDI, Office of the
Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
- ONE, Office of
National Estimates, Central Intelligence Agency
- OCO, Office of Civil
Operations
- OSD, Office of the
Secretary of Defense
- P, President;
piasters
- PAT, Political Action
Team
- PAVN, Peopleʼs Army
of (North) Vietnam
- PF, Popular
Forces
- PFF, Police Field
Forces; usually referred to as National Police Field Forces (NPFF)
- Pinta, code name for
U.S. peace negotiations during the 37-day bombing pause
- P.L., Public Law
- PM, Prime
Minister
- POL, petroleum, oil,
lubricants
- POLAD, Political
Adviser
- POW, prisoner of
war
- PW, prisoner of
war
- PX, post
exchange
- Ray, code name for
Nguyen Khanh in the Elmtree contacts
- RD, Revolutionary
Development
- Recce,
reconnaissance
- Reftel, reference
telegram
- RF, Regional
Forces
- RG, Record Group
- ROK, Republic of
Korea
- Rolling
Thunder, code name for long-running program of U.S. air
operations in North Vietnam
- RT,
Rolling Thunder
- RVN, Republic of South
Vietnam
- RVNAF, Republic of
Vietnam Armed Forces
- S, Secret
- SAM, surface to air
missiles
- SANE, National
Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
- SAR, search and
rescue
- SAVA, Special
Assistant for Vietnamese Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
- SEA, Southeast
Asia
- SEATO, Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization
- SecDef, Secretary
of Defense
- Secto, series
indicator for telegrams from the Secretary of State while away from
Washington
- Septel, separate
telegram
- SFRC, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee
- SNIE, Special
National Intelligence Estimate
- Sitrep, situation
report
- S/S, Executive
Secretariat, Department of State
- Steel Tiger,
code name for U.S. air strikes against the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos
- SVN, South
Vietnam
- SYG, Secretary-General
of the United Nations
- Tac, tactical
- TAOR, tactical area
of responsibility
- TCC, troop
contributing countries
- Thich, Venerable
(title for Buddhist monk)
- Thrush, code name
for U.S. operation to secure the defection of National Liberation Front
Chairman Nguyen Huu Tho
- Tosec, series
indicator for telegrams to the Secretary of State while away from
Washington
- TS, Top Secret
- U, Unclassified
- UBA, Unified Buddhist
Association
- UK, United
Kingdom
- UN, United
Nations
- Uncle, code name for
Nguyen Huu An in the Thrush
contacts
- UNGA, United Nations
General Assembly
- UPI, United Press
International
- Urtel, your
telegram
- USAID, United States
Agency for International Development Mission (in Vietnam)
- USG, United States
Government
- USIA, United States
Information Agency
- USOM, United States
Operations Mission
- USSR, Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
- USUN, United States
Mission to the United Nations
- VC, Viet Cong
- VIP, very important
person
- VIS, Vietnamese
Information Service
- VN, Vietnam; Vietnam
Working Group, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of
State
- VNAF, (South)
Vietnamese Air Force
- VNCC, Vietnam
Coordinating Committee
- VNQDD, Viet Nam Quoc
Dan Dang (Vietnamese Nationalist Party)
- VP, Vice
President
- WAC, Womenʼs Army
Corps
- WAVES, Women
Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service
- WH, White House
- X, code name for Mai Van
Bo
- XYZ, code name for
unofficial U.S. contacts with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam through Mai
Van Bo
- Y, code name for
Paul Sturm in the XYZ contacts
- Z, Zulu or Greenwich
Mean Time