Foreign Relations of the United States, 1977–1980, Volume XI,
Part 1, Iran: Hostage Crisis, November 1979–September 1980
Abbreviations and Terms
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- A-6, U.S.
long-range attack aircraft
- AA,anti-aircraft
- ACQ,
acquired
- ADA, Air
Defense Artillery
- AFB, Air
Force Base
- Amb,
Ambassador
- ARAMCO,
Arabian-American Oil Company
- AWB,
Australian Wheat Board
- AWACS,
Airborne Early Warning and Control
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- B, Christian
Bourguet
- B-52, U.S.
bomber
- B&V,
Bourguet and Villalon
- BDG,
Bangladesh Government
- bpd, barrels
per day
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- C, Jimmy
Carter; Confidential
- C-5, U.S.
military transport aircraft
- C-9, U.S.
aeromedical transport aircraft
- C-130,
Hercules, general purpose, four-engine fixed wing military transport
aircraft
- C-141,
Starlifter, fixed wing military transport aircraft
- C-5, Galaxy,
fixed wing military transport aircraft
- C&R,communications and records
- C3I, Communications, Command, Control,
and Intelligence
- CA, Bureau of
Consular Affairs, Department of State
- CENTO,
Central Treaty Organization
- Cherokee, telegraphic distribution channel for the
Eyes Only messages between the Secretary of State and an
Ambassador
- CIA, Central
Intelligence Agency
- CINC,
Commander in Chief
- CINCPAC,
Commander in Chief, Pacific Command
- CJCS,
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- COG,
Continuity of Government
- COMSAT,
Communications Satellite Corporation
- CONUS,
Continental United States
- CPX, Command
Post Exercise
- CRICON,
Crisis Confrontation
- COMJTF,
Commander Joint Task Force:
- CT,
Counterterrorism
- CTJTF,
Counterterrorism Joint Task Force
- CVA, U.S.
Navy Attack Aircraft Carrier
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- D, Office of
the Deputy Secretary of State
- DA, David
Aaron
- DAO, Defense
Attaché Office
- DCA, Defense
Cooperation Agreement
- DCI, Director
of Central Intelligence
- DCM, Deputy
Chief of Mission
- DDCI, Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence
- DDN, David D.
Newsom
- DDO, Deputy
Director for Operations, Central Intelligence Agency
- DDSO, Deputy
Director for Special Operations
- Delta, 1st
Special Forces Operational Detachment D, commanded by Colonel
Charlie Beckwith
- Desert
One, designated landing spot for Delta Team and
helicopters inside Iran, U.S. rescue mission
- Desert
Two,designated mountain hideout southeast of Tehran
- DIA,Defense
Intelligence Agency
- DJS,
Director, Joint Staff
- DOE,
Department of Energy
- DOI, date of
information
- DOUBLESTAR, an operational test and evaluation
activity for JTF procurement and training for a second rescue
operation
- DRE, Defense
Research and Engineering
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- E-3, AWACS
aircraft
- Eagle
Claw, code name for the rescue operation,
operational phase
- EC, European
Community
- EC-9, nine
members of the European Community
- EDS,
Electronic Data Systems
- EUCOM,European Command
- Exdis,
Exclusive Distribution
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- F-4, U.S. jet
interceptor and fighter-bomber
- F-5, U.S.
light fighter aircraft
- F-111, U.S.
supersonic tactical attack aircraft
- FBI, Federal
Bureau of Investigation
- FBIS,
Foreign Broadcast Information Service
- FCO, U.K.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Fedayeen
al-Khalq, secular Marxist group
- FI, Foreign
Intelligence
- FLAG, Family
Liaison Action Group
- FMS, Foreign
Military Sales
- FOI, Freedom
of Information
- FRG, Federal
Republic of Germany
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- G (GH),
Ghotbzadeh
- G-3, rifle
produced in Iran under license from Heckler and Koch
- GA, General
Assembly
- GDP, Gross
Domestic Product
- GOI,
Government of Iran
- GOP,
Government of Pakistan; Government of Panama
- GS, Gary
Sick
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- H, Bureau of
Congressional Relations, Department of State
- HB, Honey
Badger; Harold Brown
- helo(s),
helicopters
- HUMINT,
human intelligence
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- ICA,
International Communication Agency
- ICJ,
International Court of Justice
- ICRC,
International Committee of the Red Cross
- IEA,
International Energy Agency
- IEEPA,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act
- INR, Bureau
of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
- INS,
Immigration and Naturalization Service
- INTELSAT, Global Fixed Satellites and
Telecommunications Services; International Telecommunications
Satellite Organization
- IO/UNP,
Office of UN Political Affairs, Bureau of International Organization
Affairs, Department of State
- IRG, Islamic
Revolutionary Guard
- IRP, Islamic
Republican Party
- IWG, Iran
Working Group, Department of State
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- J-2, Joint
Staff Intelligence Division
- J-3, Joint
Staff Operations Division
- J-3/DDSO,
Joint Staff Operations Division/Deputy Director for Special
Operations
- J-5,Joint
Staff Plans Directorate
- J, JC, Jimmy
Carter
- JCS, Joint
Chiefs of Staff
- JTD, Joint
Task Delta
- JTF, Joint
Task Force
- JW, Jasper
Welch
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- KC-135,
U.S. aerial refueling aircraft
- Komiteh,
self-appointed revolutionary committees that sprang up spontaneously
in most neighborhoods of Tehran
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- L, Office of
the Legal Adviser, Department of State
- LDC, less
developed country
- LOH, Light
Observation Helicopter
- LPH,
Amphibious Assault Ship (helicopter); Landing
Platform/Helicopter
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- MAAG,
Military Assistance Advisory Group
- Majles
(Majlis),Iranian Parliament
- MB, Marshall
Brement
- Mbd, Million
barrels per day
- MC-130,
Combat Talon, U.S. four-engine fixed-wing special operations
military aircraft
- MD, Military
District
- MEDEVAC,
medical evacuation
- MFA, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
- Mujahidin, Islamic guerrilla fighters; person who
wages jihad
- Mujahiddin
al-Khalq, People’s Mujahiddin of Iran, Islamic
Marxist anti-Shah group founded in 1960s
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- NCA, National
Command Authority
- NE, Near
East
- NEA, Bureau
of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- NEA/IRN,
Office of Iranian Affairs (Iran Desk), Bureau of Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs, Department of State
- NEA/IWG,
Iran Working Group, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Department of State
- NESA, Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency
- NFAC,
National Foreign Assessment Center, Central Intelligence
Agency
- NIOC,
National Iranian Oil Company
- NM, nautical
miles
- Noforn,
Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals
- NSA, National
Security Agency
- NSC, National
Security Council
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- OECD,
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- OER, Office
of Economic Research, Central Intelligence Agency
- OJCS, Office
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- OPEC,
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- Oplan,
operation plan
- OPSDEPS,
Service Operations Deputies
- OPSEC,
Operational Security
- OSD, Office
of the Secretary of Defense
- Otter, U.S.
low-level research airplane
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- P, Office of
the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; President
- PACOM, U.S.
Pacific Command
- Pasdaran, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
- PD,
Presidential Directive
- PDB,
President’s Daily Brief
- PFLP,
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
- PLO,
Palestine Liberation Organization
- PN, Panama,
Panamanian
- PNG, persona
non grata
- PRC, Policy
Review Committee
- PRM,Presidential Review Memorandum
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- RDF, Rapid
Deployment Force
- RDJTF,
Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force
- REDCOM,
U.S. Readiness Command
- RG, Record
Group
- RH-53, U.S.
Navy (Marine Corps) Sea Stallion Helicopter
- Rice
Bowl, code name of the rescue operation in its
planning stages
- RSO, Regional
Security Office(r)
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- S, Office of
the Secretary of State; Secret
- SALT,
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
- SAMA, Saudi
Arabian Monetary Agency
- SAR, search
and rescue
- SASC, Senate
Armed Services Committee
- SATCOM,
Satellite Communications
- SAVAK,
Farsi language acronym for Iranian National Security and Information
Organization (Sazman-i Ittili’at va Amniyat-i
Kishvar)
- SAVAMA,
Farsi language acronym for Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and
National Security (Sazman-E Ettela’at Va Amniat-E
Melli-E Iran); replaced SAVAK
- SCC, Special
Coordinating Committee
- SDR, Special
Drawing Rights, International Monetary Fund
- SEAL,
Sea/Air/Land Force, U.S. Navy
- SecGen,
Secretary General
- Secto,
series indicator for telegrams sent from the Secretary of
State
- SFRC, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
- SOD, J-3
Special Operations Division, Joint Staff
- SOG, Special
Operations Group (Central Intelligence Agency)
- SNOWBIRD, Department of Defense planning for a
second rescue operation
- S/P, Policy
Planning Staff, Department of State
- SR-71,
Blackbird, U.S. reconnaissance aircraft
- S/S, Executive
Secretariat, Department of State
- Stadis,
State Department distribution only
- SY, Office of
Security, Bureau of Administration, Department of State
- SYG,
Secretary General
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- T,
Tabatabai
- Tabas,
Iranian name for Desert One
- TACAIR,
tactical air
- TASS,
official Soviet news agency
- TS, Top
Secret
- Tudeh,
Iranian Peoples (Communist) Party
- Twin
Otter, codename for reconnaissance flights into Iran
to locate what would become Desert One
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- U-2, U.S.
high-altitude reconnaissance airplane
- UAE, United
Arab Emirates
- UN, United
Nations
- UNGA, United
Nations General Assembly
- UNSC, United
Nations Security Council
- UNSYG,
United Nations Secretary General
- USG, United
States Government
- USNATO,
United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
- USSR, Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics
- USUN, United
States Mission to the United Nations
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- V, Hector
Villalon
- V&B,
Villalon and Bourguet
- VHF, Very
High Frequency
- VOA, Voice of
America
- VP, Vice
President
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- Z, Zulu time,
Greenwich Mean Time
- ZB, Zbigniew
Brzezinski