(p. 843) Glossary
(p. 843) Glossary
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ABM anti-ballistic missile
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ADCI/A assistant director of Central Intelligence/Administration
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ADCI/A&P assistant director of Central Intelligence/Analysis and Production
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ADCI/C assistant director of Central Intelligence/Collection
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AEF American Expeditionary Force
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AFIO Association of Former Intelligence Officers
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AG Attorney General
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AIC Australian Intelligence Community
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ANZUS Australia-New Zealand-United States
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ASIO Australian Security Intelligence Organization
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A-12 U.S. spy plane
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AWAC airborne warning and control system (U.S. spy plane)
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BCCI Bank of Credit and Commerce International
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BDA battle damage assessment
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Bfv Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (German internal security service: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz)
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BMD ballistic missile defense
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BND German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst)
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BNL Banca Nazionale del Lavoro
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BW biological weapons
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CA covert action
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CAS Covert Action Staff
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CAT Convention against Torture
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CB chemical-biological
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CBSA Canadian Border Services Agency
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CBW chemical-biological warfare
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CE counterespionage
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CEO chief executive officer
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C4I command, control, computer, communications, and intelligence
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CFR Council on Foreign Relations
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CHAOS crptyonym (code name) for CIA domestic spying operation
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CHEKA Soviet internal security agency under Stalin
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CI counterintelligence
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CIA Central Intelligence Agency (the “Agency”)
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CIC Counterintelligence Center
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CIG Central Intelligence Group
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CINC commander-in-chief (regional military commander)
(p. 844)
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CIO Central Imagery Office
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CIPA Classified Information Procedures Act
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CISC Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada
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CMS Community Management Staff
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CNA Computer Network Attack
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CNC Crime and Narcotics Center (DCI)
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CNO Chief of Naval Operations
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COI Office of Coordinator of Information
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COINTELPRO FBI Counterintelligence Program
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comint communications intelligence
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CORONA codename for the first U.S. spy satellite system
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C/O case officer (CIA)
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COed “case officered”
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COMINT communications intelligence
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COS chief of station, the top CIA officer in the field
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CSEC Communications Security Establishment Canada
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CSIS Canadian Security and Intelligence Service
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CTC Counterterrorism Center (CIA)
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CW chemical weapons
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DA Directorate of Administration
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DAS Deputy Assistant Secretary
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DBA dominant battlefield awareness
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DCI Director of Central Intelligence
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DCIA Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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DDA Deputy Director for Administration
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DDCI Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
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DD/CIA Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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DD/CIA/CM Deputy Director of Central Intelligence/Community Management
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DDI Deputy Director for Intelligence
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DDO Deputy Director for Operations
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DDS&T Deputy Director for Science and Technology
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DEA Drug Enforcement Administration
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DEC DCI's Environmental Center
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DGSE French military foreign intelligence service
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DHS Department of Homeland Security; also, Defense Humint Service (U.S.)
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DI Directorate of Intelligence (CIA)
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DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
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DIAC Defense Intelligence Agency Center
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DIA/Humint Defense Humint Service
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DIS Defence Intelligence Staff (British)
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DMA Defense Mapping Agency
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DND Department of National Defence (Canada)
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DO Directorate of Operations (CIA), also known as the Clandestine Services
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DoD Department of Defense
(p. 845)
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DoE Department of Energy
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DoS Department of State
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DoT Department of Transportation
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DMI Director of Military Intelligence (proposed)
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DNI Director of National Intelligence
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DRKO Department of Peacekeeping Operations (U.N.)
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DS&T Directorate for Science and Technology (CIA)
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Elint electronic intelligence
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Enigma codename for a machine used to break Germany's communications codes in the Second World War
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E.O. executive order
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EOP Executive Office of the President
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EPA Environmental Protection Agency
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EU European Union
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FARRA Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act
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FAS Federation of American Scientists
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FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
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FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service (today the Open Source Center, U.S.)
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FIA Future Imagery Architecture (satellite surveillance plan, U.S.)
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FIAS Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
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fisint foreign instrumentation signals intelligence
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FOIA Freedom of Information Act
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FSB Federal Security Service (Russia, after the Cold War)
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FY Fiscal Year
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GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
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GC Geneva Convention
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GC&CS Government Code and Cypher School (British)
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GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters (British)
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GEO Geosynchronous Orbit
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geoint geospatial intelligence
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gIBIS graphical Issues Based Information Systems
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GID General Intelligence Division (FBI)
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GRU Soviet Military Intelligence
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GSR Ground Surveillance Radar
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GWOT Global War on Terrorism
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HEO Highly Elliptical Orbit
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HPSCI House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
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humint human intelligence (espionage assets)
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IBIS Issues Based Information System
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IC intelligence community
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ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile
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ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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ICS Intelligence Community Staff
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ICC International Criminal Court
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IC-21 Intelligence Community in the 21st Century (report title)
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IG Inspector General
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IG-CSIS Inspector General of CSIS (Canada)
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IJN Imperial Japanese Navy
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IM Intelligence Memorandum
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imint imagery intelligence (photography; geoint)
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INFOSEL information security (NSA)
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Int-Q-Tel a CIA venture capital fund
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ints intelligence collection methods (as in “sigint”)
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INR Bureau of Intelligence and Research (Department of State)
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INSAC Integrated National Security Assessment Center (Canada)
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IOB Intelligence Oversight Board
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IRB Immigration Refugee Board (Canada)
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IRPA Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada)
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IRTPA Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (U.S.)
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ISA Intelligence Support Activity
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ISC Intelligence Services Commissioner (British)
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IT information technology
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I&W indicators and warning
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JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
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JIC Joint Intelligence Committee (U.K.)
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JICLE Joint Intelligence Enforcement Working Group (U.S.)
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JMAC Joint Mission Analysis Cell (U.N.)
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JMIP joint military intelligence program
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JROC Joint Reconnaissance Operations Center
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JSOC Joint Special Operations Command
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JSTARS Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar Systems
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KGB Soviet Secret Police and Foreign Intelligence: Committee for State Security
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KH Keyhole (satellite)
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KP kitchen police (U.S. Army slang)
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LEO Low Earth Orbit
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MAGIC Allied code-breaking operations against the Japanese in World War II, also known as PURPLE
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masint measurement and signatures intelligence
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MI military intelligence
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MIA missing in action
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MIB Military Information Branch (U.N.)
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MIP Military Intelligence Program
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MIRV multiple, independently targeted, re-entry vehicle
(p. 847)
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MI5 British Security Service
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MI6 Secret Intelligence Service (SIS—United Kingdom)
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MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MOA Memorandum of Agreement
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MON Memorandum of Notification
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Mossad Israeli intelligence agency
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MRBM medium-range ballistic missiles
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MRC major regional conflict
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MX Missile Experimental (a component of U.S. nuclear deterrence)
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NAC National Assessment Center (proposed)
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NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
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NAO National Applications Office (Department of Homeland Security)
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NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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NCPC National Counterproliferation Center (for the DNI)
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NCS National Clandestine Service
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NCTC National Counterterrorism Center (for the DNI)
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NFAC National Foreign Assessment Center
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NFIP National Foreign Intelligence Program (now NIP)
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NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
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NGO non-governmental organization
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NIA National Imagery Agency (proposed)
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NIC National Intelligence Council
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NID National Intelligence Director (variation of DNI)
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NIE National Intelligence Estimate
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NIO National Intelligence Officer
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NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency
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NIP National Intelligence Program
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NIPF National Intelligence Priorities Framework
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NKVD the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union)
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NOC nonofficial cover
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NPC Nonproliferation Center
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NPIC National Photographic Interpretation Center
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NRO National Reconnaissance Office
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NSA National Security Agency
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NSC National Security Council
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NSDD National Security Decision Directive
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NTM National Technical Means
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NZ New Zealand
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OBE overtaken by events
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OC official cover
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ODNI Office of the Director of National Intelligence
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OGPU State Political Directorate (Soviet Union)
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OKW Axis crytanalysis agency
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OLC Office of Legal Council (Justice Department)
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OMB Office of Management and Budget
(p. 848)
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ONE Office of National Estimates
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ONI Office of Naval Intelligence
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ONUC U.N. Operation in Congo
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OPC Office of Policy Coordination (CIA)
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OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
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osint open-source intelligence
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OSP Office of Special Planning (DoD)
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OSS Office of Strategic Services
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PAC Political Action Committee
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PBCFIA President's Board of Consultants on Foreign Intelligence Activities
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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 (as of 2008, PIAB)
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phoint photographic intelligence (also, photoint; imint; geoint)
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PIAB President's Intelligence Advisory Board
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PKI peacekeeping intelligence
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PM ops paramilitary operations
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PNG persona non grata
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POW prisoner of war
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PRB Publication Review Board (CIA)
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PRC People's Republic of China
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PSC Public Safety Canada
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radint radar intelligence
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RAF Royal Air Force
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RAND a Washington and California think tank
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R&D research and development
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RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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RIPA Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (British)
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RMA revolution in military affairs
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RN Royal Navy (British)
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SAIC Science Applications International Corporation
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SAIS School of Advanced International Studies (Johns Hopkins)
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SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
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SAM surface-to-air missile
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SAP Special Access Program
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SCEs Service Cryptologic Elements (U.S.)
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SDO support to diplomatic operations
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secdef Secretary of Defense
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SF Special Forces (Green Berets—U.S. Army)
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SHAMROCK cryptonym for NSA domestic spying operations
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sigint signals intelligence
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SIRC Security Intelligence Review Committee (Canada)
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SIS Secret Intelligence Services (British), also known as MI6
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SLBM submarine-launched ballistic missile
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SMO support to military operations
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SMUN Soviet Mission to the UN
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SNIE Special National Intelligence Estimate
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SOCOM Special Operations Command
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SOE Special Operations Executive (British)
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SOF Special Operations Forces (U.S.)
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SOG Special Operations Group (CIA)
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SOVA Office of Soviet Analysis (CIA)
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SR-21 U.S. spy plane
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SSCI Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
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SVR Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (the new KGB)
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TCA Technical Collection Agency (proposed)
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techint technical intelligence
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telint telemetry intelligence
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TIARA tactical intelligence and related activities
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TOR terms of reference (for NIE drafting)
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TSP Terrorism Surveillance Program (U.S.)
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UAV unmanned aerial vehicle (drone)
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UCMJ Uniform Code of Military Justice
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UK United Kingdom
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UKUSA United Kingdom, United States, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand intelligence sharing
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Ultra communications intelligence obtained by the United States and Britain during the Second World War
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U-2 CIA spy plane
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UN United Nations
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UNAMIR UN Mission for Rwanda
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UNCOK UN Commission on Korea
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UNEF UN Emergency Force
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UNSEC UN Secretariat
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UNTAG UN Mission in Namibia
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USAF U.S. Air Force
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USC U.S. Code (a statutory identification system)
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USCS U.S. Cryptologic System
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USIB U.S. Intelligence Board
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USN U.S. Navy
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USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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USSS U.S. Sigint System
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USTR U.S. Trade Representative
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VENONA Codename for U.S. Army Signal Corps and NSA sigint intercepts against Soviets (1943–1980)
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VX a deadly nerve agent used in chemical weapons
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WIPACC Weapons Intelligence, Proliferation, and Arms Control Center
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WMDs weapons of mass destruction