Historical Dictionary of United States Intelligence

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DMA Defense Mapping Agency
DN Idirector of national intelligence
DO Directorate of Operations
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DP Directorate of Plans
DS Bureau of Diplomatic Security
DSS Defense Security Service
DSS Diplomatic Security Service
DS&T Directorate of Science and Technology
ELINT electronic intelligence
EO executive order
EPIC El Paso Intelligence Center
ERTS Earth Resources Technology Satellite
EXDIR/ICA executive director for intelligence community affairs
EXCOM executive committee
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FARA Foreign Agents Registration Act
FB IFederal Bureau of Investigation
FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service
FCO Foreign and Commonwealth Office
FinCEN Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FISA Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
FOIA Freedom of Information Act
FSB Federal Security Service (Russian Federation)
FSLN Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional
GAO Government Accounting Office
GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters
GDIP General Defense Intelligence Program
GEOINT geospatial intelligence
GRU Glavnoe Razvedyvatel’noe Upravlenie
(Chief Intelligence Directorate)
HPSC IHouse Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
HSPD homeland security presidential directive
HUAC House Un-American Activities Committee
HUMINT human intelligence
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
IC intelligence community

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