| Acronym |
|
Meaning |
| ABS |
|
Scientific Bureau for Drug Information and Medical Appliances |
| AEST |
|
Albostangy Equipment Services and Trade |
| AP |
|
ammonium perchlorate |
| ARADET |
|
Arab Company for Detergent Chemicals |
| ARC |
|
Arabian Russian Company of Jordan |
| ARI |
|
acute respiratory infections |
| ASB |
|
Arabic Scientific Bureau |
| ATGM |
|
anti-tank guided missile |
| AWACS |
|
airborne warning and control systems |
| AZ-11 |
|
a type of liquid rocket propellant, composed of 2 components (DETA and UDMH), according to captured documents |
| bbl/d |
|
barrels per day |
| BCP |
|
Border Control Checkpoints |
| BME |
|
Belmetalenergo |
| BOP |
|
Balance of Payments |
| BW |
|
Biological Weapons |
| CA |
|
Commercial Attaché |
| CAEC |
|
Abrasive Import and Export Corporation |
| CBI |
|
Central Bank of Iraq |
| CBJ |
|
Central Bank of Jordan |
| CBS |
|
Central Bank of Syria |
| CBW |
|
Chemical and biological weapons |
| CCD |
|
Charge coupled device |
| CGMS |
|
Control and Guidance Missile System |
| CIA |
|
Central Intelligence Agency |
| CNC |
|
Computer numeric controlled machines or devices |
| CoM |
|
Council of Ministers |
| CoS |
|
Chief of Staff |
| CPA |
|
Coalition Provision Authority |
| CPMIEC |
|
China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation |
| CPU |
|
Central Processing Unit |
| CW |
|
Chemical weapons |
| DETA |
|
diethylenetriamine: one of the two components of AZ-11, a type of liquid rocket propellant |
| DGMI |
|
Directorate of General Military Intelligence |
| DGS |
|
Directorate of General Security |
| DIA |
|
Defense Intelligence Agency |
| Diwan |
|
The Presidential Office |
| DMI |
|
Directorate of Military Intelligence |
| DOCEX |
|
Document Exploitation |
| DPRK |
|
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea |
| EAC |
|
Economic Affairs Committee |
| ECCM |
|
Electronic Counter-Countermeasure |
| ECM |
|
Electro-chemical machining |
| EGC |
|
Electric-Gaz-Com |
| EMIS |
|
Electromagnetic Isotope Separation |
| EP |
|
Entry Points |
| ETGC |
|
External Technology General Corporation |
| EUC |
|
end-user certificates |
| EW |
|
Electronic Warfare |
| FAO |
|
Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FCDC |
|
Foreign Currency Disbursement Committee |
| FEAL |
|
Food Examination and Analysis Lab |
| FRY |
|
Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| GDP |
|
Gross Domestic Product |
| GID |
|
General Intelligence Directorate (Jordan) |
| GPS |
|
Global Positioning System |
| GRL |
|
Goods Review List |
| HDI |
|
Human Development Index |
| HE |
|
high explosive |
| HF |
|
High Frequency |
| HSBC |
|
Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation |
| HUMINT |
|
Human Intelligence |
| HVD |
|
High-Value Detainee |
| IAEA |
|
International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IAEC |
|
Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission |
| IAF |
|
Iraqi Armed Forces |
| ID |
|
Iraqi Dinar |
| IFAT |
|
A Swiss-based, Consen subsidiary established in August 1983 |
| IID |
|
International Industrial Development |
| IIS |
|
Iraqi Intelligence Service |
| IIS M19 |
|
The primary IIS body handling procurement of specialized items. Redesignated as M4/8 in recent years, and also was known as the Technical Consultation Company or the Trade Office |
| IIS M23 |
|
MIC Security Directorate |
| IIS M4 |
|
Foreign Clandestine Operations branch of the Iraqi Intelligence Service or Directorate of Secret Service |
| IIS M4/8 |
|
Formerly the IIS M19, organized into three different sections, the internal section, the foreign section, and the trading section |
| IIS Section One |
|
The internal section primarily responsible for creating front companies inside Iraq and facilitating trade with these companies to import/export oil, batteries, copper and food products |
| ILTC |
|
Iraqi Land Transportation Company |
| IMF |
|
International Monetary Fund |
| INOC |
|
Iraq National Oil Company |
| ISG |
|
Iraq Survey Group |
| ITU |
|
International Telecommunication Union |
| JD |
|
Joint Delegation |
| KGB |
|
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti |
| KOMID |
|
North Korea’s Korea Mining Development Corporation. Previously known as the External Technology General Corporation (ETGC) |
| LU |
|
Launcher units |
| IIS M-5 |
|
The IIS Directorate of Counterintelligence or Counterespionage Directorate |
| MABOT |
|
Mina al Bakr Offshore Terminal |
| MANPADS |
|
Man portable Air Defense Systems |
| MFA |
|
Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| MHESR |
|
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research |
| MIC |
|
Military Industrialization Commission |
| MoA |
|
Ministry of Agriculture |
| MoD |
|
Ministry of Defense |
| MoF |
|
Ministry of Finance |
| MoH |
|
Ministry of Health |
| MoI |
|
Ministry of Industry |
| MoO |
|
Ministry of Oil |
| MoT |
|
Ministry of Trade |
| MoTC |
|
Ministry of Transport and Communication |
| MOU |
|
Memorandum of Understanding |
| NORINCO |
|
China North Industries Corporation |
| NSC |
|
National Security Council |
| NVD |
|
Night Vision Devices |
| NVG |
|
Night Vision Goggles |
| OFF |
|
United Nations Oil-for-Food program |
| OIF |
|
Operation Iraqi Freedom |
| OIP |
|
Office of the Iraq Program |
| OMI |
|
Organization of Military Industrialization, synonymous with the MIC, the preferred usage |
| R&D |
|
Research & Development |
| RCC |
|
Revolutionary Command Council |
| RG |
|
Republican Guard |
| RNA |
|
Research and News Analyzing |
| RPG |
|
Rocket Propelled Grenade |
| SAM |
|
Surface-to-Air Missile |
| SDH |
|
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy |
| SDI |
|
Samarra Drug Industries |
| SFOR |
|
Stabilization Forces |
| SISMI |
|
Italian Intelligence and Military Security Service |
| SOE |
|
State-Owned Enterprises |
| SOMO |
|
State Oil Marketing Organization |
| SRG |
|
Special Republican Guard |
| SSM |
|
Surface-to-Surface missiles |
| SSO |
|
Special Security Organization |
| TAGCO |
|
Trading and Agriculture General Company |
| TIS |
|
Thermal imagery sight |
| TOSSCO |
|
Technical Oilfield Services and Supply Company |
| TPAO |
|
Turkish Petroleum Company |
| TPIC |
|
Turkish Petroleum International Company, a TPAO subsidiary |
| TTC |
|
Thermal tracking camera |
| UAE |
|
United Arab Emirates |
| UAV |
|
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UDMH |
|
One of the two components of AZ-11, a liquid rocket propellant |
| UHF |
|
Ultra -High Frequency |
| UN |
|
United Nations |
| UNCC |
|
United Nations Compensation Commission |
| UNDP |
|
United Nations Development Program |
| UNESCO |
|
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| UNICEF |
|
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund |
| UNMOVIC |
|
United Nations Monitoring Verification & Inspection Commission |
| UNOPS |
|
United Nations Operations |
| UNSC |
|
United Nations Security Council |
| UNSCOM |
|
United Nations Special Commission |
| UNSCR |
|
United Nations Security Council Resolution |
| UNSYG |
|
UN Secretary General |
| UTL |
|
United Telecommunications Limited |
| VHF |
|
Very High Frequency |
| WFP |
|
World Food Program |
| WHO |
|
World Health Organization |
| WMD |
|
Weapons of Mass Destruction |
