Acronyms

ABAI American-British Agreed Intelligence

ABCI American-British-Canadian Intelligence

ACAI American-Canadian Agreed Intelligence

ADC Air Defence Command

ALE Alert

BJSM British Joint Staff Mission

BSP Basic Security Plan

CAS Chief of the Air Staff

CBNRC Communications Branch, National Research Council

CCOS Chair, Chiefs of Staff

CDC Cabinet Defence Committee

CGS Chief of the General Staff

CIA Central Intelligence Agency

CIG Central Intelligence Group

CIIB Current Intelligence Indications and Briefing Section

CJS Canadian Joint Staff

CJS(L) Canadian Joint Staff (London)

CJS(W) Canadian Joint Staff (Washington)

COMINT Communications Intelligence

CSC Chiefs of Staff Committee

CWC Cabinet War Committee

DAI Director of Air Intelligence

DEA Department of External Affairs

DL(1) Defence Liaison (1) Division

DL(2) Defence Liaison (2) Division

DMI Director of Military Intelligence

DND Department of National Defence

DNI Director of Naval Intelligence

DSI Director of Scientific Intelligence

G-2 United States Army military intelligence

FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service

GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters

IAC Intelligence Advisory Committee (Canada and the US each had IACs)

ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff

JIB Joint Intelligence Bureau

JIC Joint Intelligence Committee (Canada, the US, and the UK each had JICs at one time or another)

JIC (London) Informal name for the United Kingdom’s Joint Intelligence Committee

JIC (Ottawa) Informal name for Canada’s Joint Intelligence Committee

JICLO(L) Joint Intelligence Committee Liaison Officer (London)

JICLO(W) Joint Intelligence Committee Liaison Officer (Washington)

JIG Joint Intelligence Group

JIR Joint Indications Room (Canada and the UK each had JIRs)

JIS Joint Intelligence Staff

JISC Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee

JPC Joint Planning Committee

MCC Military Cooperation Committee

MOD Ministry of Defence (UK)

NIE National Intelligence Estimate

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NIC National Indications Center

NORAD North American Air Defence Command

NSA National Security Agency

NSC National Security Council

ORE Office of Reports and Estimates

PCO Privy Council Office

PHP Post-Hostilities Planning Committee

PJBD Permanent Joint Board of Defence (Canada and the US)

RAF Royal Air Force

RCAF Royal Canadian Air Force

SAC Strategic Air Command

SACEUR Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

SG Standing Group

SIS Secret Intelligence Service (UK, sometimes known as MI6)

SIGINT Signals Intelligence

SLS Service Liaison Staff (UK)

SNIE Special National Intelligence Estimate

SSEA Secretary of State for External Affairs

TIAA Tripartite Intelligence Alerts Agreement

UN United Nations

UNEF United Nations Emergency Force

USAF United States Air Force

USIB United States Intelligence Board

USSEA Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs