List of Abbreviations and Symbols

Editor’s Note.—This list does not include standard abbreviations in common usage; unusual abbreviations of rare occurrence which are clarified at appropriate points; and those abbreviations and contractions which, although uncommon, are understandable from the context.

  • A–A, Assistant Secretary of State: Acheson
  • A–A, Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs: Armour
  • A–Br, Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs: Braden
  • ABWEHR, Foreign Intelligence Service of the High Command of the German Armed Forces
  • ACEDE, Administrative Commission for Economic Defense (in Brazil)
  • ActSecy, Acting Secretary
  • AD, Acción Democrática (Democratic Action Party in Venezuela)
  • AFTOSA, Commission, Mexican-United States Commission for the Eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease
  • Agri, Dept. of Agriculture
  • A–H, Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas: Hilldring
  • a.i., ad interim
  • Amb, Ambassador
  • ammo, ammunition
  • AmReps, American Republics
  • AP, Associated Press
  • ARA, Office of American Republic Affairs
  • Arg, Argentina
  • AT, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Thorpe
  • AT–6, transport plane
  • AT–11, light transport plane
  • AV, Aviation Division
  • AWS, Air Warning Station
  • B, Balboas
  • B–17, Flying Fortress
  • B–25, horizontal bomber
  • BA, Buenos Aires
  • BA, Division of Brazilian Affairs, Department of State
  • BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation
  • BC, Division of British Commonwealth Affairs
  • BCB, Banco de Credito da Borracha
  • BDC, Bolivian Development Corporation
  • BDC, British Disposals Commission
  • Bol, Bolivia
  • Braz, Brazil
  • Brit, British
  • C–47, transport plane
  • CAA, Civil Aeronautics Administration
  • CAB, Civil Aeronautics Board, Dept. of Commerce
  • CBF, Corporatión Boliviano Fomento
  • CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation
  • CDC, Caribbean Defense Command
  • Chil, Chilean
  • ChilGov, Chilean Government
  • Cia, compañia
  • C.i.f., Commission, Insurance, Freight
  • CIO, Congress of Industrial Organizations
  • CMA, Mexican air carrier (Compañia Mexicana de Aviación)
  • Col, Colombia
  • ComGenCarib, Commanding General, Caribbean Defense Command
  • Conf, Conference
  • conf, confidential
  • Cong, Congress
  • COPEI, Comite de Organizatión Politica Electoral Independiente of Venezuela
  • Cos, companies
  • CP, Division of Commercial Policy
  • CPA, Division of Central America and Panama Affairs
  • CPD, Committee for Political Defense
  • CPH, Communist Party of Haiti
  • Cr, cruzeiros
  • CRB, Division of Caribbean Affairs
  • CSGID, CSAF, US War Department, transmission code symbols
  • CTC, Confederación de Trabajadores de Colombia
  • CTCh, Confederación de Trabajadores de Chile
  • DE, destroyer escort
  • DelSec, Delegation Secretariat
  • Depcirins, Department circular instruction
  • Depcirtel, Department circular telegram
  • Depgam, Department Airgram
  • Deptel, Department telegram
  • Des, despatch
  • DNC, National Coffee Department of Brazil
  • ECOSOC, Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
  • ED, Division of Investment and Economic Development
  • Emb, Embassy
  • Embdesp, Embassy despatch
  • Embtel, Embassy telegram
  • EO, Executive Order
  • ERP, European Recovery Program
  • ES, Division of Economic Security
  • EUR, Office of European Affairs
  • Eximbank, Export-Import Bank of Washington
  • FAMA, Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina (Argentine Mercantile Air Fleet, joint governmental and private company)
  • FAO, Food and Agricultural Organization
  • fas, free along side ship
  • FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • FBO, Division of Foreign Buildings Operations
  • FBPC, Foreign Bondholders Protective Council
  • FE, Office of Far Eastern Affairs
  • FLC, Foreign Liquidation Commissioner
  • Fld Comm, Field Commissioner, Foreign Liquidation Commissioner’s Office
  • FN, Division of Financial Affairs
  • FonMin, Foreign Minister
  • FonOff, Foreign Office
  • ForOffs, Foreign Offices
  • FPL, Guatemalan political party (Frente Popular Libertador)
  • FRITO, From International Trade Organization
  • GAO, General Accounting Office, United States Government
  • GA, Division of German and Austrian Economic Affairs
  • GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • GA UN, General Assembly, United Nations
  • Gov Bd PAU, Governing Board of the Pan American Union
  • HQ, Headquarters
  • IA, Division of Special Inter-American Affairs
  • IARA, Inter-Allied Reparation Agency
  • ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization
  • IEF, see IEFC
  • IEFC, Internal Emergency Food Council
  • IIAA, Institute of Inter-American Affairs
  • ILO, International Labor Office
  • info, information
  • IR, International Resources Division
  • IS, Division of International Security Affairs
  • ITO, International Trade Organization, United Nations
  • I T & T, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
  • JBUSDC, Joint Brazil-US Defense Commission
  • JBUSMC, Joint Brazil-US Military Commission
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • LA, Latin America
  • LAB, Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano
  • LAMSA, Mexican air carrier (Lineas Aéreas Mexicanas)
  • LCI, landing craft; infantry
  • LCT, landing craft; tank
  • LCVP, landing craft; vehicles, personnel
  • Le, Legal Adviser
  • LL, Lend Lease
  • LP, Division of Lend Lease and Surplus War Property Affairs
  • LST, landing ship; tank
  • LT, long ton
  • MA, Division of Mexican Affairs
  • Marit Comm, Maritime Commission
  • MD, Munitions Division
  • Mex, Inter-American Conference at Mexico City, 1945
  • Min, Ministry
  • mitel, my telegram
  • ML, Naval vessel; launch
  • MOS, Ministry of Supply of the United Kingdom
  • mytel, my telegram
  • mygam, my airgram
  • NAC, National Advisory Council
  • NEA, Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs
  • NSDAP, National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei
  • NWC, Division of North and West Coast Affairs
  • OA, Division of International Organization Affairs
  • OA or PBY, Navy patrol-bomber
  • OFD, Office of Financial and Development Policy
  • OFLC, Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner
  • OIT, Office of International Trade
  • OMA, Office of Mutual Aid of Belgium
  • ONI, Office of Naval Intelligence
  • OPA, Office of Price Administration
  • ourtel, our telegram
  • P–38, pursuit plane
  • PAA, Pan American Airways
  • Panagra, Pan American Grace Airways
  • Pan Am, Pan American
  • PanAir, Pan American Airways
  • Par, Paraguayan, Paraguay
  • PAR, Guatemalan political party (Partido Acción Revolucionaria)
  • Para, Paraguay
  • Parag, Paraguay
  • PAU, Pan American Union
  • PCA, Policy Committee on Arms and Armaments
  • PED, Petroleum Division
  • PEMEX, Mexican Government agency responsible for management of the Mexican petroleum industry (Petroleos Mexicanos)
  • PICAO, Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization
  • PR, Public Resolution
  • PRA, Public Roads Administration, Federal Works Agency
  • Pres, President
  • PRN, National Republican Party (Costa Rica)
  • PSP, Popular Socialist Party (Haiti)
  • PT, trainer plane
  • PT–, motor torpedo boat
  • PUN, National Union Party (Costa Rica)
  • RDC, Rubber Development Corporation
  • reDeptel, regarding Department telegram
  • reEmbdesp, regarding Embassy despatch
  • reEmbgram, regarding Embassy airgram
  • reEmbtel, regarding Embassy telegram
  • refEmtel, reference, Embassy telegram
  • remytel, regarding my telegram
  • res, resolution
  • re tel, regarding telegram
  • reurlet, regarding your letter
  • reurtel, regarding your telegram
  • RFC, Reconstruction Finance Corporation
  • RPA, Division of River Plate Affairs
  • SA, South America
  • SD, Shipping Division of the Department of State
  • SD, Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service of the National Socialist Elite Guard in Germany)
  • SHADA, Haitian-American Society for Agricultural Development (Société Haitiano-Américaine de Développement Agricole)
  • SPA, Office of Special Political Affairs
  • SOP, Standard Operating Procedure
  • S/S–PR, Protocol Staff
  • SWNCC, State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee
  • TACA, Central American Air Transport Company (Transportes Aéreos Centroamericanos, S.A.)
  • U, Under Secretary of State
  • UE, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • UK, United Kingdom
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
  • UP, United Press
  • ur, your
  • URD, Union Republicana Democratica of Venezuela
  • urinfo, your information
  • urtel, your telegram
  • USDA, United States Department of Agriculture
  • USDel, United States Delegation
  • U.S.S.R., Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  • V–E Day, Allied victory in Europe
  • Ven, Venezuela
  • YNG, gate vessel
  • YPF, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscale of Argentina
  • YPFB, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscoles Bolivianos (Bolivian Petroleum Company, a government monopoly)