Iraq Survey Group Final Report
Regime Finance and Procurement
Annex L
Procurement Acronyms
| 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 |
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