ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS
| ADCI | Assistant Director of Central Intelligence |
| ADCI/C | Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Collection |
| ADDI | Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence |
| ALF | Arab Liberation Front |
| ANO | Abu Nidal Organization |
| BW | Biological weapon(s) |
| CBRN | Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear |
| CBW | Chemical and biological weapon(s) |
| CCDC | Collection Concepts Development Center |
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency |
| CPD | CIA's Directorate of Operations Counterproliferation Division |
| CTC | Counterterrorist Center |
| CW | Chemical weapon(s) |
| D&D | Denial and deception |
| DCI | Director of Central Intelligence |
| DDCI | Deputy Director of Central Intelligence |
| DDI | Deputy Director for Intelligence |
| DI | CIA's Directorate of Intelligence |
| DIA | Defense Intelligence Agency |
| DO | CIA's Directorate of Operations |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| EIJ | Egyptian Islamic Jihad |
| ELINT | electronic intelligence |
| EMIS | Electro-Magnetic Isotope Separation |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FBIS | Foreign Broadcast Information Service |
| GF | Cyclosarin (a type of nerve agent) |
| GON | Government of Niger |
| HEU | Highly enriched uranium |
| HPSCI | House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
| HUMINT | Human intelligence |
| Hz | Hertz (cycles per second) |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IAEC | Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission |
| IAEO | Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization |
| IC | Intelligence Community |
| ICA | Intelligence Community Assessment |
| IIS | Iraqi Intelligence Service |
| ILS | CIA's Intelligence Liaison Staff |
| IMINT | Imagery intelligence |
| INR | Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research |
| INVO | IAEA's Iraq Nuclear Verification Office |
| IO/UNP | State Department's Bureau of International Organizations, Office of United Nations Political Affairs |
| ISG | Iraq Survey Group |
| JAEIC | Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee |
| kg | Kilogram(s) |
| KSM | Khalid Shaikh Muhammad |
| MASINT | Measurement and signature intelligence |
| MEK | Mujahedin-e Khalq |
| MEL | Mobile erector and launcher |
| MID | Military Intelligence Digest |
| mm | Millimeter(s) |
| MRBM | Medium-range ballistic missile |
| MRL | Multiple rocket launcher |
| NAIC | Air Force's National Air Intelligence Center (former name for National Air and Space Intelligence Center [NAISIC]) |
| NBC | Nuclear, biologican and chemical |
| NESA | CIA's Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis |
| NFIB | National Foreign Intelligence Board |
| NGA | National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (new name for the National Imagery and Mapping Agency [NIMA]) |
| NGIC | National Ground Intelligence Center |
| NGO | Non-governmental organization |
| NIAG | Nuclear Interdiction Action Group |
| NIC | National Intelligence Council |
| NICB | National Intelligence Collection Board |
| NIE | National Intelligence Estimate |
| NIH | National Institute of Health |
| NIMA | National Imagery and Mapping Agency (former name for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency [NGA]) |
| NIO | National Intelligence Officer |
| NMJIC | National Military Joint Intelligence Center |
| NP | State Department's Bureau of Nonproliferation |
| NSA | National Security Agency |
| NSC | National Security Council |
| OIF | Operation Iraqi Freedom |
| OMI | Iraqi Organization for Military Industrialization |
| OSD | Office of the Secretary of Defense |
| OUSD-P | Office of the UnderSecretary of Defense for Policy |
| PA | Department of State's Office of Public Affairs |
| PCTEG | Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group |
| PDB | Presidential Daily Brief |
| PFLP-GC | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command |
| PIJ | Palestinian Islamic Jihad |
| PLF | Palestinian Liberation Front |
| PM | Prime minister |
| PUK | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan |
| R&D | Research and development |
| RPM/rpm | Rotations per minute |
| SAM | Surface-to-air missile |
| SASC | Senate Armed Services Committee |
| SEIB | Senior Executive Intelligence Brief |
| SIGINT | Signals Intelligence |
| SIO | Senior Intelligence Officer |
| SOCM | Sense of the Community Memorandum |
| SPM | Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Strategic, Proliferation, and Military Analysis |
| SPWR | Senior Publish When Ready (a CIA finished intelligence product) |
| SRBM | Short-range ballistic missile |
| SSCI | Senate Select Committee on Intelligence |
| TEL | Transporter, erector, and launcher |
| TIN | Technical intelligence note (a Department of Energy finished intelligence product) |
| UAE | United Arab Emirates |
| UAV | Unmanned aerial vehicle |
| UBL | Usama bin Ladin |
| UDMH | Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (a type of missile fuel) |
| UF6 | Uranium hexaflouride |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNMOVIC | United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission |
| UNSC | United Nations Security Council |
| UNSCOM | United Nations Special Commission |
| UNSCR | United Nations Security Council Resolution |
| UNSCR | 687 United Nations Security Council Resolution prohibiting Iraq from having WMD or proscribed missiles |
| UNSCR | 707 United Nations Security Council Resolution condemning Iraq for violating UNSCR 687 |
| USAF | United States Air Force |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| USG | United States government |
| VTC | Video teleconference |
| VX | O-ethyl S-(2-iisopropylaminoethyl) methylphosphonothiolate (a type of nerve agent) |
| WINPAC | Director of Central's Intelligence's Center for Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control |
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