ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS•xiHFDF High-frequency direction finding
HVA Hauptverwaltung Aufkrarung (East German intelligence
service)
IIC Industrial Intelligence Centre
IPI Indian Political Intelligence Bureau
IRA Irish Republican Army
IRD Information Research Department
ISLD Inter-Services Liaison Department
JARIC Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre
JIB Joint Intelligence Bureau
JIC Joint Intelligence Committee
JSC Joint Security Control
JSG Joint Services Group
JSIC Joint Signals Intelligence Committee
JSRU Joint Speech Research Unit
JTAC Joint Terrorist Assessment Centre
JTLS Joint Technical Language Service
KCMG Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of
St. Michael and St. George
KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti (Soviet
intelligence service)
KPD Kommunist Partei Deutschland (German Communist
Party)
MBE Member of the Order of the British Empire
MCIS Ministerial Committee on the Intelligence Services
MEIC Middle East Intelligence Centre
MI5 British Security Service
MI6 British Secret Intelligence Service
MI(R) Military Intelligence (Research)
MP Member of Parliament
MPSB Metropolitan Police Special Branch
MRF Mobile Reconnaissance Force
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCIS National Criminal Intelligence Service
NCTSO National Counterterrorism Security Office
NID Naval Intelligence Division
NKVD Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennykh Del (Soviet
intelligence service)