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GLOSSARY
ACLU American Civil Liberties Union
ACSI Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence
agency Central Intelligence Agency
Alpha 184 Team Operation Detachment Alpha 184 Team.
Special Forces Field Training Team in specialized civilian disguise selected from 20th SFG
AFSCME Association of Federal, State, County and Municipal
Employees Union
agent provocateur covert operative used to infiltrate a targeted
group and influence its activity
AUTOVON first generation fax machine-state of the art in
1967
ASA Army Security Agency
asset government independent contract agent whose actions
may be officially denied
behind the fence operation covert, officially deniable operations
body mass assassin's human target area-the chest area
BOP Black Organizing Project (companion organization of
the Invaders)
bureau Federal Bureau of Investigation
center mass another term for "body mass" (see above)
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CIAB Counterintelligence Analysis Board
CINCSTRIKE Commander-in-Chief U.S. Strike Command
C.O. Commanding Officer
COINTELPRO-FBI counterintelligence program aimed at
targeted dissenting/protest groups.
COME Community on the Move for Equality (coalition of labor
and civil rights groups in Memphis formed at the time of the sanitation workers strike spearheaded by an interracial committee organized by local clergy)
COMINFIL FBI designation for a communist infiltration
investigation of a targeted group
committee House of Representatives Select Committee on
Assassinations
CONUS Continental United States
D.A. District Attorney
DEA Drug Enforcement Agency
DEFCON Acronym for national security emergency with
seriousness expressed in ascending order, e.g. DEFCON 2, 3, 4
DIA Defense Intelligence Agency
ELINT electronic intelligence surveillance
FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation
HSCA House of Representatives Select Committee on
Assassinations
HUMINT Human Intelligence Source (informer)
IEOC Intelligence Emergency Operation Center-army
intelligence communications and deployment centre which was established
in an area where civil unrest was anticipated
Invaders small militant black organizing group in Memphis,
oriented toward self-help
IRR Investigative Records Repository-army intelligence records
repository at Fort Holabird where intelligence files on civilians were kept
LAWS light anti-tank weapon rockets
LL&L Liberto, Liberto & Latch (produce company owned by
Frank C. Liberto )
MIGs Military Intelligence Groups (counterintelligence)
MPD Memphis Police Department
NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People
NAS Millington Naval Air Station
NCNP National Conference for New Politics
NLF National Liberation Front
NSA National Security Agency
ONI Office of Naval Intelligence
Operation CHAOS CIA program for the collection of
information on citizens and groups through the interception and reading of mail, and the placement of informants and covert operators in dissenting organizations
Operation MINARET NSA watch-list program collecting
information on individuals and organizations involved in civil disturbances, antiwar movements and military deserters
OS Office of Security-department in CIA from which a variety
of super secret covert operations was mounted, often involving members of organized crime
Project MERRIMAC CIA SOG project which focused on
infiltration of and spying on ten major peace and civil
rights groups
Project RESISTANCE 1967 OS project designed to infiltrate
meetings of antiwar protestors, recruit informants and report on black student activities in cooperation with local
police
Psy Ops Psychological Operations
recon. reconnaissance
SAC FBI Special Agent in Charge-ranking officer in any field
office
SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SFG Special Forces Group a.k.a. the Green Berets
SNCC Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee
SOG Special Operations Group-small covert often interservice
operations groups formed for a particular purpose
TACT (TAC) emergency tactical units deployed in Memphis at
the time of the sanitation workers strike which consisted of twelve men in three or four vehicles
TBI Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
USAINTC U .S. Army Intelligence Command (the overall army
intelligence organization)
USIB United States Intelligence Board
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