Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume
XIII, Soviet Union, October 1970–October 1971
Abbreviations and Terms
- ABC, American
Broadcasting Company
- ABM, anti-ballistic
missile
- ACDA, Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency
- AEC, Atomic Energy
Commission
- AH,
Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
- Amb, Ambassador
- AP, Associated
Press
- ARE, Arab Republic of
Egypt
- ARVN, Army of the
Republic of (South) Vietnam
- ASAP, as soon as
possible
- ASW, anti-submarine
warfare
- B–52, all-weather,
intercontinental, strategic heavy bomber
- BBC, British
Broadcasting Corporation
- BDA, bombing damage
assessment
- BH,
Bob Haldeman
- BW, biological
weapons
- C–130, high-wing,
four-turboprop engine aircraft used for rapid transportation of troops
and/or equipment
- CBS, Columbia
Broadcasting System
- CBW, Convention on
Biological Weapons
- CC, Central
Committee
- CCC, Commodity Credit
Corporation
- CDU, Christian
Democratic Union
- CDU/CSU, Christian
Democratic Union/Christian Social Union
- CENTO, Central
Treaty Organization
- CEQ, Council on
Environmental Quality
- CES, Conference on
European Security
- ChiCom(s), Chinese
Communist(s)
- ChiRep, Chinese
representation (at the United Nations)
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CIEP, Council on
International Economic Policy
- COB, close of
business
- COCOM, Coordinating
Committee on Export Controls
- Codel, Congressional
delegation
- CPD, series indicator
for communications sent by President Nixon while at Camp David
- CPSU, Communist Party
of the Soviet Union
- CSCE, Conference on
Security and Cooperation in Europe
- CW, chemical
weapons
- D, Democrat
- D,
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
- DCI, Director of
Central Intelligence
- DCM, Deputy Chief of
Mission
- Dept,
Department
- Deptel, Department
of State telegram
- Deptoff,
Department officer
- Dissem,
dissemination
- DMZ, demilitarized
zone
- DOD, Department of
Defense
- DOD/ISA, Office of
International Security Affairs, Department of Defense
- DOS, Department of
State
- DRV or DRVN,
Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam
- EC, European
Community
- EC–121, unarmed,
four-engine propeller-driven reconnaissance aircraft
- EDT, Eastern Daylight
Time
- Emb, Embassy
- Emboff, Embassy
officer
- Embtel, Embassy
telegram
- EOB, Executive Office
Building
- ESC, European Security
Conference
- EST, Eastern Standard
Time
- ETA, estimated time of
arrival
- EUR, Bureau of
European Affairs, Department of State
- EUR/GER, Office of
Germany Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
- EUR/RPM, Office of
NATO and Atlantic Political-Military
Affairs, 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
- Exdis, exclusive
distribution
- EXIM or Ex-Im,
Export-Import Bank of Washington
- FBI, Federal Bureau of
Investigation
- FBIS, Foreign
Broadcast Information Service
- FBS, forward based
system
- FDR, Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
- FM, Foreign
Minister
- FonMin, Foreign
Minister
- FRC, Federal Records
Center
- FRG, Federal Republic
of Germany
- FYI, for your
information
- GDR, German Democratic
Republic
- GM, General Motors
Corporation
- GMT, Greenwich Mean
Time
- GVN, Government of
(South) Vietnam
- HAK,
Henry Alfred Kissinger
- Hakto, series
indicator for messages sent from Henry A.
Kissinger while away from Washington
- HEW, Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
- ICBM,
intercontinental ballistic missile
- IG, interdepartmental
group
- IG/EUR,
Interdepartmental Group for Europe
- INR, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INR/DRR/RSE,
Office of Research and Analysis for USSR
and Eastern Europe, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of
State
- INR/DRR/RSE/FP, Soviet Foreign Affairs Division, Officer of
Research and Analysis for USSR and Eastern
Europe, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- IO, Bureau of
International Organization Affairs, Department of State
- JCS, Joint Chiefs of
Staff
- JDL, Jewish Defense
League
- JFK,
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- JRC, Joint
Reconnaissance Center
- K,
Kissinger
- KGB,
Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (State Security
Committee)
- LBJ,
Lyndon Baines Johnson
- LDX, long distance
xerography
- Limdis, limited
distribution
- LP, liquefied
petroleum
- MARC, Modern ABM Radar Complex
- MBFR, mutual and
balanced force reductions
- ME, Middle East
- Memcon, memorandum
of conversation
- MFA, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
- MFN, Most Favored
Nation
- MIRV, multiple
independently-targetable reentry vehicle
- MSR, Missile Site
Radar
- NASA, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NATO, North Atlantic
Treaty Organization
- NBC, National
Broadcasting Company
- NCA, National Capital
Area
- NEA, Bureau of Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- NEA/RA, Office of
Regional Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department
of State
- Niact, night action,
telegram indicator requiring immediate action
- NIC, National
Intelligence Council
- NIE, National
Intelligence Estimate
- NLF, National
Liberation Front
- Nodis, no
distribution (other than to persons indicated)
- Noforn, no foreign
distribution
- Notal, not received
by all addressees
- NPT, (Nuclear)
Non-Proliferation Treaty
- NSA, National Security
Agency
- NSC, National Security
Council
- NSC–IG, National
Security Council Interdepartmental Group
- NSDM, National
Security Decision Memorandum
- NSSM, National
Security Study Memorandum
- NVA, North Vietnamese
Army
- NVN, North
Vietnam
- OASD/ISA, Office
of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs
- OBE, overtaken by
events
- OSD, Office of the
Secretary of Defense
- OST, Office of Science
and Technology
- P, President
- PBS, Public
Broadcasting Service
- PDT, Pacific Daylight
Time
- PermRep, Permanent
Representative
- PM, Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State
- PNE, peaceful nuclear
explosion
- POL, petroleum, oil,
and lubricants
- POW, prisoner of
war
- PR, public
relations
- PRC, People’s Republic
of China
- PRG, Provisional
Revolutionary Government (South Vietnam)
- PST, Pacific Standard
Time
- R, Republican
- ref, reference
- reftel, reference
telegram
- RFE, Radio Free
Europe
- RG, record group
- RL, Radio
Liberty
- RN,
Richard Nixon
- S, Office of the
Secretary of State
- SALT, Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks
- SAM, surface-to-air
missile
- SEATO, Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization
- SED, Socialist Unity
Party (East Germany)
- Septel, separate
telegram
- Sitto, series
indicator for messages sent to Henry A.
Kissinger while away from Washington, especially during his
secret trip to Moscow in April 1972, when communications were routed through
the Situation Room in the White House
- SLBM,
submarine-launched ballistic missile
- Sov, Soviet
- SOV, Office of Soviet
Union Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
- S/P, Policy Planning
Staff, Department of State
- SPD, Social Democratic
Party (West Germany)
- SRG, Senior Review
Group
- S/S, Executive
Secretariat, Department of State
- SU, Soviet Union
- SVN, South
Vietnam
- TAC, Tactical Air
Command
- TASS,
Telegrafnoe Agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza (Telegram
Agency of the Soviet Union)
- Telcon, telephone
conversation
- Tohak, series
indicator for messages sent to Henry A.
Kissinger while away from Washington
- Tosit, series
indicator for messages sent to the White House Situation Room
- U–8,
U.S. military utility aircraft
- UAR, United Arab
Republic
- UK, United
Kingdom
- UN, United
Nations
- UNGA, United Nations
General Assembly
- UNSC, United Nations
Security Council
- US, United
States
- USA, United States
Army
- USAF, United States
Air Force
- USCP, United States
Communist Party
- USDel, United States
Delegate/Delegation
- USG, United States
Government
- USIA, United States
Information Agency
- USIB, United States
Intelligence Board
- USNATO, United
States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; also series
indicator for telegrams from the Mission to the Department of State
- USS, United States
Ship
- USSR, Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
- USUN, United States
Mission to the United Nations in New York
- V, Vietnam
- VIP, very important
person
- VN, Vietnam
- VOA, Voice of
America
- WH, White House
- WSAG, Washington
Special Actions Group
- Z, Zulu time (Greenwich
Mean Time)