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Glossary
further identified
in the documents
BPP: Border Patrol Police
Bundy, McGeorge: (See biography)
Bundy, William P.: (See biography)
Buu: Tran Quoc Buu, leader of
Vietnamese Confederation of
Labor under Diem
Can: Ngo Dinh Can, brother of
Ngo Dinh Diem
Can Lao: semisecret South Vietnamese
party organized by Ngo
Ball: George W. Ball, Under Dinh Nhu and Ngo Dinh Can
Secretary of State, 1961-66 CAP: combat air patrol; prefix
Bao Dai: Emperor of Vietnam, used to designate White House
1932-55 cablegrams sent through CIA
BAR: Browning automatic rifle channel
Barrel Roll: Code name for op- CAS: code name for Central Ineration,
U.S. air strikes against telligence Agency; not otherwise
Laotian infiltration routes and explained in the documents
facilities CAT: Civil Air Transport, air-
B-57: name of U.S. bomber line based on Taiwan
Bidault: Georges Bidault, French CHICOM: Chinese Communist
Minister of Foreign Affairs, CHIN AT: Chinese Nationalist
1953-54 CHMAAG: Chief, Military As-
Bienhoa: airfield near Saigon, at- sistance Advisory Group
tacked by Vietcong October 31, CI: counterinsurgency
1964 ClAP: Inter-American Commitblack
radio: in psychological tee for the Alliance for Progress
warfare, broadcasts by one side CINCPAC: Commander in
that are disguised as broadcasts Chief, Pacific
for the other CIO: Central Intelligence Orga-
BLT: battalion landing team nizations (South Vietnam)
Blue Springs: apparently a covert CJCS: Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
operation not further identified Staff
in study of the documents Collins: General J. Lawton Col-
Bohlen: Charles E. Bohlen, Am- lins, Presidential representative
bassador to France, 1962-68 in South Vietnam, 1954-55
Bonnet: Henri Bonnet, French COMUSMACV: Commander,
Ambassador to U.S., 1944-55 U.S. Military Assistance Combonze:
Buddhist monk mand, Vietnam
Box Top: apparently a code COS: chief of station, CIA
name for a covert operation not country team: council of senior
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AA: Air America; or antiaircraft
AAA: antiaircraft artillery
ABM: antiballistic missile
AFB: Air Force Base
AID: Agency for International
Development
Airops: air operations
AMB: ambassador
ARVN: Army of the Republic of
(South) Vietnam
ASA: (U.S.) Army Security
Agency
ASAP: as soon as possible
ASW: antisubmarine warfare
U.S. officials in South Vietnam,
including ambassador, commander
of American forces,
CIA chief, and others
CTZ: corps tactical zone
CY: calendar year
Deptel: (State) Department telegram
DePuy: Lieutenant General William
E. DePuy, U.S. Military
Assistance Command, Vietnam,
1964-66
De Soto patrols: U.S. destroyer
patrols in Tonkin Gulf
DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency
Diem, Ngo Dinh: (See biography)
Dinh: Major General Ton That
Dinh, military governor of Saigon,
1963
DMZ: Demilitarized Zone
Dobrynin: Anatoly F. Dobrynin,
USSR Ambassador to the U.S.,
1961-
Doc: document
DaD: Department of Defense
Don: Major General Tran Van
Don, Chief of Staff, South Vietnamese
armed forces, 1963; Defense
Minister 1963-64; Deputy
Commander in Chief, 1964
Dong, Ph am Van: (See biography)
DPM: draft presidential memo
DRV: Democratic Republic of
(North) Vietnam
Duan, Le: (See biography)
Dulles: Allen W. Dulles, director
of Central Intelligence, 1953-61;
or John Foster Dulles, Secretary
of State, 1952-59
Durbrow: Elbridge Durbrow,
U.S. Ambassador to Saigon,
1957-61
E and E: escape and evasion
ECM: electronic countermeasures
EDC: European Defense Community
Eden: Anthony Eden, Earl of
Avon, Deputy Prime Minister
and Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, UK, 1951-55;
Prime Minister, 1955-57
Ely: General Paul Ely, French
commander in Indochina, 1954-
55
Embtel: U.S. embassy telegram
EPTEL: apparently a typographical
error for Deptel or Septe1,
q.V.
FAL: Lao armed forces
FAR: Royal Armed Forces (of
Laos)
Farmgate: clandestine U.S. Air
Force strike unit in Vietnam
(1964)
FEC: French Expeditionary
Corps
Felt: Admiral Harry D. Felt,
Commander in Chief, Pacific,
1958-64
Flaming Dart: code name of operations,
reprisals for attacks on
U.S. installations
FaA: Foreign Operations Administration
Forrestal, Michael V.: (See biography)
Fulbright: J. W. Fulbright, chairman,
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee; U.S. Senator (D.-
Ark.), 1945-
FWMA: Free World Military
Assistance
FWMAF: Free World Military
Assistance Force
FY: fiscal year
FYI: for your information
Gardner: John W. Gardner, Secretary
of Health, Education and
Welfare, 1965-68
Giap: General Vo Nguyen Giap,
Commander in Chief of Vietminh
Army at time of defeat of
French at Dienbienphu (1954)
Gilpatric: Roswell L. Gilpatric,
Deputy Secretary of Defense,
1961-64
GNP: gross national product
G-3: U.S. Army General Staff
branch handling plans and operations
GVN: Government of (South)
Vietnam
Hardnose: code name, apparently
for covert project, not otherwise
identified in the documents
Harkins, Paul D.: (See biography)
Harriman: W. Averell Harriman,
Assistant, then Under Secretary
of State, 1961-65; Ambassador
at Large, 1965-68
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Heath: Donald R. Heath, U.S.
Ambassador to Cambodia and
Vietnam, 1952
Heinz: Vice Admiral Luther C.
Heinz, director Far East region,
office of Assistant Secretary of
Defense, 1960-63
Hieu: Ngo Trang Hieu, Minister
of Civic Action, South Vietnam,
1963
Hilsman, Roger: (See biography)
Hinh: Major General Nguyen
Van Hinh, chief of staff, South
Vietnamese Army; unsuccessful
rebel against Diem, 1954
HNC: High National Council
Ho: Ho Chi Minh, head of government,
North Vietnam, 1954-
69 Hop Tac plan: operation planned
to clear Saigon and its surroundings
Huong: Tran Van Huong, head
of government, South Vietnam,
1964-65
ICA: International Cooperation
Administration
ICC: International Control Commission
for Vietnam
Corps: military region, five
northern provinces of South
Vietnam
IDA: Institute for Defense
Analyses
Il Corps: military region in South
Vietnam, Central Highlands and
Central Coastal area
III Corps: military region in
South Vietnam, provinces surrounding
Saigon
in ref.: in reference to
ISA: International Security
Agency
IV Corps: military region, southern
Vietnam
JCS: Joint Chiefs of Staff
JCSM: Joint Chiefs of Staff
memorandum
Johnson: U. Alexis Johnson,
Deputy Under Secretary of
State, 1961-64, 1965-66; deputy
to Ambassador Maxwell D.
Taylor, 1964-65
Joint Chiefs: Joint Chiefs of
Staff
Jorden Report: internal State
Department paper by William J.
Jorden, 1964
Jungle Jim: aerial commando
operations
Katzenbach: Nicholas deB. Katzenbach,
Under Secretary of
State, 1966-68
Khanh, Nguyen: (See biography)
Khiem: General Tran Thien
Khiem, executive officer, South
Vietnamese Joint General Staff,
1963; Defense Minister and
Commander in Chief, 1964
KIA: killed in action
Kim: Major General Le Van
Kim, leading figure in post-Diem
government in South Vietnam
Krulak, Victor H.: (See biography)
Ky: Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky,
head of government, South Vietnam,
1965-67; Vice-President,
1967-
Kyes: Roger M. Kyes, Deputy
Secretary of Defense, 1953-54
Laniel: Joseph Laniel, Premier of
France, 1953-54
Lansdale, Edward G.: (See biography)
Lao Dong: Communist party in
North Vietnam
Leaping Lena: code name for an
allied operation not further identified
in the documents
Liberation Front: National Liberation
Front
Lippmann: Walter Lippmann,
newspaper columnist
LOC: lines of communication
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.: (See
biography)
Lucky Dragon: code Lame, apparently,
for a covert allied operation
in Vietnam, not otherwise
identified
MAAG: Military Assistance Advisory
Group
MAC: Military Assistance Command
MacArthur: Douglas MacArthur
II, counselor, State Department,
1953-56
MACV: Military Assistance
Command, Vietnam
Mansfield: Senator Mike Mansfield
(D.-Mont.)
MAP: Military Assistance Program
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Marops: maritime operations
Mau: Vu Van Mau, Foreign
Minister, South Vietnam till fall
of Diem (1963)
McCone: John A. McCone, director
of Central Intelligence,
1961-65
McNamara: Robert S. McNamara,
Secretary of Defense,
1961-68
McNaughton, John T.: (See
biography)
MDAP: Mutual Defense Assistance
Program
Mecklin: John M. Mecklin, public
affairs officer, U.S. Embassy,
Saigon, 1962-64
MEF: Marine Expeditionary
Force
Mendes: Pierre Mendes-France,
Premier of France, 1954-55
Minh: General Duong Van Minh
("Big Minh"), head of government,
South Vietnam, 1963-64
Molotov: V. M. Molotov, Soviet
Minister for Foreign Affairs,
1953-56
Morgan: Thomas E. Morgan,
chairman, House Foreign Affairs
Committee, 1954-
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
Navarre: General Henri Navarre,
Commander in Chief, French
forces in Indochina, 1953-54
NFLSV: National Front for the
Liberation of South Vietnam
Ngo family: family of Ngo Dinh
Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu
Nhu, Madame: wife of Ngo
Dinh Nhu
Nhu, Ngo Dinh: (See biography)
NIE: National Intelligence Estimate
Nitze: Paul H. Nitze, Secretary
of the Navy, Deputy Secretary
of Defense
NLF: National Liberation Front
Nolting: Frederick E. ("Fritz")
Nolting, U.S. Ambassador in
Saigon, 1961-63
Norstad: General Lauris Norstad,
air deputy, SHAPE, 1953-56;
commander, SHAPE, 1956-63
NSA: National Security Agency
NSAM: National Security Agency
memorandum
NSC: National Security Council
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NVA: North Vietnamese Army
NVN: North Vietnam
OB: Operation Brotherhood
OEEC: Organization for European
Economic Cooperation
Opcon: Operations Control
Oplan: operation plan
ops: operations
OSD: Office of the Secretary of
Defense
PACOM: Pacific Command
Para: paragraph
PARU: Police Aerial Resupply
Unit
PAVN: People's Army of
(North) Vietnam
PB: Planning Board
PBR: river patrol boat
PDJ: Plaine des Jarres
PF: Popular Forces
PI: Philippine Islands
Pierce Arrow: code name for
U.S. reprisal bombing of North
Vietnam after the Tonkin Gulf
incidents
PL: Pathet Lao
Pleven: Rene Pleven, French
Minister of National Defense,
1953, 1954
POL: petroleum, oil, lubricants
POLAD: political adviser (to
Commander in Chief, Pacific)
Porter: William J. Porter, U.S.
Deputy Ambassador (with rank
of Ambassador) in Saigon,
1965-67
psyops: psychological operations
PTF: fast patrol boat
Quang: Trich Tri Quang, South
Vietnamese Buddhist leader
Quat: Phan Huy Quat, head of
government, South Vietnam,
1965
Queen Bee: code name for an
allied operation not otherwise
identified in the documents
QTE: quote
Radford: Admiral Arthur W.
Radford, chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff, 1953-57
RAS: river assault squadron
RD: Revolutionary Development;
or Rural Development
RECCE: reconnaissance
REF: reference, meaning "the
document referred to"
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Ref tel: in reference to your telegram,
or telegram referred to
Resor: Stanley R. Resor, Secretary
of the Army, 1965-
RF: Regional Forces
Rice: Edward E. Rice, U.S. Consul
General in Hong Kong,
1963-67
RLAF: Royal Laotian Air Force
RLG: Royal Laotian Government
RL T: regimental landing team
ROK: Republic of (South)
Korea
Rolling Thunder: code name of
operation, sustained bombing of
North Vietnam
Rostow: Walt W. Rostow, Presidential
assistant for national security,
1961; chairman, State
Department Policy Planning
Council, 1961-66
rpt: repeat
RSM: Robert S. McNamara
RSSZ: Rungsat Special Zone
RTA: Royal Thai Army
RT-28: name of U.S. aircraft
Rusk: Dean Rusk, Secretary of
State, 1961-69
RVN: Republic of (South) Vietnam
RVNAF: Republic of (South)
Vietnam Air Force or armed
forces
RVNF: Republic of (South)
Vietnam forces
SAC: Strategic Air Command
SAM: surface-to-air missile
SAR: search and rescue
Sarit: Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat,
Prime Minister of Thailand,
1958-63
SEA: Southeast Asia
Seaborn, J. Blair: (See biography)
SEATO: Southeast Asia Treaty
Organization
Sec Def: Secretary of Defense
Septel: separate telegram
Sharp, U. S. Grant: (See biography)
Sihanouk: Prince Norodom Sihanouk,
head of state, Cambodia,
1960-70
SMM: Saigon Military Mission
SNIE: Special National Intelligence
Estimate
Souvanna: Prince
Phouma, Prime Minister of
Laos, 1951-
Stassen: Harold Stassen, Governor
of Minnesota, 1938-45; director,
Foreign Operations Administration,
1953-55
State: State Department
STC: Security Training Center
Stilwell: Lieutenant General
Richard G. Stilwell, assistant to
Chief of Staff, Operations, Military
Assistance Command, Vietnam,
1963-64
SVN: South Vietnam
SVNese: South Vietnamese
TAOR: tactical area of responsibility
Taylor, Maxwell D.: (See biography)
TERM: Temporary Equipment
Recovery Mission
Tet: lunar new year; 1968 offensive
during Tet
TF: task force
Thang: General Nguyen Ngoc
Thang, director, Revolutionary
Development, South Vietnam
Thao: Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao
(executed 1965 for part in attempted
South Vietnamese
coups, 1964-65)
Thieu: Lieutenant General Nguyen
Van Thieu, President of
South Vietnam. 1967-
34-A: operation plan, 1964, covering
covert ground, air and sea
raids against North Vietnam
Tho: Nguyen Ngoc Tho, head
of government, South Vietnam,
1963-64
Thuan: Nguyen Dinh Thuan,
holder of high positions in Diem
government, South Vietnam
TO&E: table of organization and
equipment
Triangle: code name for an allied
operation not otherwise identified
in the documents
TRIM: Training Relations and
Instruction Mission
Trueheart: William C. Trueheart,
deputy to Ambassador Nolting,
1961-63
T-28: name of U.S. fighterbomber
UK: United Kingdom
Unger: Leonard Unger, U.S. Ambassador
to Laos, 1962-64;
Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State, 1965-67
UNO: United Nations Organization
UNQTE: unquote
USAF: United States Air Force
USG: United States Government
USIA: United States Information
Agency
USIB: United States Intelligence
Board
USIS: United States Information
Service
USOM: United States Operations
Mission (U.S. economic
aid apparatus in Saigon)
UW: unconventional warfare
Vance: Cyrus R. Vance, Deputy
Secretary of Defense, 1964-67;
troubleshooter for President
Johnson, 1967-69
VC: Vietcong
VM: Vietminh
VN: Vietnam
VNAF: (South) Vietnamese Air
Force or armed forces
VNese: Vietnamese
VNSF: (South) Vietnamese Special
Forces
VOA: Voice of America
Westmoreland, William c.: (See
biography)
Westy: see Westmoreland
Wheeler, Earle G.: (See biography)
white radio: in psychological
warfare, broadcasts openly attributed
to the side transmitting
them
Williams: Lieutenant General
Samuel T. Williams, U.S. military
adviser in South Vietnam,
1955-60
Wilson: Charles E. Wilson, Secretary
of Defense, 1953-57
WIT: walkie-talkie
Yankee Team: phase of the Indochina
bombing operation
YT: see Yankee Team
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