ABBREVIATIONSxii
MENA Middle East News Agency (Eg yptian, “semi-official”)
MER Middle East Record
MI Israeli [IDF] Military Intelligence
MiG Mikoyan-and-Gurevich (Soviet fighter aircraft)
MOD Ministry of Defence, UK
NA(PRO) National Archive (formerly Public Records Office), London.
NARA National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD
NPT (Nuclear) Non-Proliferation Treaty
NSC National Security Council
NYT New York Times
NVO Nezavisimoye Voyennoye Obozreniye (Nezavisimaya Gazeta military
supplement)
PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
SAM surface-to-air missile
SAR Soviet–American Relations: The Détente Years, 1969–
TA S S Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (central news agency)
UAR United Arab Republic (Eg ypt only, 1961–71)
UNGA United Nations General Assembly
UNSC United Nations Security Council
UPI United Press International
USAF United States Air Force
WSAG Washington Special Action Group
WSO Weapons System Officer
VKO Vozdushno-Kosmicheskaya Oborona