SUBJECT: INFORMATION ON ACRONYMS - 1986 FILE: UFO2203
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INFORMATION ON ACRONYMS -1986
A2 - Air Force Intelligence
AAC - Alasken Air Command
AAF - Army Air Force
ACOM - Asian Communist - One of NSA's 4 major
operational divisions
ADC - Aerospace Defense Command
ADLA - Assistant Director for legal & Legislative
Affairs - (NSA)
ADPL - Assistant Director for Policy & Liaisons -
(NSA)
ADPR - Assistant Director for Plans / Resources -
(NSA)
ADT - Assistant Director for Training
ADVA - Advance Soviet - One of 4 major operational
divisions of NSA's production organizations:
Combined with GENS into a group
AEC - Atomic Energy Commission
AFB - Air Force Base
AFESC - Air Force Electronic Security Command
AFGWC - Air Force Global Weather Control
AFIS - Air force Intelligence Service
AFOC - Air Force Operations Center
AFR - Air Force Regulation
AFSA - Armed Forces Security Agency
AFSAC - Armed Forces Security Council
AFSS - Air Force Security Service
ALF - Alien Life Form
ALLO - All Others - One of the 4 Major Operational
Divisions of NSA's Production Organization-
Now known as G Group
ALP - Advanced Language Program
AMB - Ambassador
ANCIB - Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Board
ANCICC - Army-Navy Communications Intelligence
Coordinating Committee
ANG - Air National Guard
APRO - Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
ARC - Ad Hoc Requirements
ARDF - Airborne Radio Directional Finding
ARFCOS - Armed Forces Courier service
ARPA - Advance Research Projects Agency
ASA - Army Security Agency
ASD - Applied Science Division
ASEAN - Association of East Asian Nations
AST - Atlantic Standard Time
AWACS - Airborne Warning and Control System
ATIC - Air Technical Intelligence Center (Air Force)
UFORC - UFO Reporting Center
BMW - Bomb Wing
UFOIS - UFO Information Service
CAUS - Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
CFS - Canadian Forces Station
CGS - Coast Guard Station
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
CIC - Counter Intelligence Corps
CINC - Commander in Charge
CUFOS - Center for UFO Studies
COMINT - Communication Intelligence (NSA)
CP - Command Post
CSC - Central Security Control (USAF)
DATT - Defense Attache (US EMBASSY)
DCD - Domestic Collection Division (CIA)
DCI - Director of Central Intelligence
DCSOPS - Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and
Plans (USAF)
DDO - Deputy Director for Operations (USAF)
DIA - Defense Intelligence Agency
DMZ - Demilitarized Zone (VIETNAM)
DO - Duty Officer
DREAM - - Unclassified nickname for a Military Research area
LAND in South-Central Nevada
FAA - Federal Aviation Agency
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
FISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
FOIA - Freedom of Information Act
G2 - Army Intelligence
GAO - Government Accounting Office
GCCS - Government Code and Crypto School
GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters
GCI - Ground Control Intercept
GENS - General Soviet - One of the 4 Major
Operational Divisions of NSA's Production
Organizations Combined With ADVA into
(A Group)
GG - Government Grade - Used in place of GS1 to
GS18 - ONLY FOR GOV'T EMPLOYEES SUCH AS NSA
EMPLOYEES
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
GSW - Ground Saucer Watch
HAWC - High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center
(AREA-51)
HFDF - High Frequency Direction Finder
HUAC - House of Unamerican Activities Committee
HUMINT - Human Intelligence
ICI - Inter-agency Committee on Intelligence
IDA-CRD - Institute for Defense Analysis -
Communications Research Division
IDP - Intercept Deployment Plan
IEC - Intelligence Evaluation Committee
INSCOM - U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command
INTELPOST- international Electronic Post
INTELSAT- International Telecommunications Satellite
INYSA - Assistant Chief of Staff Intelligence, USAF,
Science and Technology Branch, Directorate
of Response Management
INZ - Aerospace Intelligence Division (AFIS)
INZA - Editing, Debriefing, and Continuity Branch
(AFIS)
IPB - Intercept Priorities Board
JACL - Judge Advocate General, Litigation Division
JANAP - Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication
JCS - Joint Chief of Staffs
JOSAF - Joint Operations Support Activity - Frankfurt
JRC - Joint Reconnaissance Center
JSPC - Joint Sobe Processing Center
JTLS - Joint Technical Language Service
KGB - Komitet Gosudrstvennoy Bezopasnosti
(Committee for State Security) USSR
KISR - Kuwatt Institute for Scientific Research
KM - Kilometer
LASP - Low Altitude Surveillance Platform
LCF - Launch Control Facility
LOB - Raymond E. Linn Operations Building
LPMEDLEY- CIA Cryptonym For an Operation in Support of
the NSA
LRTS - Long Range Technical Support
MAJI - Majestic Agency for Joint Intelligence
MAJIC - MAJIC is the Highest Security Classification
in the Nation
MI-8 - Military Intelligence Section 8 - Codes and
Ciphers Search
MIB'S - Men in Black
MID - Military Intelligence Division
M5 - NSA Office of Security
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPRO - Machine Processing Section of NSA's Production
Organization
MUFON - Mutual UFO Network
NAVASPASUR- Naval Space Surveillance Systems
NCOC - National Combat Operations Center
NEPA - Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft
NICAP - National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena
NM - Nautical Mile
NMCC - National Military Command Center
NORAD - North American Aerospace Defense Command
NPIC - National Photographic Interpretation Center
NRL - Naval Research Laboratory
NSA - National Security Agency
NSF - National Science Foundation
OAM - Operation Animal Mutilation
ONI - Office of Naval Intelligence
OSI - Office of Special Investigations (USAF)
OSS - Office of Strategic Services
PSAPR - Puget Sound Aerial Phenomena Research INC.
RAPCOM - Radar Approach Communications
RAPCON - Radar Approach Control
RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
SA - Special Agent
SAC - Strategic Air Command
SAC/HO - Strategic Air Command Office of History
SAFIO - Secretary of the Air Force Office of
Information
SAO - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
SAT - Security Alert Team
SBI - Special Background Investigation
UFO/IAC - Unidentified Flying Object/Identified Alien Craft
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