Terminology

A2

Air Force Intelligence

AAF

Army Air Field

AF

Air Force

ADC

Aerospace Defense Command

ADLA

Assistant Director For Legal And Legislative Affairs (NSA)

ADPL

Assistant Director For Policy And Liaison (NSA)

ADPR

Assistant Director For Plans/Resources (NSA)

ADT

Assistant Director For Training

ADVA

Advanced Soviet-(One of the 4 major operational divisions of the NSA's production organization; 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

AFM

Air Force Manual

AFOC

Air Force Operations Center

AFOSI

Air Force Office Of Special Invetigations (Headquarters - Bolling,

AFB

Washington, D.C.)

AFR

Air Force Regulation

AFSA

Armed Forces Security Agency

AFASC

Armed Forces Security Agency Council

AFSS

Air Force Security Service

ALLO

All Others-(One of the major operational divisions of NSA's production organization now known as G Group)

AMB

Ambassador AMC - Air Materiel Command

ANCIB

Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Board

ANNCICC

Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Board Committee

ANG

Air National Guard

APRA

Advanced Research Projects Agency

AR

Army Regulation

ARC

Ad Hoc Requirements Committee

ARDF

Airborne Radio Direction-Finding

APRO

Aerial Phenomena Research Organization

ATC

Air Traffic Control

ARTC

Air Route Traffic Control ARTCC - Air Route Traffic Control Center

ASA

Army Security Agency

ASD

Applied Science Division (CIA)

AST

Atlantic Standard Time

ATIC

Air Technical Intelligence Center (Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton Ohio

BMW

Ballistic Missile Wing BW - Bomb Wing

CAUS

Citizens Against UFO Secrecy

CFS

Canadian Forces Station

CGS

Coast Guard Station

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

CIC

Counter-Intelligence Corps

CIC

Combat Information Center

CINCINORAD

Commander-in-Chief, NORAD

CINCPAC

Command in Chief, Pacific

CSICOP

dddd

CO

Commanding Officer

COMINT

Communications Intelligence (NSA)

CP

Command Post

CSC

Central Security Control (Air Force)

CZ

Control Zone

CUFOS

Center for UFO Studies

DATT

Defense Attaché (U.S. Embassy)

DCD

Domestic Collections Division (CIA)

DCSOPS

Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans (Air Force)

DDO

Deputy Director for Operations (Air Force)

DIA

Defense Intelligence Agency

DMZ

Demilitarized Zone (Vietnam)

DO

Duty Officer

FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FISA

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

FOIA

Freedom of Information Act

FUFOR

Fund for UFO Research

GCI

Ground Control Intercept

GMT

Greenwich Mean Time

GSW

Ground Saucer Watch

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)

JACL

Judge Advocate General, Litigation Division (Air Force)

JANAP

Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication

JCS

Joint Chiefs of Staff

JTIDS

Joint Tactical Information Distribution System

KISR

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research

KM

Kilometer

LCF

Launch Control Facility (Air Force) LEO - Low Earth Orbit

MUFON

Mutual UFO Network, Inc.

NAVPIC

Naval Photo Interpretation Center

NAVSPASUR

Naval Space Surveillance System

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 (Air Force)

Office of Scientific Investigation (CIA)

PACAF

Pacific Air Forces

RAPCOM

Radar Approach Communications RAPCON - Radar Approach Control

SA

Special Agent

SAC

Special Agent in Charge (FBI)

Strategic Air Command

SAC/HO

Strategic Air Command Office of History

SAFOI

Secretary of the Air Force Office of Information

SAO

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

SAT

Security (or Sabotage?) Alert Team

SBI

Special Background Investigation

SIGINT

Signals Intelligence [NSA](NSA.md)

SIGLEX

Special Interest Group On Lexicography

SIGTRAN

Special Interest Group On Translation

SIGVOICE

Special Interest Group On Voice

SIOP

Single Integrated Operations Plan (U S nuclear war plan)

SIPG

Special Intercept Priorities Group

SIS

Signal Intelligence Service

S/L

Squadron Leader

SOLIS

SIGNET Acronym On Line Intelligence System

SPADATS

Space Detection and Tracking System (NORAD)

SPS

Security Police Squadron

SSA

Signal Security Agency

SSB

Soft Support Building (Air Force)

TCA

Terminal Control Area

TCU

Terminal Control Unit

TIA

Temperature Inversion Analysis

UAP

Unidentified Areal Phenomenon

UGM

Unusual Ground Markings

USAF

United States Air Force

USG

United States Government

W/C

Wing Commander

AD-Ottawa

Air Desk

ASI

Air Speed Indicator

CAF

Canadian Air Force

CANFORCHED

Canadian Forces Headquarters

CANMARCOM

Canadian Maritime Command

CAS

Chief of Air Staff (RCAF)

CCG

Canadian Coast Guard

CERVIS

Communication of Emergency Report of Vital Intelligence Sighting

CFAO

Canadian Forces Air Order

CFB

Canadian Forces Base

CFS

Canadian Forces Station

CGC

Coast Guard Cutter

CNAS

Canadian Naval Air Station

DAI

Department of Air Intelligence (Canada)

DAI

Director of Air Intelligence DAO - Director Air Operations

DATT

Defense Attache (U.S. Embassy)

DCD

Domestic Collections Division (CIA)

DCSOPS

Deputy Chief Of Staff For Operations And Plans (Air Force)

DDO

Deputy Director For Operations (Air Force)

DIA

Directorate of Intelligence Air Force (RCAF)

DMI

Director of Military Intelligence DND - Department of National Defence

DNI

Department of Naval Intelligence DO - Directorate of Operations

DO

Duty Officer

DoT

Department of Transport (now Transport Canada)

DRB

Defence Research Board

DSI

Director of Scientific Intelligence

DS8

Defense Secretariat 8

ELINT

Electronic Intelligence

ELMINT

Electro-Magnetic Intelligence (Code Empire, Code Eva)

F/L

Flight Lieutenant

G2

Army Intelligence

GAO

Government Accounting Office

GC

Group Commander

GCA

Ground Control Approach (using radar)

GCCS

Government Code And Cypher School

GCHQ

Government Communications Headquarters

GCI

Ground Control Intercept

GG

Government Grade-(Instead of using GS1 to GS 18 - only for Govern- ment employees, such as NSA employees)

HFDF

High Frequency Direction Finding

HMCS

Her Majestys Canadian Ship [Canadian Navy]

HUAC

House Un-American Activities Committee

HUMINT

Human Intelligence

ICI

Interagency 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

INTELSTAT

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

IRIS

Infared Intruder System

JAGL

Judge Advocate General, Litigation Division

JANAP

Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication

JCS

Joint Cheifs Of Staff

JIC

Joint Intelligence Committee

JOSAF

Joint Operations Support Activity (Frankfurt, Germany)

JPL

Jet Propulsion Laboratories

JRC

Joint Reconnaissance Center

JSPC

Joint Sobe Processing Center

JTLS

Joint Technical Language Service

LASP

Low Altitute Surveillance Platform

LCF

Launch Control Facility

LOB

Raymond E. Linn Operations Building

LP MEDLEY

CIA Cryptonym (for an operation in support of the NSA)

LRTS

Long Range Technical

MS

NSA Office Of Security

MAJI

Major Agency For Joint Intelligence

MI-8

Military Intelligence Section 8(codes and cyphers search)

MID

Military Intelligence Division

MPRO

Machine Processing Section of NSA's Production

NASA

National Aeronautics And Space Administration

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NAVSPASUR

Naval Space Surveillance System

NCOC

National Combat Operations Center

NEPA

Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft

NM

Nautical Mile

NMCC

Natinal Military Command Center

NORAD

North American Aerospace Defense Command

NPIC

National Photographic Interpretation Center

NRC

National Research Council NRL - Naval Research Laboratory

NRO

National Reconnaissance Office

NSA

National Security Agency (Fort Meade, Maryland)

NSF

National Science Foundation

ONI

Office Of Naval Intelligence

OSI

Office Of Special Investigations (Air Force)

Office Of Special Investigations (CIA)

OSS

Office of Strategic Services

Office Of Space Science

RAF

Royal Air Force Of Great Britain

RAPCOM

Radar Approach Communications

RAPCON

Radar Approach Control

RCAF

Royal Canadian Air Force

RCMP

Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCC - Rescue Coordination Center