ABM antiballistic missile
ACDA Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
ACIS Arms Control Intelligence Staff
AEC Atomic Energy Commission
AFIO Association of Former Intelligence Officers
AFIWC Air Force Information Warfare Center
AIC American Intelligence Command
AINTA Army Intelligence Agency
APNSA assistant to the president for national security affairs
ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency
ASA Army Security Agency
ASAS All Source Analysis System
AVG American Volunteer Group
BOE Board of Estimates
BND Bundesnachrichttendienst
BNDD Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
BNL Banca Nazionale del Lavorno
CAPG Covert Action Planning Group
CARG Covert Action Review Group
CAT Civil Air Transport
CCB Community Counterterrorism Board
CCP Consolidated Cryptologic Program
CFE Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Cheka All Russian Extraordinary Commission for
Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage CI counterintelligence
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIC Counterintelligence Center
CIC Counter Intelligence Corps
CIG Central Intelligence Group
CIO Central Imagery Office
CIPA Classified Information Procedures Act
CMA Current Management Account
CMS Community Management Staff
CNC DCI Crime and Narcotics Center
COI coordinator of information
COMINT communications intelligence
COMIREX Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation
COMOR Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance
COMSEC communications security
COS chief of station
CSA Confederate States of America
CSI Center for the Study of Intelligence
CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
CTC Counterterrorism Center
DARO Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DCI director of central intelligence
DCID director of central intelligence directive
DCP Defense Cryptologic Program
DDCI deputy director of central intelligence
DDO deputy director of operations
DDP deputy director for plans
DDPO Defense Dissemination Program Office
DEA Drug Enforcement Administration
DEC DCI Environmental Center
DGIAP Defense General Intelligence and Program
DH Defense HUMINT Service
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DI Directorate of Intelligence
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
DIC Defense Intelligence College
DIAMP Defense Imagery and Mapping Program
DIO defense intelligence officer
DIRINT director of intelligence (Marine Corps)
DIS Defense Investigative Service
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DMA |
Defense Mapping Agency |
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DNI |
Director of national intelligence |
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DO |
Directorate of Operations |
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DOD |
Department of Defense |
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DOE |
Department of Energy |
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DP |
Directorate of Plans |
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DS |
Bureau of Diplomatic Security |
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DSS |
Defense Security Service |
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DSS |
Diplomatic Security Service |
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DS&T |
Directorate of Science and Technology |
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ELINT |
Electronic intelligence |
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EO |
Executive order |
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EPIC |
El Paso Intelligence Center |
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ERTS |
Earth Resources Technology Satellite |
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EXDIR/ICA |
Executive director for intelligence community affairs |
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EXCOM |
Executive committee |
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FAA |
Federal Aviation Administration |
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FARA |
Foreign Agents Registration Act |
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FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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FBIS |
Foreign Broadcast Information Service |
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FCO |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
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FinCEN |
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network |
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FISA |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act |
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FOIA |
Freedom of Information Act |
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FSB |
Federal Security Service (Russian Federation) |
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FSLN |
Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional |
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GAO |
Government Accounting Office |
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GCHQ |
Government Communications Headquarters |
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GDIP |
General Defense Intelligence Program |
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GEOINT |
Geospatial intelligence |
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GRU |
Glavnoe Razvedyvatel’noe Upravlenie (Chief Intelligence Directorate) |
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HPSCI |
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
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HSPD |
Homeland security presidential directive |
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HUAC |
House Un-American Activities Committee |
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HUMINT |
Human intelligence |
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IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
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IC |
Intelligence community |
ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile
ICJ International Court of Justice
ICS Intelligence Community Staff
IIC Interdepartemental Intelligence Committee
IICT Interagency Intelligence Committee on Terrorism
IMINT imagery intelligence
INF intermediate nuclear force
INR Bureau of Intelligence and Research
INS Immigration and Naturalization Service
INSCOM Army Intelligence and Security Command
IOB Intelligence Oversight Board
IRA intelligence-related activities
IRS Internal Revenue Service
ISR Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
(Air Force)
IWG interagency working groups
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
JIC Joint Intelligence Committee
JMIC Joint Military Intelligence College
JMIP Joint Military Intelligence Program
KGB Committee on State Security
KH Keyhole
LNTBT Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
MASINT Measurement and Signature Intelligence
MCIA Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
MIB Military Intelligence Branch
MID Military Intelligence Division
MIS Military Intelligence Service
MSSI Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence
NAIC National Air Intelligence Center
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCC National Counterterrorism Center
NCIX National Counterintelligence Executive
NDIC National Drug Intelligence Center
NFAC National Foreign Assessment Center
NFIB National Foreign Intelligence Board
NFIP National Foreign Intelligence Program
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NFOSG |
Naval Field Operations Support Group |
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NGA |
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency |
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NIA |
National Intelligence Authority |
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NIC |
National Intelligence Council |
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NICB |
National Intelligence Collection Board |
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NID |
National intelligence daily |
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NIE |
National intelligence estimate |
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NIMA |
National Imagery and Mapping Agency |
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NIO |
National intelligence officer |
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NIPB |
National Intelligence Production Board |
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NIPC |
National Infrastructure Protection Center |
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NKVD |
People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs |
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NMIC |
Navy’s National Maritime Intelligence Center |
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NPC |
DCI Nonproliferation Center |
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NPIC |
National Photographic Interpretation Center |
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NPT |
Nonproliferation Treaty |
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NRO |
National Reconnaissance Office |
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NROC |
National Resettlement Operations Center |
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NSA |
National Security Agency |
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NSAM |
National security action memorandum |
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NSC |
National Security Council |
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NSCD |
National Security Council directive |
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NSC/DC |
National Security Council’s Deputies Committee |
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NSD |
National security directive |
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NSDD |
National security decision directive |
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NSDM |
National security decision memorandum |
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NSEP |
National Security Education Program |
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NSPD |
National security presidential directive |
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NSRs |
National security reviews |
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NST |
Nuclear and Space Arms Talks |
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NSTL |
National Security Threat List |
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NTIS |
National Technical Information Service |
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OMB |
Office of Management and Budget |
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ONE |
Office of National Estimates |
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ONI |
Office of Naval Intelligence |
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OPR |
Office of Political Research |
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OPC |
Office of Policy Coordination |
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OPEC |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting States |
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ORA |
Office of Research and Analysis |
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ORE |
Office of Reports and Estimates |
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OSINT |
Open-source intelligence |
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OSO |
Office of Special Operations |
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OSS |
Office of Strategic Services |
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PD |
Presidential directive |
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PDB |
President’s daily brief |
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PDD |
Presidential decision directive |
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PFIAB |
President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board |
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PHOTINT |
Photographic intelligence |
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PHSAC |
President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council |
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PICL |
President’s intelligence check list |
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PRC |
People’s Republic of China |
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PRD |
Presidential review directive |
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PRM |
Presidential review memoranda |
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PSYWAR |
Psychological warfare |
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RFE |
Radio Free Europe |
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RL |
Radio Liberty |
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SALT |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
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SAR |
Synthetic aperture radar |
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SASC |
Senate Armed Services Committee |
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SAT |
Southern Air Transport |
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SCAP |
Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers |
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SCIF |
Special Compartmented Intelligence Facility |
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SDI |
Strategic Defense Initiative |
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SDIO |
Strategic Defense Initiative Office |
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SEIB |
Senior executive intelligence brief |
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SFRC |
Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
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SIG |
Senior Interdepartmental Group |
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SIGINT |
Signals intelligence |
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SIS |
Special Intelligence Service |
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SLBM |
Submarine-launched ballistic missile |
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SNIE |
Special national intelligence estimate |
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SOE |
Special Operations Executive |
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SSCI |
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence |
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START |
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
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SVRR |
Sluzhba Vneshney Rasvedki Rossii |
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TELINT |
Telemetry intelligence |
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TIARA |
Tactical intelligence and related activities |
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TSA |
Transportation Security Administration |
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TTAC |
Technology Transfer Assessment Center |
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TTIC |
Terrorism Threat Integration Center |
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UAV |
Unmanned aerial vehicle |
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UN |
United Nations |
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USAINTA |
U. S. Army Intelligence Agency |
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USAINTC |
U. S. Army Intelligence Command |
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USAISA |
U. S. Army Intelligence Support Activity |
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USASE |
U. S. Army Security Agency |
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USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
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USIA |
United States Information Agency |
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USIB |
United States Intelligence Board |
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USICA |
United States International Communications Agency |
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USIS |
United States Information Service |
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USSOCOM |
U. S. Special Operations Command |
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USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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VOA |
Voice of America |
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WMD |
Weapons of mass destruction |
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