A2 - Air Force Intelligence
AAC - Alaskan Air Command
AAF - Army Air Force
ACOM - Asian Communist - One of NSA's 4 major Operational Divisions
ADC - AeroSpace Defense Command
ADLA - Assistant Director for Legal & Legislative AffAirs - NSA)
ADPL - Assistant Director for Policy & Liason - (NSA)
ADPR - Assistant Director for Plans / Resources - (NSA)
ADT - Assistant Director for Training
ADVA - Advanced Soviet - One of the 4 major operational divisions of 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
AFOC - Air Force Operations Center
AFR - Air Force Regulation
AFSA - Armed Forces Security Agency
AFSAC - Armed Forces Security Agency Council
AFSS - Air Force Security Service
ALLO - ALL Others- One of the 4 Major Operational Divisions of NSA'S Production
Organization - now known as 'G Group'
ALP - Advanced Language Program
AMB - Ambassador
ANCIB - Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Board
ANCICC - Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Coordinating Committee
ANG - Air National Guard
APRO - Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
AR - Army Regulation
ARC - Ad Hoc Requirements Committee
ARDF - Airborne Radio Direction Finding
ARFCOS - Armed Forces Courier Service
ARPA - Advanced Research Projects Agency
ASA - Army Security Agency
ASD - Applied Science Division (CIA)
AST - Atlantic Standard Time
ATIC - Air Technical Intelligence Center (Air Force)
BMW - Bomb Wing
CAUS - Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
CFS - Canadian Forces Station
CGS - Coast Guard Station
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
CIC - Counter Intelligence Corps
CINC/NORAD - Commander In Charge, NORAD
CSICOP - Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Phenomenon
CUFON - Computer UFO Network
CUFOS - Center for UFO Studies
COMINT - Communications Intelligence (NSA)
CP - Command Post
CSC - Central Security Control (Air Force)
DATT - Defense Attache (US 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
EBE - Extra-terrestrial Biological Entity
ET - Extra-Terrestrial
FAA - Federal Aviation Administration
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
FISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
FOIA - Freedom of Information Act (also F.O.I.A.)
G2 - Army Intelligence
GAO - Government Accounting Office
GCCS - Government Code and Cypher School
GCHQ - Government Communications HeadQuarters
GCI - Ground Control Intercept
GENS - General Soviet - One of the 4 Major Operational Divisions of NSA's Production
Organization combined with ADVA into 'A Group'
GG - Government Grade - used in place of GS1 TO GS18only for Gov't Employees
such as NSA Employees
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time (ZULU Time)
GREY - Alleged Alien Species
GSW - Ground Saucer Watch
HFDF - High Frequency Direction Finding
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
INTELSAT - 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
IUR - International UFO Reporter (Published by CUFOS)
JACL - Judge Advocate General, Litigation Division (USAF)
JANAP - Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication
JCS - Joint Chiefs of Staff
JOSAF - Joint Operations Support Activity - Frankfurt
JRC - Joint Reconnaissance Center
JSPC - Joint SOBE Processing Center
JTLS - Joint Technical Language Service
KGB - Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) USSR
KISR - Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
KM - Kilometer
LASP - Low Altitude Surveillance Platform
LCF - Launch Control Facility (Air Force)
LIUFON - Long Island (NY) UFO Network
LOB - Raymond E. Linn Operations Building
LPMEDLEY - CIA Cryptonym for an Operation in Support of the NSA
LRTS - Long Range Technical
MI-8 - Military Intelligence Section 8 - Codes and Ciphers Search
MIB - 'Men In Black'
MID - Military Intelligence Division
MJ-12 - Alleged Secret Government Committee for UFO/Alien Research
M5 - NSA Office of Security
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPRO - Machine Processing Section of NSA's Production Organization
MUFON - Mutual UFO Network
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)
OSI - Office of Special Investigations (CIA)
OSS - Office of Strategic Services
PSAPR - Puget Sound Aerial Phenomena Research INC.
RAPCOM - Radar Approach Communications
RAPCON - Radar Approach Control
RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RUFO - 'Red Light' Unidentified Flying Object
SA - Special Agent
SAC - 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 Alert Team
SBI - Special Background Investigation
SDS - Students for a Democratic Society
SIGLEX - Special Interest Group on Lexicography
SIGNIT - Signals Intelligence (NSA)
SIGTRAN - Special Interest Group on Translation
SIGVOICE - Special Interest Group on Voice
SIPG - Special Intercept Priorities Group
SIS - Signal Intelligence Service
SOLIS - SIGNIT On Line Intelligence System
SPADATS - Space Detection And Tracking System (NORAD)
SPS - Security Police Squadron
SSA - Signal Security Agency
SSB - Soft Support Building (USAF)
TIA - Temperature Inversion Analysis
UFO - Unidentified Flying Object
UFOIS - UFO Information Service
UFORC - UFO Reporting Center
UFORIC - UFO Research Institute of Canada
USAF - United States Air Force
USG - United States Government
Z - ZULU (Universal Time) (Greenwich Mean Time)