MAD Militärischer Abschirmdienst (Military
Counterintelligence Service)
MfS Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Ministry of State
Security)
MGB Ministerstvo Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Soviet
Ministry of State Security)
MI5 British Security Service
MI6 British Secret Intelligence Service
MIB Mainzer Informationsbüro (Mainz Information Office)
MVD Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del (Soviet Ministry of
Internal Affairs)
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NKFD Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland (National
Committee for Free Germany)
NKGB Narodnyy Komissariat Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
(Soviet People’s Commissariat of State Security)
NKVD Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (Soviet
People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs)
NOB Nachrichtenoffizier Berlin (Intelligence Officer Berlin)
NPD Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (National
Democratic Party of Germany)
NSA National Security Agency (U.S.)
NVA Nationale Volksarmee (National People’s Army)
OG Operationsgebiet (operational area); Organisation
Gehlen (Gehlen Organization)
OGPU Obyedinennoe Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe
Upravleniye (Soviet Unified State Political Directorate)
OibE Offizier im besonderen Einsatz (officer in special
deployment)
OMS Comintern International Liaison Department
OPC Office of Policy Coordination (U.S.)
OSS Office of Strategic Services (U.S.)
OV Operativer Vorgang (operational case)
PDS Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus (Party of
Democratic Socialism)
RAF Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction)
RIAS Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor (Radio in the
American Sector)
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