• INFORMATION ON ACRONYMS - 1986 FILE: UFO2203

    From Jim Singleton@RICKSBBS to All on Mon May 4 07:13:43 2026


    INFORMATION ON ACRONYMS -1986

    A2 - Air Force Intelligence
    AAC - Alasken 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 & Liaisons -
    (NSA)
    ADPR - Assistant Director for Plans / Resources -
    (NSA)
    ADT - Assistant Director for Training
    ADVA - Advance Soviet - One of 4 major operational
    divisions of NSA's production organizations:
    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 Council
    AFSS - Air Force Security Service
    ALF - Alien Life Form
    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
    ARC - Ad Hoc Requirements
    ARDF - Airborne Radio Directional Finding
    ARFCOS - Armed Forces Courier service
    ARPA - Advance Research Projects Agency
    ASA - Army Security Agency
    ASD - Applied Science Division
    ASEAN - Association of East Asian Nations
    AST - Atlantic Standard Time
    AWACS - Airborne Warning and Control System
    ATIC - Air Technical Intelligence Center (Air Force)
    UFORC - UFO Reporting Center
    BMW - Bomb Wing
    UFOIS - UFO Information Service
    CAUS - Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
    CFS - Canadian Forces Station
    CGS - Coast Guard Station
    CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
    CIC - Counter Intelligence Corps
    CINC - Commander in Charge
    CUFOS - Center for UFO Studies
    COMINT - Communication Intelligence (NSA)
    CP - Command Post
    CSC - Central Security Control (USAF)
    DATT - Defense Attache (US EMBASSY)
    DCD - Domestic Collection Division (CIA)
    DCI - Director of Central Intelligence
    DCSOPS - Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and
    Plans (USAF)
    DDO - Deputy Director for Operations (USAF)
    DIA - Defense Intelligence Agency
    DMZ - Demilitarized Zone (VIETNAM)
    DO - Duty Officer
    DREAM - - Unclassified nickname for a Military Research area
    LAND in South-Central Nevada
    FAA - Federal Aviation Agency
    FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
    FISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
    FOIA - Freedom of Information Act
    G2 - Army Intelligence
    GAO - Government Accounting Office
    GCCS - Government Code and Crypto School
    GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters
    GCI - Ground Control Intercept
    GENS - General Soviet - One of the 4 Major
    Operational Divisions of NSA's Production
    Organizations Combined With ADVA into
    (A Group)
    GG - Government Grade - Used in place of GS1 to
    GS18 - ONLY FOR GOV'T EMPLOYEES SUCH AS NSA
    EMPLOYEES
    GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
    GSW - Ground Saucer Watch
    HAWC - High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center
    (AREA-51)
    HFDF - High Frequency Direction Finder
    HUAC - House of Unamerican Activities Committee
    HUMINT - Human Intelligence
    ICI - Inter-agency 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
    JACL - Judge Advocate General, Litigation Division
    JANAP - Joint Army Navy Air Force Publication
    JCS - Joint Chief of Staffs
    JOSAF - Joint Operations Support Activity - Frankfurt
    JRC - Joint Reconnaissance Center
    JSPC - Joint Sobe Processing Center
    JTLS - Joint Technical Language Service
    KGB - Komitet Gosudrstvennoy Bezopasnosti
    (Committee for State Security) USSR
    KISR - Kuwatt Institute for Scientific Research
    KM - Kilometer
    LASP - Low Altitude Surveillance Platform
    LCF - Launch Control Facility
    LOB - Raymond E. Linn Operations Building
    LPMEDLEY- CIA Cryptonym For an Operation in Support of
    the NSA
    LRTS - Long Range Technical Support
    MAJI - Majestic Agency for Joint Intelligence
    MAJIC - MAJIC is the Highest Security Classification
    in the Nation
    MI-8 - Military Intelligence Section 8 - Codes and
    Ciphers Search
    MIB'S - Men in Black
    MID - Military Intelligence Division
    M5 - NSA Office of Security
    MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    MPRO - Machine Processing Section of NSA's Production
    Organization
    MUFON - Mutual UFO Network
    NAVASPASUR- Naval Space Surveillance Systems
    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 (USAF)
    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
    SA - Special Agent
    SAC - Strategic Air Command
    SAC/HO - Strategic Air Command Office of History
    SAFIO - Secretary of the Air Force Office of
    Information
    SAO - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
    SAT - Security Alert Team
    SBI - Special Background Investigation
    UFO/IAC - Unidentified Flying Object/Identified Alien Craft


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