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.

• AA, anti-aircraft
• ADCOM, Advance Command and Liaison Group in Korea (US)
• AFP, Agence France Presse
• Alusna, U.S. Naval Attaché
• AMIK, American Mission in Korea
• AP, Associated Press
• ARA, Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, Department of State
• ASCOM, Army Service Command
• AT, antitank
• avgas, aviation gasoline
• BCOF, British Commonwealth Occupation Force (Japan)
• BOAC, Bristish Overseas Airways Corporation
• Bo An Dae, North Korean Border Constabulary
• CA, Office of Chinese Affairs, Department of State
• CCF, Chinese Communist Forces
• CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
• CIC, Counter Intelligence Corps
• CINCFE, Commander in Chief, Far East
• CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific
• CINCPACFLT, Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet
• CINCUNC, Commander in Chief, United Nations Command
• cirtel, circular telegram
• CKS, Chiang Kai-shek
• CNAC, China National Aviation Corporation
• ConGen, Consulate General
• CP, command post
• CPG, Central People’s Government (of the People’s Republic of China)
• C/S, Chief of Staff
• CSA, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
• CVE, escort aircraft carrier
• CWO, Chief Watch Officer
• DA, Department of the Army
• Delga, series indicator for telegrams from the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. General Assembly
• Depcirtel, Department of State circular telegram
• Dept, Department of State
• DeptAr, Department of the Army
• DNP, Democratic National Party (South Korea)
• DTG, dating
• ECA, Economic Cooperation Administration
• ECA/W, Economic Cooperation Administration, Washington
• ECOSOC, United Nations Economic and Social Council
• EDT, Eastern Daylight Time
• Embtel, Embassy’s telegram
• ESC, Joint Korean-American Economic Stabilization Committee
• EST, Eastern Standard Time
• EUR, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
• EUSAK, Eighth U.S. Army in Korea
• FA, Field Army
• FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• FEAF, (U.S.) Far East Air Forces
• FEC, Far East Command
• FECOM, Far East Command
• FM, Foreign Minister
• FMACC, Foreign Military Assistance Coordinating Committee (an interdepartmental body composed of representatives of the Departments of State and Defense and the Economic Cooperation Administration)
• FonMin, Foreign Minister
• FonOff, Foreign Office
• FSO, Foreign Service Officer
• FSR, Foreign Service Reserve Officer
• FYI, for your information
• G, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State (Matthews)
• G–2, intelligence section (U.S. Army)
• G–3, operations and training section (U.S. Army)
• G–4, supply section (U.S. Army)
• Gadel, Series indicator for telegrams to the U.S. Delegation to the U.N. General Assembly
• GARIOA, Government and Relief in Occupied Areas
• GDR, German Democratic Republic
• GHQ, General Headquarters
• Gimo, Generalissimo (Chiang Kai-shek, China)
• GOI, Government of India
• GOP, Government of Pakistan
• HC, High Commissioner
• HICOG, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany
• HMG, His Majesty’s Government
• HoMin, Home Minister
• HQ, Headquarters
• IAC, Intelligence Advisory Committee
• IC, Indochina
• IC, Interim Committee on Korea
• IC, Interim Committee of the U.N. General Assembly
• ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization
• intel, information telegram
• IO, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State
• JAS, Joint Administrative Services
• J.I.C., Joint Intelligence Committee (U.S.–U.K.)
• JIIC, Joint Intelligence Indications Committee
• KA, Korean Army
• KMAG, U.S. Military Advisory Group to the Republic of Korea
• KMT, Kuomintang (Nationalist Party), Republic of China
• KPDR, Korean People’s Democratic Republic
• L/FE, Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
• MA, Military Attaché
• MAAG, Military Assistance Advisory Group
• MATS, Military Air Transport Service
• MCC, Military Control Commission
• MDAA, Mutual Defense Assistance Act
• MDAP, Mutual Defense Assistance Program
• ME, Middle East
• MEA, Ministry of External Affairs
• MG, machine gun
• Mistel, Mission’s telegram
• MSC, Military Staff Committee (United Nations)
• NA, National Assembly (Republic of Korea)
• NA, Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, Department of State
• NAT, North Atlantic Treaty
• NCNA, New China News Agency
• NE, Near East
• NEA, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State
• NGO, non-governmental organization
• niact, communications indicator requiring attention by the recipient at any hour of the day or night
• NME, National Military Establishment
• nr, number
• N.S.C., National Security Council
• NYT, New York Times
• OAFE, Office for Occupied Areas, Far East, Department of the Army
• OCSA, Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
• OIR, Office of Intelligence Research, Department of State
• OPI, Office of Public Information (Republic of Korea)
• P, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Edward W. Barrett
• PC, Patrol Vessel, Submarine Chaser
• PIO, Public Information Officer
• PLA, People’s Liberation Army (of the People’s Republic of China)
• PM, Prime Minister
• POC, Peace Observation Commission
• POL, Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants
• POLAD, U.S. Political Adviser
• PrinSec, Principal Secretary, U.N. Commission on Korea
• PTI, Press Trust of India-Reuters
• R, Office of the Special Assistant for Intelligence, Department of State
• RCT, regimental combat team
• RFC, Reconstruction Finance Corporation
• ROK, Republic of Korea
• S/AE, Office of the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy Affairs
• SA/M, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Press Relations, Michael J. McDermott
• SANA, State, Army, Navy, Air Force
• SCAP, Supreme Commander, Allied Powers, Japan
• SEA, Southeast Asia
• Secto, series indicator for messages from the Secretary of State when he is absent from the Department
• Secy, Secretary of State
• SGS, Secretary of the General Staff
• SIGO, Signal Officer
• SITREP, situation report
• SKLP, South Korea Labor Party
• S/MDA, Mutual Defense Assistance Program, Department of State
• SOA, Office of South Asian Affairs, Department of State
• S/P, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
• Telcan, indicator of telegrams to the branch of the American Embassy in China at Canton (Use of the indicator was continued after the closing of the Embassy in Canton in 1949)
• T.O., Travel Orders
• Tosec, series indicator for messages to the Secretary of State when he is absent from the Department
• UNA, Bureau of United Nations Affairs, Department of State
• UNCOK, United Nations Commission on Korea
• UNCURK, United Nations Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea
• UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• UNGA, United Nations General Assembly
• UNICEF, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
• UNKRA, United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency
• UNRRA, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
• UNSCOB, United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans
• UP, United Press
• urad, your radio message
• urtel, your telegram
• USAFIK, U.S. Army Forces in Korea
• USALO, U.S. Army Liaison Office
• USAMGIK, United States Army Military Government in Korea
• USFEAF, U.S. Far East Air Forces
• USIE, U.S. (International) Information and Educational Exchange Program
• USIS, United States Information Service
• USUN, U.S. Mission at the United Nations
• VOA, Voice of America
• WARX, Military Communications indicator
• WCPP, World Congress of Partisans of Peace
• WE, Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State
• WEEKA, Weekly Analysis
• WESTPAC, Western Pacific
• WRI, Weekly Report on Intelligence
• YMS, yard mine sweeper
• Z, Indicator for Greenwich Mean Time
• ZI, Zone of the Interior