ORA Office of Research and Analysis
ORE Office of Reports and Estimates
OSINT open-source intelligence
OSO Office of Special Operations
OSS Office of Strategic Services
PD presidential directive
PDB president’s daily brief
PDD presidential decision directive
PFIAB President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
PHOTINT photographic intelligence
PHSAC President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council
PICL president’s intelligence check list
PRC People’s Republic of China
PRD presidential review directive
PRM presidential review memoranda
PSYWAR psychological warfare
RFE Radio Free Europe
RL Radio Liberty
SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SAR synthetic aperture radar
SASC Senate Armed Services Committee
SAT Southern Air Transport
SCAP Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers
SCIF Special Compartmented Intelligence Facility
SD IStrategic Defense Initiative
SDIO Strategic Defense Initiative Office
SEIB senior executive intelligence brief
SFRC Senate Foreign Relations Committee
SIG Senior Interdepartmental Group
SIGINT signals intelligence
SIS Special Intelligence Service
SLBM submarine-launched ballistic missile
SNIE special national intelligence estimate
SOE Special Operations Executive
SSC ISenate Select Committee on Intelligence
START Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
SVRR Sluzhba Vneshney Rasvedki Rossii
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