ABM anti-ballistic missile

ADCI/A assistant director of Central Intelligence/Administration

ADCI/A&P assistant director of Central Intelligence/Analysis and Production

ADCI/C assistant director of Central Intelligence/Collection

AEF American Expeditionary Force

AFIO Association of Former Intelligence Officers

AG Attorney General

AIC Australian Intelligence Community

ANZUS Australia-New Zealand-United States

ASIO Australian Security Intelligence Organization

A-12 U.S. spy plane

AWAC airborne warning and control system (U.S. spy plane)

BCCI Bank of Credit and Commerce International

BDA battle damage assessment

Bfv Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German internal security service: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz)

BMD ballistic missile defense

BND German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst)

BNL Banca Nazionale del Lavoro

BW biological weapons

CA covert action

CAS Covert Action Staff

CAT Convention against Torture

CB chemical-biological

CBSA Canadian Border Services Agency

CBW chemical-biological warfare

CE counterespionage

CEO chief executive officer

C4I command, control, computer, communications, and intelligence

CFR Council on Foreign Relations

CHAOS crptyonym (code name) for CIA domestic spying operation

CHEKA Soviet internal security agency under Stalin

CI counterintelligence

CIA Central Intelligence Agency (the “Agency”)

CIC Counterintelligence Center

CIG Central Intelligence Group

CINC commander-in-chief (regional military commander)

CIO Central Imagery Office

CIPA Classified Information Procedures Act

CISC Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada

CMS Community Management Staff

CNA Computer Network Attack

CNC Crime and Narcotics Center (DCI)

CNO Chief of Naval Operations

COI Office of Coordinator of Information

COINTELPRO FBI Counterintelligence Program

comint communications intelligence

CORONA codename for the first U.S. spy satellite system

C/O case officer (CIA)

COed “case officered”

COMINT communications intelligence

COS chief of station, the top CIA officer in the field

CSEC Communications Security Establishment Canada

CSIS Canadian Security and Intelligence Service

CTC Counterterrorism Center (CIA)

CW chemical weapons

DA Directorate of Administration

DAS Deputy Assistant Secretary

DBA dominant battlefield awareness

DCI Director of Central Intelligence

DCIA Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

DDA Deputy Director for Administration

DDCI Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

DD/CIA Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

DD/CIA/CM Deputy Director of Central Intelligence/Community Management

DDI Deputy Director for Intelligence

DDO Deputy Director for Operations

DDS&T Deputy Director for Science and Technology

DEA Drug Enforcement Administration

DEC DCI's Environmental Center

DGSE French military foreign intelligence service

DHS Department of Homeland Security; also, Defense Humint Service (U.S.)

DI Directorate of Intelligence (CIA)

DIA Defense Intelligence Agency

DIAC Defense Intelligence Agency Center

DIA/Humint Defense Humint Service

DIS Defence Intelligence Staff (British)

DMA Defense Mapping Agency

DND Department of National Defence (Canada)

DO Directorate of Operations (CIA), also known as the Clandestine Services

DoD Department of Defense

DoE Department of Energy

DoS Department of State

DoT Department of Transportation

DMI Director of Military Intelligence (proposed)

DNI Director of National Intelligence

DRKO Department of Peacekeeping Operations (U.N.)

DS&T Directorate for Science and Technology (CIA)

Elint electronic intelligence

Enigma codename for a machine used to break Germany's communications codes in the Second World War

E.O. executive order

EOP Executive Office of the President

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EU European Union

FARRA Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act

FAS Federation of American Scientists

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service (today the Open Source Center, U.S.)

FIA Future Imagery Architecture (satellite surveillance plan, U.S.)

FIAS Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

fisint foreign instrumentation signals intelligence

FOIA Freedom of Information Act

FSB Federal Security Service (Russia, after the Cold War)

FY Fiscal Year

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GC Geneva Convention

GC&CS Government Code and Cypher School (British)

GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters (British)

GEO Geosynchronous Orbit

geoint geospatial intelligence

gIBIS graphical Issues Based Information Systems

GID General Intelligence Division (FBI)

GRU Soviet Military Intelligence

GSR Ground Surveillance Radar

GWOT Global War on Terrorism

HEO Highly Elliptical Orbit

HPSCI House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

humint human intelligence (espionage assets)

IBIS Issues Based Information System

IC intelligence community

ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile

ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

ICS Intelligence Community Staff

ICC International Criminal Court

IC-21 Intelligence Community in the 21st Century (report title)

IG Inspector General

IG-CSIS Inspector General of CSIS (Canada)

IJN Imperial Japanese Navy

IM Intelligence Memorandum

imint imagery intelligence (photography; geoint)

INFOSEL information security (NSA)

Int-Q-Tel a CIA venture capital fund

ints intelligence collection methods (as in “sigint”)

INR Bureau of Intelligence and Research (Department of State)

INSAC Integrated National Security Assessment Center (Canada)

IOB Intelligence Oversight Board

IRB Immigration Refugee Board (Canada)

IRPA Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada)

IRTPA Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (U.S.)

ISA Intelligence Support Activity

ISC Intelligence Services Commissioner (British)

IT information technology

I&W indicators and warning

JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff

JIC Joint Intelligence Committee (U.K.)

JICLE Joint Intelligence Enforcement Working Group (U.S.)

JMAC Joint Mission Analysis Cell (U.N.)

JMIP joint military intelligence program

JROC Joint Reconnaissance Operations Center

JSOC Joint Special Operations Command

JSTARS Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar Systems

KGB Soviet Secret Police and Foreign Intelligence: Committee for State Security

KH Keyhole (satellite)

KP kitchen police (U.S. Army slang)

LEO Low Earth Orbit

MAGIC Allied code-breaking operations against the Japanese in World War II, also known as PURPLE

masint measurement and signatures intelligence

MI military intelligence

MIA missing in action

MIB Military Information Branch (U.N.)

MIP Military Intelligence Program

MIRV multiple, independently targeted, re-entry vehicle

MI5 British Security Service

MI6 Secret Intelligence Service (SIS—United Kingdom)

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MOA Memorandum of Agreement

MON Memorandum of Notification

Mossad Israeli intelligence agency

MRBM medium-range ballistic missiles

MRC major regional conflict

MX Missile Experimental (a component of U.S. nuclear deterrence)

NAC National Assessment Center (proposed)

NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement

NAO National Applications Office (Department of Homeland Security)

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NCPC National Counterproliferation Center (for the DNI)

NCS National Clandestine Service

NCTC National Counterterrorism Center (for the DNI)

NFAC National Foreign Assessment Center

NFIP National Foreign Intelligence Program (now NIP)

NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

NGO non-governmental organization

NIA National Imagery Agency (proposed)

NIC National Intelligence Council

NID National Intelligence Director (variation of DNI)

NIE National Intelligence Estimate

NIO National Intelligence Officer

NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency

NIP National Intelligence Program

NIPF National Intelligence Priorities Framework

NKVD the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)

NOC nonofficial cover

NPC Nonproliferation Center

NPIC National Photographic Interpretation Center

NRO National Reconnaissance Office

NSA National Security Agency

NSC National Security Council

NSDD National Security Decision Directive

NTM National Technical Means

NZ New Zealand

OBE overtaken by events

OC official cover

ODNI Office of the Director of National Intelligence

OGPU State Political Directorate (Soviet Union)

OKW Axis crytanalysis agency

OLC Office of Legal Council (Justice Department)

OMB Office of Management and Budget

ONE Office of National Estimates

ONI Office of Naval Intelligence

ONUC U.N. Operation in Congo

OPC Office of Policy Coordination (CIA)

OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

osint open-source intelligence

OSP Office of Special Planning (DoD)

OSS Office of Strategic Services

PAC Political Action Committee

PBCFIA President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities

PDB President's Daily Brief

PDD Presidential Decision Directive

PFIAB President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (as of 2008, PIAB)

phoint photographic intelligence (also, photoint; imint; geoint)

PIAB President's Intelligence Advisory Board

PKI peacekeeping intelligence

PM ops paramilitary operations

PNG persona non grata

POW prisoner of war

PRB Publication Review Board (CIA)

PRC People's Republic of China

PSC Public Safety Canada

radint radar intelligence

RAF Royal Air Force

RAND a Washington and California think tank

R&D research and development

RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police

RIPA Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (British)

RMA revolution in military affairs

RN Royal Navy (British)

SAIC Science Applications International Corporation

SAIS School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins)

SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

SAM surface-to-air missile

SAP Special Access Program

SCEs Service Cryptologic Elements (U.S.)

SDO support to diplomatic operations

secdef Secretary of Defense

SF Special Forces (Green Berets—U.S. Army)

SHAMROCK cryptonym for NSA domestic spying operations

sigint signals intelligence

SIRC Security Intelligence Review Committee (Canada)

SIS Secret Intelligence Services (British), also known as MI6

SLBM submarine-launched ballistic missile

SMO support to military operations

SMUN Soviet Mission to the UN

SNIE Special National Intelligence Estimate

SOCOM Special Operations Command

SOE Special Operations Executive (British)

SOF Special Operations Forces (U.S.)

SOG Special Operations Group (CIA)

SOVA Office of Soviet Analysis (CIA)

SR-21 U.S. spy plane

SSCI Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

SVR Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (the new KGB)

TCA Technical Collection Agency (proposed)

techint technical intelligence

telint telemetry intelligence

TIARA tactical intelligence and related activities

TOR terms of reference (for NIE drafting)

TSP Terrorism Surveillance Program (U.S.)

UAV unmanned aerial vehicle (drone)

UCMJ Uniform Code of Military Justice

UK United Kingdom

UKUSA United Kingdom, United States, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand intelligence sharing

Ultra communications intelligence obtained by the United States and Britain during the Second World War

U-2 CIA spy plane

UN United Nations

UNAMIR UN Mission for Rwanda

UNCOK UN Commission on Korea

UNEF UN Emergency Force

UNSEC UN Secretariat

UNTAG UN Mission in Namibia

USAF U.S. Air Force

USC U.S. Code (a statutory identification system)

USCS U.S. Cryptologic System

USIB U.S. Intelligence Board

USN U.S. Navy

USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

USSS U.S. Sigint System

USTR U.S. Trade Representative

VENONA Codename for U.S. Army Signal Corps and NSA sigint intercepts against Soviets (1943–1980)

VX a deadly nerve agent used in chemical weapons

WIPACC Weapons Intelligence, Proliferation, and Arms Control Center

WMDs weapons of mass destruction