Glossary

A-2 Air Forces intelligence
AAF Army Air Forces
ACSI Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence
AEF American Expeditionary Forces
AFPAC U.S. Army Forces, Pacific
AIA Army Intelligence Agency
AIB Allied Intelligence Bureau
AIS Army Intelligence and Security (branch)
ALSOS secret World War II mission to investigate Nazi atomic research
ANCIB Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Board
ANCICC Army-Navy Communications Intelligence Coordinating Committee
ASA Army Security Agency
ATIS Allied Translator and Interpreter Service
CBB Central Bureau, Brisbane
CENTCOM Central Command
CEWI combat electronic warfare and intelligence
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIC Counter Intelligence Corps
CID Criminal Investigation Division
CIP Corps of Intelligence Police
COMINT communications intelligence
COMSEC communications security
CONARC Continental Army Command
CSA Chief of Staff of the Army
CONUS Continental United States
DCSINT Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
DOD Department of Defense

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ECM electronic countermeasures
ELINT electronic intelligence
ETO European Theater of Operations
ETOUSA European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army (World War II)
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
FORSCOM Forces Command
G-2 Military Intelligence
G-3 Military Operations
GARDEN PLOT domestic intelligence collection plan (1960s)
GHQ General Headquarters
HUMINT human intelligence
IBM International Business Machines
INSCOM United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
IOSS Intelligence Organization and Stationing Study
IRR Investigative Records Repository
J-2 joint intelligence officer
JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff
JIC Joint Intelligence Committee
JICPOA Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area
LANTERN SPIKE domestic intelligence collection plan (1960s)
MACOM major Army command
MACV Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
MAGIC decrypts of Japanese diplomatic messages
MASINT measurement and signature intelligence
MDW Military District of Washington
MI Military Intelligence
MID Military Intelligence Division
MITC Military Intelligence Training Center
MIORC Military Intelligence Officers Reserve Corps
MIS Military Intelligence Service
MTO Mediterranean Theater of Operations
NATO North African Theater of Operations (World War II); North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATOUSA North African Theater of Operations, U.S. Army
NSA National Security Agency
NSC National Security Council
OACSI Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence
ONI Office of Naval Intelligence
OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPFOR opposing forces
OSS Office of Strategic Services
PEARL intelligence derived from low-level enemy encrypted communications (World War II)

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PHOENIX program to target Viet Cong infrastructure
POA Pacific Ocean Area (World War II)
RAGFOR Radio Group, Forward
ROAD Reorganization Objective Army Division
RRU radio research unit
SECURITY SHIELD project to improve U.S. counterintelligence
SIAM signal information and monitoring
SIGABA World War II high-level cipher machine
SIGINT signals intelligence
SIGROD machine cipher device
SIS Signal Intelligence Service
SSA Signal Security Agency
SSO Special Security Officer
STEADFAST 1973 Army reorganization project
SWPA South West Pacific Area (World War II)
TD table of distribution
TDA table of distribution and allowances
TEMPEST threat from electronic emissions
THUMB intelligence derived from radio intelligence
TOE table of organization and equipment
TRADOC U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command
ULTRA high-grade communications intelligence (World War II)
USAFFE U.S. Army Forces, Far East
USAINTA U.S. Army Intelligence Agency
USAINTC U.S. Army Intelligence Command
USAREUR U.S. Army Europe
USARPAC U.S. Army, Pacific
USASA U.S. Army Security Agency
USASATC&S U.S. Army Security Agency Training Center and School
USCIB U.S. Communications Intelligence Board
WAC Womens' Army Corps
WDGS War Department General Staff
YMCA Young Men's Christian Association


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