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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