AFSA | Armed Forces Security [SIGINT] Agency [USA] |
AKEL | Cyprus Communist Party |
Amtorg | American-Soviet Trading Corporation, New York |
ASA | Army Security [SIGINT] Agency [USA] |
AVH | Hungarian security and intelligence agency |
AVO | predecessor of AVH |
BfV | FRG security service |
BND | FRG foreign intelligence agency |
CDU | Christian Democratic Union [FRG] |
Cheka | All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage: predecessor KGB (1917-22) |
CIA | Central Intelligence Agency [USA] |
COCOM | Coordinating Committee for East-West Trade |
Comecon | [Soviet Bloc] Council for Mutual Economic Aid |
Comintern | Communist International |
CPC | Christian Peace Conference |
CPC | Communist Party of Canada |
CPCz | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
CPGB | Communist Party of Great Britain |
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] |
DGS | Portuguese security service |
DGSE | French foreign intelligence service |
DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency [USA] |
DLB | dead letter-box |
DRG | Soviet sabotage and intelligence group |
DS | Bulgarian security and intelligence service |
DST | French security service |
F Line | Special Actions department in KGB residencies |
FAPSI | Russian (post-Soviet) SIGINT agency |
FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation [USA] |
FCD | First Chief [Foreign Intelligence] Directorate, KGB |
FCO | Foreign and Commonwealth Office [UK] |
FRG | Federal Republic of Germany |
GCHQ | Government Communications Head-Quarters [British SIGINT Agency] |
GDR | German Democratic Republic |
GPU | Soviet security and intelligence service (within NKVD, 1922-3) |
GRU | Soviet Military Intelligence |
GUGB | Soviet security and intelligence service (within NKVD, 1943-43) |
Gulag | Labour Camps Directorate |
HUMINT | intelligence from human sources (espionage) |
HVA | GDR foreign intelligence service |
ICBM | intercontinental ballistic missile |
IMINT | imagery intelligence |
INO | foreign intelligence department of Cheka/GPU/OGPU/ GUGB, 1920-1941; predecessor of INU |
INU | foreign intelligence directorate of NKGB/GUGB/MGB, 1941-54; predecessor of FCD |
IRA | Irish Republican Army |
JIC | Joint Intelligence Committee [UK] |
K-231 | club of former political prisoners jailed under Article 231 of the Czechoslovak criminal code |
KAN | Club of Non-Party Activists [Czechoslovakia] |
KGB | Soviet security and intelligence service (1954-1991) |
KHAD | Afghan security service |
KI | Soviet foreign intelligence agency, initially combining foreign intelligence directorates of MGB and GRU (1947-51) |
KKE | Greek Communist Party |
KKE-es | breakaway Eurocommunist Greek Communist Party |
KOR | Workers Defence Committee [Poland] |
KP | Austrian Communist Party |
KR Line | Counter-intelligence department in KGB residencies |
LLB | live letter box |
MGB | Soviet Ministry of State Security (1946-54) |
MGIMO | Moscow State Institute for International Relations |
MI5 | British security service |
MI6 | alternative designation for SIS [UK] |
MOR | Monarchist Association of Central Russia (The Trust) |
N Line | Illegal support department in KGB residencies |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
NKGB | Peoples Commisariat for State Security (Soviet security and intelligence service, 1941 and 1943-6) |
NKVD | Peoples Commisariat for Internal Affairs (incorporated state |
security, 1922-3, 1934-43) |
NSA | National Security [SIGINT] Agency [USA] |
NSC | National Security Council [USA] |
NSZRiS | Peoples [anti-Bolshevik] Union for Defence of Country and Freedom |
NTS | National Labour Alliance (Soviet migr social-democratic movement) |
Okhrana | Tsarist security service, 1881-1917 |
OMS | Comintern International Liaison Department |
OSS | Office of Strategic Services [USA] |
OT | Operational Technical Support (FCD) |
OUN | Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists |
OZNA | Yugoslav security and intelligence service |
PCF | French Communist Party |
PCI | Italian Communist Party |
PCP | Portuguese Communist Party |
PFLP | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine |
PIDE | Portuguese Liberation Organization |