Read The World Was Going Our Way Online
Authors: Christopher Andrew
Tags: #Biographies & Memoirs, #True Accounts, #Espionage, #History, #Europe, #Ireland, #Military, #Intelligence & Espionage, #Modern (16th-21st Centuries), #20th Century, #Russia, #World
AFSA | Armed Forces Security [SIGINT] Agency (USA) |
ANC | African National Congress |
ARA | American Relief Association |
ASA | Army Security [SIGINT] Agency (USA) |
AVH | Hungarian security and intelligence agency |
AVO | predecessor of AVH |
AWACS | airborne warning and control system |
BfV | security service (FRG) |
BND | foreign intelligence agency (FRG) |
BNS | Bureau of National Security (Syria) |
CCP | Chinese Communist Party |
CDR | Committee for the Defence of the Revolution (Cuba) |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union (FRG) |
Centre | HQ of the KGB (or FCD) and their predecessors |
Cheka | Vserossiiskaya Chrezvychainaya Komissiya po Borbe s Kontrrevolyutsiei i Sabotazhem: All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (predecessor of KGB (1917-22)) |
CI | counter-intelligence |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency (USA) |
CISPES | Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (USA) |
COCOM | Coordinating Committee for East-West Trade (NATO and Japan) |
Comecon | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Soviet bloc) |
Comintern | Communist (Third) International |
CPC | Christian Peace Conference |
CPC | Communist Party of Canada |
CPCz | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
CPGB | Communist Party of Great Britain |
CPI | Communist Party of India |
CPJ | Communist Party of Japan |
CPM | Communist Party of India, Marxist |
CPSA | Communist Party of South Africa (later SACP) |
CPSU | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
CPUSA | Communist Party of the United States of America |
CSU | Christian Social Union (FRG; ally of CDU) |
DCI | Director of Central Intelligence (USA) |
Derg | Co-ordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police and National Guard (Ethiopia) |
DGI | Dirección General de Inteligencia (Cuba) |
DGS | Portuguese security service |
DGSE | French foreign intelligence service |
DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency (USA) |
DISA | Direção de Informação e Seguranca de Angola |
DLB | dead letter-box |
DRG | diversionnye razvedyvatelnye gruppy : Soviet sabotage and intelligence groups |
DRU | Dirección Revolucionaria Unida (El Salvador) |
DS | Bulgarian security and intelligence service |
DST | French security service |
EPS | Ejército Popular Sandinista (Nicaragua) |
F Line | ‘Special Actions’ department in KGB residencies |
FAPSI | Federalnoye Agentsvo Pravitelstvennoi Sviazi i Informatsii: Russian (post-Soviet) SIGINT agency |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA) |
FCD | First Chief [Foreign Intelligence] Directorate, KGB |
FCO | Foreign and Commonwealth Office (UK) |
FLN | Front de Libération Nationale (Algeria) |
FMLN | Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional (El Salvador) |
FNLA | Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola |
FRAP | Frente de Acción Popular (Chile) |
FRELIMO | Frente de Libertação de Moçambique |
FRG | Federal Republic of Germany |
FSB | Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti: Russian security and intelligence service |
FSLN | Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (Nicaragua) |
GCHQ | Government Communications Head-Quarters (British SIGINT Agency) |
GDR | German Democratic Republic |
GKNT | Gosudarstvennyi Komitet po Nauke i Tekhnologii: State Committee for Science and Technology |
GPU | Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie: Soviet security and intelligence service (within NKVD, 1922-23) |
GRU | Glavnoe Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenie: Soviet Military Intelligence |
GUGB | Glavnoe Upravlenie Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti: Soviet security and intelligence service (within NKVD, 1934-43) |
Gulag | Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei: Labour Camps Directorate |
HUMINT | intelligence from human sources (espionage) |
HVA | GDR foreign intelligence service |
ICBM | intercontinental ballistic missile |
ICP | Iraqi Communist Party |
IDF | Israeli Defence Force |
IMINT | imagery intelligence |
INO | Inostrannyi Otdel: foreign intelligence department of Cheka/GPU/OGPU/GUGB, 1920-41; predecessor of INU |
INU | Inostrannoe Upravlenie: foreign intelligence directorate of NKGB/GUGB/MGB, 1941-47 |
IRA | Irish Republican Army |
ISC | Intelligence and Security Committee (UK) |
ISI | Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence |
JCP | Japanese Communist Party |
JIC | Joint Intelligence Committee (UK) |
JSP | Japanese Socialist Party |
KDP | Kurdistan Democratic Party |
KGB | Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti: Soviet security and intelligence service (1954-91) |
KHAD | Afghan security service |
KI | Komitet Informatsii: Soviet foreign intelligence agency (1947-51), initially combining foreign intelligence directorates of MGB and GRU |
KMT | Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalists) |
Komsomol | Communist Youth League |
KR Line | Counter-intelligence department in KGB residencies |
KUTV | Kommunisticheskii Universitet Trudiashchikhsia Vostoka: Communist University of the Toilers of the East |
LDP | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
LLB | live letter-box |
MEISON | All-Ethiopian Socialist Movement |
MGB | Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti: Soviet Ministry of State Security (1946-54) |
MGIMO | Moscow State Institute for International Relations |
MI5 | UK security service |
MI6 | alternative designation for SIS (UK) |
MITI | Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan) |
MLSh | Mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya Shkola: International Lenin School |
MPLA | Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola |
MVD | Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del: Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs |
N Line | illegal support department in KGB residencies |
NAM | Non-Aligned Movement |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
NKGB | Narodnyi Kommissariat Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti: Soviet security and intelligence service (1941-46; within NKVD, 1941-43) |
NKVD | Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del: People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (incorporated state security, 1922-23, 1934-43) |
NPUP | National Progressive Unionist Party (Egypt) |
NSA | National Security [SIGINT] Agency (USA) |
NSC | National Security Council (USA) |
NSS | National Security Service (Somalia) |
NSZRiS | People’s [anti-Bolshevik] Union for Defence of Country and Freedom |
NTS | National Labour Alliance (Soviet émigré social-democratic movement) |
OAU | Organization of African Unity |
OGPU | Obedinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe |
Upravlenie: Soviet security and intelligence service, 1923-34) | |
Okhrana | Tsarist security service, 1881-1917 |
OMS | Comintern international liaison department |
OSS | Office of Strategic Services (USA) |
OT | Operational Technical Support (FCD) |
OUN | Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists |
OZNA | Yugoslav security and intelligence service; predecessor of UDBA |
PAIGC | Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde |
PCA | Algerian Communist Party |
PCF | French Communist Party |
PCI | Italian Communist Party |
PCP | Portuguese Communist Party |
PDP | Partido del Pueblo (Panama) |
PDPA | Afghan Communist Party |
PDRY | People’s Democratic Republic of [South] Yemen |
PFLP | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
PLO | Palestine Liberation Organization |
PPP | Pakistan People’s Party |
PR Line | political intelligence department in KGB residencies |
PRI | Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Mexico) |
PSOE | Spanish Socialist Party |
PUK | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan |
PUWP | Polish United Workers [Communist] Party |
RCMP | Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
RENAMO | Resistência Nacional Mocambicana |
RYAN | raketno-yadernoe napadenie (nuclear missile attack) |
SACP | South African Communist Party (previously CPSA) |
SADUM | Central Asian Spiritual Directorate of Muslims |
SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
SAM | Soviet surface-to-air missile |
SB | Polish security and intelligence service |
SCD | Second Chief [Internal Security and Counter-Intelligence] Directorate (KGB) |
SDECE | French foreign intelligence service; predecessor of DGSE |
SDI | US Strategic Defense Initiative (‘Star Wars’) |
SDR | Somali Democratic Republic |
SED | Socialist Unity [Communist] Party (GDR) |
SIGINT | intelligence derived from interception and analysis of signals |
SIN | Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (Peru) |
SIS | Secret Intelligence Service (UK) |
SK Line | Soviet colony department in KGB residencies |
SKP | Communist Party of Finland |
SNASP | Serviço Nacional de Segurança Popular (Mozambique) |
SNI | Serviço Nacional de Informações (Brazil) |
SOE | Special Operations Executive (UK) |
SPC | Sindh Provincial Committee |
SPD | Social Democratic Party (FRG) |
Spetsnaz | Soviet special forces |
SR | Socialist Revolutionary |
SRC | Supreme Revolutionary Council (Somalia) |
SRSP | Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party |
S&T | scientific and technological intelligence |
Stapo | Austrian police security service |
Stasi | GDR Ministry of State Security |
Stavka | Wartime Soviet GHQ/high command |
StB | Czechoslovak security and intelligence service |
SVR | Sluzhba Vneshnei Razvedki: Russian (post-Soviet) foreign intelligence service |
SWAPO | South-West Africa People’s Association |
TUC | Trades Union Congress (UK) |
UAR | United Arab Republic |
UB | Polish security and intelligence service; predecessor of SB |
UDBA | Yugoslav security and intelligence service |
UNITA | União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola |
VPK | Voenno-promyshlennaya Komissiya: Soviet Military Industrial Commission |
VTNRP | Voenno-Trudovaya Narodnaya Revolyutsionnaya Partiya: Military-Labour People’s Revolutionary Party; Russian name for anti-Chinese underground in XUAR |
VVR | Supreme Military Council (anti-Bolshevik Ukrainian underground) |