Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency

Abbreviations

xxi Abbreviations AMA American Medical Association APA Advance Political Action (Teams) APC Accelerated Pacification Campaign ARVN Army of the Republic of [South] Vietnam C-G Census-Grievance CG Civil Guard [predecessor of Regional Forces] CIA Central Intelligence Agency CIDG Citizens’ [later, Civilian] Irregular Defense Groups CINCPAC Commander in chief Pacific CIO [GVN] Central Intelligence Organization CORDS [MACV] Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support COS Chief of station COSVN Central Office for South Vietnam [the communist Lao Dong Party element representing Hanoi in South Vietnam] CSD Combined Studies Division [also, Military Operations Section] C-T Counter-Terror DCI Director of Central Intelligence DCOS Deputy chief of station DDP Deputy director for Plans DGNP Director general of National Police DIOCC District Intelligence and Operations Coordination Center DMZ Demilitarized zone, at the 17th parallel DOD Department of Defense FEC French Expeditionary Corps FP Force Populaire xxii GVN Government of [South] Vietnam HES Hamlet Evaluation System ICA International Cooperation Administration [a USAID predecessor] ICEX Intelligence Collection and Exploitation staff [of the U.S. Mission in Saigon] IOD Intelligence Operations Division [of the CIA Station in Saigon] JGS [ARVN] Joint General Staff MAAG Military Assistance Advisory Group MACV Military Assistance Command, Vietnam [succeeded MAAG] MOS Military Operations Section [of the CIA Station in Saigon] MR Military Region MRD Ministry of Revolutionary Development [in Vietnamese, Ministry of Rural Construction] MSS [ARVN] Military Security Service NIC National Interrogation Center NICC [Joint GVN-U.S.] National Intelligence Coordination Center NLF National Liberation Front NPFF National Police Field Force NRM National Revolutionary Movement OB Operation Brotherhood OCO Office of Civil Operations [of the U.S. Mission in Saigon] PAS Political Action Section [of the CIA Station in Saigon; earlier, POS] PAT People’s Action Team [later, Revolutionary Development Cadre Group] PF Popular Forces PIC Provincial Interrogation Center POS Political Operations Section [of the CIA Station in Saigon] PRG Provisional Revolutionary Government PRU Provincial Reconnaissance Unit [earlier, CounterTerror Team] PSB Police Special Branch Abbreviations xxiii PSDF People’s Self-Defense Forces RD Revolutionary Development [GVN title: Rural Construction] RDCG Revolutionary Development Cadre group [final nomenclature, after PAT and RDC Team; also occasionally referred to as Rural Development People’s Group (RDPG)] RF Regional Forces ROIC Regional officer in charge SAVA Special assistant [to the DCI] for Vietnam Affairs SDC Self-Defense Corps [predecessor of PF] SMM Saigon Military Mission USAID U.S. Agency for International Development USIS U.S. Information Service USOM U.S. Operations Mission [country office of USAID] USSF U.S. Special Forces VC Viet Cong VCI Viet Cong infrastructure VIS [South] Vietnam Information Service VNO Vietnam Operations [element in CIA Headquarters] VNQDD Vietnam Quoc Dan Dang [a nationalist and anticommunist political party] VNSF [South] Vietnam Special Forces VVL Vietnam Veterans’ League Abbreviations ...