Office of the Historian

List of Abbreviations

  • ACS, Army Chief of Staff
  • AEC, Atomic Energy Commission
  • AF, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State
  • AFCIN, Air Force Chief of Intelligence
  • ALFA, Air-Land Forces Agency
  • ALRI, Indonesian Navy
  • ALUSNA, American Legation, U.S. Naval Attaché
  • ANZAM, Australia, New Zealand, Malaya
  • ANZUS, Australia, New Zealand, United States
  • ARMA, US. Army Attaché
  • ASCI, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of the Army
  • ASTARMA, Assistant U.S. Army Attaché
  • AURI, Angkatan Udara Republic Indonesia (Indonesian Air Force)
  • BNA, Office of British and North European Affairs, Department of State
  • CALTEX, California Texas Oil Company
  • ChiCom, Chinese Communist
  • ChiNat, Chinese Nationalist
  • CHMILTAG, Chief, Military Technical Advisory Group
  • CIA, Central Intelligence Agency
  • CINCPAC, Commander in Chief of the Pacific
  • CINCPACFLT, CINCPAC Fleet
  • CNO, Chief of Naval Operations
  • Codel, Congressional delegation
  • COMNAPHIL, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in the Philippines
  • CP, Communist Party
  • CPR, Chinese People’s Republic
  • CX, telegraphic indicator for ARMAs
  • DCM, Deputy Chief of Mission
  • DDE, antisubmarine destroyer
  • DEPTAR, Department of the Army
  • DI, Darul Islam (House of Islam),Indonesian political movement
  • DLF, Development Loan Fund
  • DNI, Director, Naval Intelligence
  • DWI, Dutch West Indies
  • EUR, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State
  • EXIM, Export-Import Bank
  • FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • FE, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • FO, Foreign Office
  • fon, foreign
  • FY, fiscal year
  • G, Bureau of Management, Department of State
  • Garuda, Indonesian government-owned flagship airline
  • GRC, Government of the Republic of China
  • IAC, Intelligence Advisory Committee
  • IBU, Ikatan Buruh Umum (General Workers’ Union, Indonesia)
  • ICA, International Cooperation Administration
  • ICATO, series indicator for telegrams going to the ICA
  • IMG, Information Media Guarantee Agreement
  • INR, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
  • IPKI, Ikatan Pendulung Kemerdekaan Indonesia (Association of Defenders of Indonesian Independence)
  • JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • KLM, airline company of the Netherlands
  • KMT, Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)
  • L, Office of the Legal Advisor, Department of State
  • LCVP, landing craft vehicle/personnel
  • LST, landing ship transport
  • MAAG, Military Advisory Assistance Group
  • MAP, Military Assistance Program
  • Masjumi, Madjelis Sjuro Muslimin Indonesia (Council of the Indonesian Moslem Association)
  • MC, memorandum of conversation
  • MiG, Soviet military fighter aircraft
  • MILREP, military representative
  • MILTAG, military technical advisory group
  • MSA, mutual security assistance
  • MSP, Mutual Security Program
  • MTB, motor torpedo boat
  • MTTS, marine terminal tankage system
  • NAC, North Atlantic Council; National Advisory Council on Monetary and Financial Problems
  • NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • NIE, National Intelligence Estimate
  • NSC, National Security Council
  • NU, Nahdatul Ulama (Association of Orthodox Muslims), Indonesia
  • OASD, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
  • OCB, Operations Control Board
  • PKI, Indonesian Communist Party
  • PL, public law
  • PNI, Partai Nasionalis Indonesia (Indonesian Nationalist Party)
  • POLAD, political advisor
  • Polto, series indicator for telegrams from the U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO
  • PRRI, Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia
  • PSI, Partai Sosialis Indonesia (Indonesian Socialist Party)
  • RA, Office of Regional Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State
  • SEA, Office of Southeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • SEATO, Southeast Asian Treaty Organization
  • Sec, Secretary
  • SNIE, Special National Security Estimate
  • SOBSI, Sentral Organiasi Buruh Seluruh Indonesia (Central Organization of All Indonesian Labor)
  • SPA, Office of Southwest Pacific Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State
  • S/S, Executive Secretariat of the Department of State
  • STANVAC, Standard Vacuum Oil Company
  • TOICA, series indicator for telegrams going to the ICA
  • UK, United Kingdom
  • U/MSC, Office of the Deputy Coordinator of Mutual Security for the Under Secretary of State
  • UN, United Nations
  • UNP, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Bureau of International Organizations Affairs, Department of State
  • UP, United Press International
  • US, United States
  • USA, United States Army
  • USAF, United States Air Force
  • USIA, United States Information Agency
  • USIS, United States Information Service
  • USN, United States Navy
  • USRO, United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Regional Organizations
  • USS, United States ship
  • UST, United States treaty
  • WE, Office of West European Affairs, Department of State
  • W/MSC, Office of the Special Assistant for Mutual Security Coordination, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • WNG, West New Guinea