GLOSSARY of Intelligence Terminology
Agent – An individual who acts under the
direction of an intelligence agency or security service to obtain, or assist in
obtaining information for intelligence or counter-intelligence purposes.
Agent of Influence – An individual who can be
used to covertly influence foreign officials, opinion molders, organization or
pressure groups in a way that will generally advance objectives, or to
undertake specific action in support of objectives.
Agent Provocateur – An agent employed to stir
up trouble, create chaos and generally make mischief (primarily in the
opposition camp).
Analysis – A stage in the intelligence
processing cycle when collected information is reviewed to identify significant
facts; the information is compared with and collated with other data, and
conclusions, which also incorporates the memory and judgment of the
intelligence analyst.
Asset – Any resource – a person, group,
relationship, instrument, installation or supply at the disposition of an
intelligence agency for use in an operational or support role. The term is
normally applied to a person who is contributing to a clandestine mission, but
is not a fully controlled agent.
Assessment – Part of the intelligence process
whereby an analyst determines the reliability or validity of a piece of
information. An assessment could also be a statement resulting from this
process.
Backstopping – A team for providing appropriate
verification and support of cover arrangements for an agent or asset in
anticipation of inquiries or other actions which might test the credibility of
his or its cover.
Basic Intelligence – Factual, fundamental and
generally permanent information about all aspects of a nation, - physical,
social, economic, political, biographical and cultural, which is used as a base
for intelligence products in support of planning, policy making and military
and covert operations.
Bigot List – A restrictive list of person who
have access to a particular and highly sensitive class of information.
Biographical Leverage – Blackmail
Biological Agent – A micro-organism which
causes disease in humans, plants or animals or causes deterioration of
material.
Biological Operation – Employment of biological
agents to produce casualties in humans or animals, and damage to plants or
material; or a defense against such an attack.
Black – A term use to indicate reliance on
illegal concealment of an activity rather than a cover.
Black Bag Job – Warrant less surreptitious
entry, especially an entry conducted for purposes other than microphone
installation, such as physical search and seizure or photographing documents.
Black List – A counter-intelligence listing of
actual or potential hostile collaborators, sympathizers, intelligence suspects.
Black Propaganda – Propaganda that purports to
emanate from a source other than the true one.
Blown – To blow the cover, expose, often
unintentionally, personnel, installations, or other elements of a clandestine
activity or organization.
Brush Contact – rapid, seemingly accidental contact
between an agent or asset and a case officer or control agent to exchange
material, most often in a crowded public place to confuse surveillance.
Bug – A concealed listening device or
microphone, or other audio surveillance device; also, to install the means for
audio surveillance of a target.
C – The initial denotes the chief or head of
the British Secret Service
Case – An intelligence operation in its
entirety; the term also refers to a record of the development of an
intelligence operation, how it will operate, and the objectives of the
operation.
Case Officer – A staff employee responsible for
handling agents.
Chemical Agents – A chemical compound which,
when disseminated, causes incapacitating, lethal or damaging effects on humans,
animals, plants or materials.
Chemical Operations – Using chemical agents –
excluding riot control, to kill or incapacitate for a significant period.
Chief of Station – Agent assigned to head and
overseas intelligence unit, normally part of an embassy.
Cipher – Any cryptographic system in which
arbitrary symbols or groups of symbols represent units of plain text.
Clandestine Intelligence – Intelligence
information collected by clandestine sources.
Clandestine Operations – Intelligence,
counter-intelligence, or other information collection activities and covert
political, economic, propaganda or paramilitary activities, conducted so as to
assure the secrecy of the operations.
Code – A system of communication in which
arbitrary groups of symbols represent units of plain text.
Code Word – A word which has been assigned a
classification and a classified meaning to safeguard intentions and information
regarding a planned operation.
Collation – The assembly of facts to determine
the relationship among them in order to derive intelligence and facilitate
further processing of intelligence information.
Collection – The acquisition of information by
any means and its delivery to the proper intelligence processing unit for use
in the production of intelligence.
Communications – A method or means of conveying
information from one person or place to another, not including direct
unassisted conversation or correspondence.
COMIT- Communications Intelligence – Technical and
intelligence information derived from communications by someone other than the
intended recipient, not including the press, propaganda or broadcasts.
Company – Nickname for the CIA.
Compartmentation – The practice of establishing
special channels for handling sensitive intelligence information, limited to
individuals with a special need for that information.
Concealment – A provision of protection from
observation only.
Confusion Agent – An individual dispatched by
his sponsor to confound the intelligence or counter-intelligence apparatus of
the opposition, rather than to collect or transmit information.
Control – Physical or psychological pressure
exerted on an agent or group to ensure that the agent or group responds to the
direction of Case Officer, intelligence agency or service.
Control Agent – Case officer responsible for the
actions of an agent or asset.
Counterespionage – Aggressive operations
against another intelligence service to reduce its effectiveness or to detect
and neutralize espionage.
Counterinsurgency – Military, paramilitary,
political, economic, psychological and civic action taken by a government to
defeat subversive insurgency within a country.
Counterspy – An agent put into place where he
can betray or mislead the opposition.
Courier – A messenger responsible for the
secure physical transmission and delivery of documents and material.
Cousins – British SIS nickname for
the CIA.
Cover – A protective guise used by a person,
organization or installation to prevent identification with clandestine
activities and to conceal the true affiliation of personnel and true
sponsorship of activities.
Covert Action – Any clandestine activity
designed to influence governments, events, organizations, or persons, including
political and economic action, propaganda and paramilitary activity.
Covert Operations – Operations planned and
executed against governments, installations, and individuals so as to conceal
the identity of the sponsor or else to permit the sponsor’s plausible denial of
the operation.
They differ from clandestine operations in that emphasis is
placed on concealment of identity of sponsor rather than on concealment of the
operation.
Critical Intelligence – Information of such
urgent importance that it is transmitted at the highest priority to the
President and other decision makers before passing through regular evaluation
channels.
Cryptanalyst – Trained analyst who works at breaking
codes and ciphers by attempting to recover the “key” (specific method) used in
encryption, usually mathematicians who work with super-computers to attack
computer-generated codes.
Cryptanalysis – The breaking of codes and
ciphers into plain text without initial knowledge of the key employed in the
encryption.
Cryptography – The enciphering of plain text so
that it will be unintelligible to an unauthorized recipient.
Current Intelligence – Summaries and analysis
of recent events.
Cut-Out – A person who is used to conceal
contact between members of a clandestine activity or organization.
Dead Drop – Site where agents can leave and exchange
messages with other agents or their control, most often in nooks and crevices
in remote public areas (a hole in the wall) to avoid contact between those
“filing” (inserting material) in the Dead Drop and those “servicing” it (remove
material).
Deception – Measures designed to mislead a
person or entity by manipulating, distorting or falsifying evidence to induce a
reaction.
Decrypt – To convert encrypted text into plain
text.
Deep State - The hidden underworld that underlines the public state..
Defector – A person who for political or other
reasons, has repudiated his country and may be in possession of information of
interest.
Directive – Basically any executive branch
communication which initiates or governs departmental or agency action, conduct
or procedure.
Dirty Tricks – Covert and Clandestine
operations used in U.S. politics.
Discard –
Expendable agent or asset deliberately sacrificed to deflect attention
from other, more important agents or operation.
Disinformation – Deliberately placed
information, often inaccurate, used to counteract or support a covert intelligence
operation.
Dissemination – The distribution of information
or intelligence products (in oral, written or graphic form) to departmental or
agency intelligence consumers.
Double-Agent – A person engaged in clandestine
activity for two or more intelligence or security services who provides
information to one service about the other, or about each service to the other,
who is wittingly or unwittingly manipulated by one service against the other.
Drone - A weaponized remote controlled surveillance plane.
ELINT – Electronic Intelligence
– Technical and intelligence information derived from the collection (or
interception) and processing of electromagnetic radiations (noncommuncations)
emanating from sources such as radar.
Expendable Agent – One that can be used and
given up to the enemy or killed.
Fluttered – To be examined by a polygraph
lie-detector
Front – Legitimate appearing entity created to
provide cover for agents and assets, usually a commercial, corporate or charity
foundation.
Great Game – A person who works in intelligence
is said to be “in the game.”
High Grade Intel – Very important and protected
secrets or records from a targeted nation.
Illegal – Espionage agents sent under false
passports into foreign countries and not associated with the official embassy
operations.
Legal – An agent operating in a foreign country
under diplomatic cover, providing diplomatic immunity in the event of blow
cover or arrest.
Legend – The false biography of an agent to
provide cover.
Letter Box – Place, address or person (Also see: Cut
Out) used as a go-between to receive and pass on messages and instructions.
Measles – A murder carried out so efficiently
that death appears to be accidental or due to natural causes.
MI5 – British Counter-Intelligence Service.
MI6 – British Secret Service, operating mainly
overseas, with HQ at Century House,London.
MI8 – US cryptographic service
established after WWI by Herbert O. Yardley, precursor of the NSA.
MI9 – WWII organization established to set up
escape routes for Allied prisoners of war.
Mole – An agent ordered to infiltrate the
opposition services in order to send back information or an asset inserted into
the political, intelligence or military structure of a target nation with the
specific objective of rising to a key position, at which point the asset is
“switched on” to provide high-grade intelligence.
Music Box – Wireless radio transmitter
Naked – Operating without assistance
Neighbor - Another branch of the same
intelligence service.
One Man Bay of Pigs – A phase
used to describe an incompetent agent who has made a hash of things.
One Time Pad – Cipher device that uses a pad with
sheets of random numbers that are used to encrypt messages once, then
discarded. Since each sheet is readable only to someone on the other end with
the same pad, eh system is theoretically unbreakable.
Orchestra – A network of spies operating
together, unknown to each other, but controlled by the same operator.
Pavement Artist – Surveillance team.
Playback – The technique of using a captured agent’s
radio, computer email or phone to feed misleading information to the agent’s
control.
Plumbing – The work undertaken to prepare for a
major operation.
Propaganda – Any communications supporting
objectives which are designed to influence opinions, emotions, attitudes or
behavior of any group.
Proprietaries – A term used to designate
ostensibly private commercial entities capable of doing business which are
established and controlled by intelligence services to conceal their
affiliations in support of clandestine operations.
Psychological Warfare – The planned use of
propaganda and other actions to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes and
behavior of groups so as to support the achievements of policy objectives.
Reconnaissance – A mission undertaken to obtain
information by observation or other detection methods.
Requirement – A general or specific request for
intelligence information.
Resident Director – Head of the Russian Secret
Service network.
Safe House – Secure place for meetings and
living during operations.
Sanction – Intelligence agency approval for
killing of agents.
Sanitize – The deletion or revision of report
or document so as to prevent identification of the intelligence sources and
methods.
Security Measure – Special action taken to
protect information or personnel.
Sensitive – Something which requires special
protection from disclosure.
Sheep Dipping – The use of a military
instrument or officer in a civilian capacity and cover.
Signals – As applied to electronics, any
transmitted electronic impulse.
SIGNIT – Signals Intelligence – Interception,
processing, analysis, and dissemination of information derived from foreign
electrical communications. It is composed of three elements – COMIT, ELINT and
TELINT.
Sleeper – A deep-cover agent planted in
opposition territory with orders to lie low and work up contacts over a period
of years before being introduced into the network.
Source – A person, thing or activity which
provides intelligence information.
Special Projects – Nickname for covert and
clandestine operations.
Station – Chief office of an intelligence agency in
a foreign country, most often located in an embassy.
Stroller – A walking pedestrian equipped with
walkie-talkie radio.
Sterilize – To remove from material to be used
in covert and clandestine operations, any marks or devices which can identify
it as originating with the sponsoring organization.
Strategic Intelligence – Intelligence required
for the formation of policy and military plans and operations at the national
and international level.
Subversion – Actions designed to undermine the
military, economic, political, psychological or moral strength of a nation.
Surreptitious Entry – Black Bag Operation,
breaking and entering to obtain information.
Tactical Intelligence – Intelligence supporting
plans and operations at the unit level.
Target – A person, agency, facility, area or
country against which intelligence operations are directed.
Toxin – Chemicals which are not living
organisms, but which are produced by living organism that are lethal.
Traffic – Messages carried over a
telecommunications network.
UNSUB – Unknown Subject
Walk-In – An agent who volunteers or offers his
services.
Watch List – A list of words, names, entities
or phrases that can be employed by computer, passenger
manifests or boarder
guards to select out required information from a mass of data.
XX Committee – the Double-Cross Committee set
up during World War II to control and exploit double and turned Nazi agents
in Britain.
FBI GLOSSARY By M. Wesley Swearington
ADD – Associate Deputy Director
ADDIC – Assistant Director in Charge
AG – Attorney General of the USA
AIRTEL – A written memorandum between FBI field
offices or Bureau headquarters. It is a 1950s acronym for a memo sent via air
mail in teletype format. Over the years it became bastardized into the usual
verbose bureaucratic memo as opposed to the short and abrupt teletype format.
The AIRTEL was originally created to save money; however, it still requires the
immediate handling of investigative leads and the immediate distribution by the
clerical staff to the intended receiver.
Apalachin – The turning point in the FBI’s
investigation of the American Mafia. The largest ever known meeting of mobsters
took place in 1957 in Apalachin, New York, which was discovered
accidently by a New York State Trooper. This huge discovery embarrassed Hover’s
FBI into fully investigating organized crime.
ASAC – Assistant Special Agent in Charge of an FBI
Field Office.
AUSA – Assistant United States Attorney.
Black Bag Job- The FBI’s term for an illegal search.
The term originated from the use of a black leather bag to carry lock picking
tools, cameras, steamers, letter openers, flashlights, and other equipment to
conduct an illegal search after picking a lock.
Brick Agent – Agents who work in the field offices
conducting investigations.
Bureau – The term used by FBI Field Agents when
referring to FBI headquarters inWashington , D.C., also known as
FBIHQ
Bug – A hidden microphone placed in an office or
private residence, which is different from a wire tap on a telephone, often
done without a court order or Attorney General approval making the information
inadmissible in court.
C-1 –The FBI’s Criminal Squad Number One
in Chicago, which handled the investigation of organized crime, also known
as the Top Hoodlum Program (THP) squad.
CIA “asset” – An informant, a source, or
assassin used by the CIA, but is not a government employee.
“Chop” – To kill.
“Clip” – To murder gangland style.
COINTELPRO – The FBI’s code word for the counter-intelligence
program, which was in operation from the mid-1950s until April 21, 1971.
COINTELPRO continued under individual case titles.
Consiglieri – A highly placed advisor or counselor
in an organized crime family.
“Dry Clean” –
To take evasive action to detect a physical surveillance.
“ELSUR” – The FBI’s code word for electronic
surveillance in the form of a bug or wiretap.
FBIHQ – FBI Headquarters
in Washington, D.C.
“FISUR” – The FBI’s code word for physical
surveillance.
“Hit” – To kill.
“Honey Trap” – Using a women to blackmail
La Cosa Nostra (LCN) – La Cosa Nostra was the term
given to organized crime families by law enforcement.
“Made Guy” – An actual member of the Chicago’s
LCN mob family.
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“marked card” – “canary trap” (Tom Clancy Patriot Games0 “barium meal” (Peter Wright, Spycather) was a practice in intelligence circles of slightly altering items in Oswald's biography and using these items as "marked cards" as they passed information back and forth with each other. If an unauthorized person had access to a particular spelling of a name, for example, that "marked card" indicated that there had been a leak. A leaker might be a defector.
“MO” – The FBI’s bug placed in Sam Giancana’s office
in Chicago.
SAC – Special Agent in Charge of a field office.
“Rub Out” – To kill
Tap – A wire tap usually placed on a telephone
through the telephone company with a court order, or with the approval of the
Attorney General.
THP – Top Hoodlum Program.
“Whack” – To kill.
ACRONYMS
ABC – American Broadcasting Corporation
ACLU – American Civil Liberties Union
AF1 – Air Force One
AFOSI – Air Force Office of Special Investigations
AFSC – Armed Forces Security Agency
AID – Agency for International Development
AIM – Accuracy In Media
AKA – Also Known As
AMBOT - Cuban Case Officers/Reports?
AMBOT - Cuban Case Officers/Reports?
AP – Associated Press
API - Aerospace Industries Association
API - Aerospace Industries Association
BNDD – Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
BNE – Board of National Estimates
BNNMC – Bethesda National
Naval Medical Center, Maryland.
BTW – By The Way
CAC - Caribbean Action Center - Debriefed refugees
CAC - Caribbean Action Center - Debriefed refugees
CAP – Civil Air Patrol
CAR – Cuban Aid Relief
CBS – Columbia Broadcastings System
CDIP – Consolidated Defense Intelligence Budget
CFI – Committee on Foreign Intelligence
CFR - Council on Foreign Relations
CFR - Council on Foreign Relations
CIA – Central Intelligence Agency
CI – Counter-Intelligence
CIC - Counterintelligence Corps (USA)
CIC - Counterintelligence Corps (USA)
CIG – Central Intelligence Group (1946-47
predecessor of CIA)
CIS – Counter-Intelligence Staff (CIA)
CJCS – US Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
(US DOD)
CNN – US Cable News Network
COINTELPRO – FBI counter-intelligence program
directed at US domestic activities.
COMINT – Communications Intelligence – Technical and
intelligence information derived from communications by someone other than the
intended recipient, not including press, propaganda or public broadcasts.
COMIREX – Committee on Imagery Requirements and
Exploitation, established in 1967 to succeed COMOR as the USIB subcommittee
responsible for management and collection planning for U2 and satellite
reconnaissance.
COMOR – Committee on Overhead Reconnaissance, a USIB
subcommittee established in 1960 to coordinate intelligence collection
requirements among the Departments for the development and operation of all
overhead reconnaissance systems.
COMPADRE – A CIA operation in
the Philippines.
COMSEC – Communications Security
CONDOR – A CIA operation to replace the
government in Chile
CONUS – Continental United States
– U.S. territory, including adjacent territorial waters located
within the North American continent between Canada and Mexico.
COS – Chief of Station, CIA, FBI or Secret
Service in different cities.
CRC – Cuban Revolutionary Council – CIA Cuban group established to replace the government of Cuba after the overthrow of Castro.
CRC – Cuban Revolutionary Council – CIA Cuban group established to replace the government of Cuba after the overthrow of Castro.
CREEP – Committee to Re-Elect the President
(Nixon)
CRF - Cuban Revolutionary Front
CSS – Central Security Service
CRF - Cuban Revolutionary Front
CSS – Central Security Service
CSIS – Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
CUI - Controlled Unclassified Information Office of ISSO
CUI - Controlled Unclassified Information Office of ISSO
DAS – Defense Attache System
DCI – Director Central Intelligence (CIA)
DCID – Director of Central Intelligence Directive –
A directive issued by the DCI which outlines general policies and
procedures to be followed by the intelligence community, more specific than a
NSID.
DCS – Domestic Contact Service – A component of CIA CIG, responsible for domestic sources for foreign intelligence information, renamed Domestic Contacts Division in 1951, became component of DDI in 1952, renamed DCS in 1965; transferred to DDO in 1973 and renamed Domestic Collection Division (DCD).
DCS – Domestic Contact Service – A component of CIA CIG, responsible for domestic sources for foreign intelligence information, renamed Domestic Contacts Division in 1951, became component of DDI in 1952, renamed DCS in 1965; transferred to DDO in 1973 and renamed Domestic Collection Division (DCD).
DDA – CIA Directorate of Administration,
established in 1950, responsible for personnel, budget, security, medical
services and logistical support for overseas operations.
DDCI – Deputy Director, Central Intelligence –
Second person in line of CIA command.
DDI – Directorate of Intelligence – CIA,
created in 1952, responsible for production of finished intelligence (excluding
scientific and technical intelligence since 1963)and for collection of overt
information.
DDO – Deputy Director of Operations or Directorate of Operations, CIA.
DDO – Deputy Director of Operations or Directorate of Operations, CIA.
DDP – Directorate of Plans, created in 1952 from the
integration of OSO and OPC, also known as the “Clandestine Service,”
responsible for clandestine collection.
DDR – Directorate of Research, created in 1962,
predecessor to the Directorate of Science and Technology.
DDS – Deputy Director for
Support, CIA
DDS&T – Directorate for Science and Technology, organized in 1963, combining OSI, the Data Processing staff, the Office of ELINT, the DPD and Office of Research and Development.
DDS&T – Directorate for Science and Technology, organized in 1963, combining OSI, the Data Processing staff, the Office of ELINT, the DPD and Office of Research and Development.
DEA – Drug Enforcement Administration
DEFCON – Defense Condition 1 – 5 Military Alert
status and posture at any given time.
DGI – Direccion General de Intelligenca
– Cuba’s Secret Service
DGSE – Direccion General de Securite Exterieure
– French Secret Service
DIA – Defense Intelligence Agency – created by
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1961, responsible for production of
military intelligence.
DINA – Chilean Secret Police
DIOP – Defense Intelligence Objectives and
Priorities.
DIRDIA – Director Defense Intelligence Agency
DIS – Defense Investigative Services
DISCOVERER – First recon satellite, launched by
Lockheed in Calf. In Aug. 1960.
DISIP – Venezuelan Intelligence Service.
Division Five – FBI Counter-Intelligence
DKIQs - Defense Key Intelligence Questions
DMA – Defense Mapping Agency
DNC – Democratic National Committee
DOD – Department of Defense
DOE – Department of Energy
DO J – Department of Justice
DPC- Dallas Petroleum Club
DPC- Dallas Petroleum Club
DPD – Dallas Police Department (Texas)
DRE – Directoate Estudente Revolution –
Anti-Bastista, Anti-Castro Cuban group.
ELINT – Electronic Intelligence – Technical and
intelligence information derived from the collection or interception and
processing of electromagnetic radiations (non-communications) emanting from
sources such as radar.
EXCOM – Executive Committee established in 1965 for the management of overhead reconnaissance for CIA and DOD.
EXCOM – Executive Committee established in 1965 for the management of overhead reconnaissance for CIA and DOD.
FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation
FFCGIJP – Fund For Constitutional Government
Investigative Journalism Project (DC)
FOIA – Freedom of Information Act.
FOIA/PA – Freedom of Information Act/ Privacy Act
FPCC – Fair Play for Cuba Committee
FSO – Foreign Service Officer
FYDP – Fiscal Year Defense Plan
GAO – General Accounting Office
GCCS – Global Command and Control Stations
GRU – Soviet Military Intelligence Service
GSA – General Services Administration.
HUMINT – Human Intelligence
HUAC – House Unamerican Activities Commiteee
HSCA – House Select Committee on Assinations.
IAB – Intelligence Advisory Board to DCI.
IBM – International Business Machines
IDC – Interagency Defector Committee -
INB – State Department Bureau of Intelligence
and Research
INCA – Information Council of the Americas
INS – US Immigration Nationalization Service
INSCOM – US Army Intelligence & Security
Command, Fort Meade, Maryland.
IRR – Investigative Record Repository, Fort
Meade, Md.
IRS – Internal Revenue Service
ISA – International Security Affairs DOD
ISCAP - Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel
ISSO - Information Security Oversight Office
ISCAP - Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel
ISSO - Information Security Oversight Office
ITM – International Trade Mart (New Orleans)
J-2 – Joint Staff for Intelligence DOD
JAG – Judge Advocate General USN -
JAG – Joint Analysis Group established in 1962 to
provide regular assessments of Soviet and Chinese military strengths.
JCS – Joint Chiefs of Staff
JEDBURGH – Scotland, OSS-OSO training base
during WWII and name given to commando teams parachuted into Nazi
occupied Europe before D-Day.
JFK Act – John F. Kennedy Records Act of 1992
established the JFK Assassination Records Collection at the NARA and
the temporary Assassination Records Review Board.
JFK ARC – JFK Assassination Records Collection at
Archives II, College Park, Md.
JFK Library – Presidential
Library, Boston, Mass.
JMWAVE – CIA Cuban operations base
at University of Miami, Florida.
JRC – Joint Reconnaissance Center
JURE – Anti-Castro Cuban group.
KGB – Soviet National Intelligence Service.
KYP – Greek Intelligence Service
LAN – Local Area Networks
LBJ Library – President LBJ
Library, Austin, Texas.
LI – CIA LI crypts refer to Mexico
City CIA station.
LSU
– Louisiana State University, New Orleans
LTV - Ling-Tempo-Vought
LTV - Ling-Tempo-Vought
MAW – Military Airlift Wing, Andrews AFB
MI5 – British Counter-Intelligence Service
MI6 – British Foreign Intelligence Service
MI8 – British Cryptography
MFF – Mary Farrell Foundation/Files –
MOSSAD – Mossad Le Aliya Beth – Israel’s
Intelligence and Security Service.
MRBM – Medium Range Ballistic Missile
MSCMS – Mystic Star Communications Systems
MVD – Soviet Russian era ministry of Internal
Affairs.
NAA - National Aeronautic Association
NAA - National Aeronautic Association
NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People
NARA – National Archives and Records
Administration
NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NBC – National Broadcasting Company
NBR – Not Believed Relevant – Excuse not to
release FOIA or JFK Act records
NCA – National Command Authority
the nuclear “release authority,” as it is called,
does not follow the Constitution’s line of succession. The release authority
passes from a disabled or missing President to the Secretary of Defense, and
then, if necessary, to the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
NCS – Net Control Station Andrews
NEACAP – National Emergency Airborne Command
Post
NFIP – National Foreign Intelligence Program
NIH – National Institute of Health
(Bethesda, Md.)
NINDB – National Institute of Neurological Diseases
and Blindness.
NKVD – Predecessor of the KGB in Soviet Russia.
NORORN – No Foreign Dissemination
NPIC
– National Photo Interpretation Center (CIA)
Established in 1961to analyze photography derived from overhead reconnaissance.
NPR – National Public Radio
NRO – National Reconnaissance Office
NRO – National Reconnaissance Office
NSA – US National Security Agency
NSAM – National Security Action Memorandum – issued
by the President
NSC – National Security Council
NSC – National Security Council
NSC – US National Security Council, the senior
decision making body of the Executive Branch, established in 1947.
NSIA - National Security Industrial Association
OAS - Organization of American States
OCSA - Office of Censorship and Special Analysis
OEP - Office of Emergency Planning
OGIS - Officeof Government Information Services
OIP - Office of Information (DOJ)
NSIA - National Security Industrial Association
OAS - Organization of American States
OCSA - Office of Censorship and Special Analysis
OEP - Office of Emergency Planning
OGIS - Officeof Government Information Services
OIP - Office of Information (DOJ)
OJCS – Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
OMB – Office of Management and Budget
ONI – US Office of Naval Intelligence
OO – Office of Operations, DDI, collected overt
intelligence until 1965.
OPC – Office of Policy Coordination, a
component of CIA established in 1948 with responsibility of
conducting covert operations. Merged with OSO in 1952 to form DDP.
OPEC – Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries.
OSD – Office of the Secretary of Defense
OSI – Office of Scientific Intelligence,
created in 1949, became component of DDI in 1952, transferred to DDS&T
in 1963.
OSO – Office of Special Operations, DOD.
OSS – Office of Strategic Services
– US Army Intelligence Agency 1942-45.
PBCFIA – President Board of Consultants on Foreign
Intelligence Activities, created in 1956, renamed PFIAB in 1961.
PCG – Planning and Coordinating Group
of NSC.
PFIA – President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board.
PIDB - Public Interest Declassification Board
PIDB - Public Interest Declassification Board
PLO – Palestine Liberation
Organization
POGP - Project On Government Oversight
POGP - Project On Government Oversight
POW – Prisoner of War.
PSB – Psychological Strategy Board, established
in 1951 under NSC, charged with directing psychological warfare programs,
replaced by OCB in 1953.
PZPR – Cold War era Polish Secret Police and
Intelligence Agency
RCMP – Royal Canadian Mounted Police
R&D – Research and Development
R&D – Research and Development
RDT&E – Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation
ROCKCOM – Rockefeller Commission – President’s
Commission on Central Intelligence Agency activities within the USA.
RYBAT – CIA crypt for “secret”
SACSA - Office of the Special Assistant Counter-Insurgency and Special Affairs of the Joint Chiefs Staff
SACSA - Office of the Special Assistant Counter-Insurgency and Special Affairs of the Joint Chiefs Staff
SALT – Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SAM – Surface to Air Missile
SAM – Special Air Mission
SAMOS – Satellite and Mission Observation
System – First US recon satellite, 1961
SDECE – French Intelligence Agency
SEC – Securities and Exchange Commission
SHNS – Scripps-Howard News Service
SIC – Senate Intelligence Committee
SIGNIT – Signals Intelligence – Interception,
processing, analysis and dissemination of information derived from foreign
electrical communications. It is composed of three elements – COMIT, ELINT and
TELINT.
SMERSH – Smyert Shpionam “Death to Spies” –
Stalinist military counter-intelligence unit made famous by Ian Fleming.
SOD – Special Operations Division, Fort
Detrick, Maryland
SOE – Special Operations Executive – British
WWII program to develop covert operations against Nazi Germany and
occupied Europe.
Special Group (Augumented) a US National Security
Council subcommittee established in 1962 to oversee Operation MONGOOSE, a
major CIA covert action program designed to overthrow Cuban premier
Fidel Castro.
SPG – Special Procedures Group – est. 1947 to
conduct covert psychological operations
SS – Secret Service
SSA – Social Security Administration
SSB – Single-Side-Band radio
SSCI – Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
STB – Czech Intelligence Service
SUCCESS – Operation Success – Guatemala Coup,
1954
TELINT – Telemetry Intelligence
TOA – Technical Services Division, CIA
TRAX – Camp Trax – Cuban training base in Guatemala, 1960-1961
TOA – Technical Services Division, CIA
TRAX – Camp Trax – Cuban training base in Guatemala, 1960-1961
TWA – Trans World Airlines
U2 – US high altitude photo recon plane
UFC – United Fruit Company
UHF – Ultra High Frequency
UM – University of Miami, home of
JMWAVE.
UN – United Nations
UNSUB – Unknown Subject
UPI – United Press International news wire service
USIA – United States Information Agency
USIB – United States Intelligence Board, established
1958
USMC – United States Marine Corps
USPS – United States Postal Service
USSR – Union of Soviet Socialists Republics
VENONA – Coded Soviet Russian Communications
Intercept.
WC – Warren Commission
WHCA – White House Communications Agency
WHCA – White House Communications Agency
WACL – World Anti-Communism League
XX Committee – The British Double-Cross Committee
set up during World War II to control and exploit double and turned
