Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence

Abbreviations and Acronyms

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Abwehr Literally, “Defense.” The German Intelligence

Service under the High Command of the

Armed Forces

AK Armija Krajowa (Polish Home Army)

AMTORG American–Russian Trading Company

AOD Administrative Organs Department of the

Communist Party Central Committee

ATTs Antiterroristicheskiy tsentr SNG (Antiterrorist

Center of the Commonwealth of Independent

States)

AVH Hungarian internal security/counterintelligence

service

BfV Bundesamt fur Verfassungschutz (Office for the

Protection of the Constitution, West German

counterintelligence service)

BND Bundesnachrichtendienst (West German foreign

intelligence service)

BO Boevaya Organizatsia (Battle Organization)

BSS British Security Service. SeeMI

CCPC Central Committee of the Communist Party

ChK or Cheka Chrevzuychanaya Komissiya po Borbe s

Kontrarevolutsei i Sabotazhem (Extraordinary

Commission to Combat Counterrevolution and

Sabotage)

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union

CPUSA Communist Party of the United States of America

Dalstroi Far Northern Construction Trust

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