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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
ADCI
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
ADDO
Associate Deputy Director for Operations
ADREN
Nicaraguan Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, an anti-Sandinista group formed in 1980 and disbanded in 1982
A.K.A.
Also Known As
ALA
Directorate of Intelligence/Office of African and Latin American Analysis
ARDE
Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, an anti-Sandinista, political-military organization founded in Costa Rica in 1982
ATF
Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
AUSA
Assistant United States Attorney
BOS
Southern Opposition Bloc, an anti-Sandinista group founded in Costa Rica in 1985
CATF
Directorate of Operations/Latin America Division/Central America Task Force
CGT
French General Confederation of Labor
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
CMA
Civilian Military Assistance
CMS
Directorate of Operations/Career Management Staff
COPS
Chief of Operations
CONDOR
Nicaraguan Coalition of Opposition to the Regime, an anti-Sandinista group based in Miami, Florida, and formed in 1985
COS
Chief of Station
DCI
Director of Central Intelligence
DCOS
Deputy Chief of Station
DDCI
Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
DEA
Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration
DGSE
General Directorate of State Security, the Sandinista secret police and Ministry of Interior special forces
DI
Directorate of Intelligence
DIA
Defense Intelligence Agency
DO
Directorate of Operations
DDO
Deputy Director for Operations
DoD
Department of Defense
DoJ
Department of Justice
DoS
Department of State
E.O.
Executive Order
EPS
DO/Special Activities Staff/Special Operations Group/Evaluation and Plans Staff
ERN
Army of the Nicaraguan Resistance, a Contra organization formed in 1987 consisting of the ERN/North front and the ERN/South front
ERP
Employee Review Panel
FARN
Nicaraguan Revolutionary Armed Force, the military arm of the anti-Sandinista Nicaraguan Democratic Union founded in 1980
FBI
DoJ, Federal Bureau of Investigation
FDN
Nicaraguan Democratic Force, an armed anti-Sandinista organization founded in 1982
FRS
Sandino Revolutionary Front, an anti-Sandinista, political-military organization founded in 1982
FSLN
Sandinista National Liberation Front, Marxist organization founded with Cuban help in 1961
FY
Fiscal Year
GOC
Government of Cuba
GRN
Government of National Reconstruction, official designation of the government of Nicaragua from July 1979 until January 1985
HAC
House Appropriations Committee
HN
Headquarters Notice
HR
Headquarters Regulation
HPSCI
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
IG
Inspector General
IMS
DO/Information Management Staff
INS
DoJ, Immigration and Naturalization Service
KISAN
United Indigenous Peoples of Nicaragua, Atlantic Coast Indian organization established in 1985
MDN
Nicaraguan Democratic Movement, a social democratic party
MFR
Memorandum for the Record
MINT
GRN, Ministry of the Interior
MISURASATA
Miskito, Sumo, Rama, Sandinista All Together, an Atlantic Coast Indian organization formed in 1979
MOU
Memorandum of Understanding
NHAO
DoS, Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office
NIE
National Intelligence Estimate
NIO
National Intelligence Officer
NOG
DO/LA Division/CATF/Nicaraguan Operations Group
NSC
National Security Council
OCA
DCI/Office of Congressional Affairs
OES
Special Secret Operations Command of the 15th of September Legion
OGC
DCI/Office of General Counsel
OGI
DI/Office of Global Issues
OIC
Office of Independent Counsel
OIG
DCI/Office of Inspector General
OIJ
Costa Rican Office of Judicial Investigation
OIPR
DoJ, Office of Intelligence Policy and Review
OMS
DA/Office of Medical Services
OS
DA/Office of Security
PAR
Performance Appraisal Report
Panamanian Defense Forces
PRA
Permanent Resident Alien
RN
Nicaraguan Resistance, formed in 1987 by unification of BOS and the Unified Nicaraguan Opposition
SAS
DO/Special Activities Staff
SAT
Southern Air Transport
SFRC
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
SICC
Southern Indigenous Creole Community
SOG
DO/LA Division/CATF/Special Operations Group
SOG
DO/SAS/Special Operations Group
SSCI
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
UDN
Nicaraguan Democratic Union, Southern Front Contra organization founded in 1980
UNO
Unified Nicaraguan Opposition in 1985-1987, joined with BOS in 1987 to form the RN
USDAO
U.S. Defense Attaché Office
YATAMA
The United Nations of Yapti Tasba--the Sacred Motherland, a Miskito Indian group formed by the 1987 merger of the anti-Sandinista forces of KISAN, MISURA, and MISURASATA