Glossary
| ACofS | Assistant Chief of Staff |
| ADP | Automatic data processing |
| ARVN | Army of the Republic of Vietnam |
| CDEC | Combined Document Exploitation Center |
| CDIC | Combined Division Interrogation Center |
| CEDAR FALLS | Joint operation carried out by the 1st and 25th Infantry Divisions, 173d Airborne Brigade, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, and South Vietnamese Army units against Viet Cong Military Region IV headquarters in the Iron Triangle, 8-26 January 1967 |
| CG | Commanding general |
| CICV | Combined Intelligence Center, Vietnam |
| CIO | Central Intelligence Organization (Republic of Vietnam) |
| CIS | Combined Intelligence Staff |
| CMD | Capital Military District |
| CMEC | Combined Materiel Exploitation Center |
| CMIC | Combined Military Interrogation Center |
| COMUSMACV | Commander, U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam |
| CONCRETE | Project undertaken in 1965 to obtain imagery interpretation equipment |
| CTZ | Corps tactical zone |
| EEI | Essential elements of information |
| EOD | Explosive ordnance disposal |
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FAIRFAX/RANG DONG |
Operation initiated 1 December 1966 by three U.S. and three South Vietnamese battalions with the mission of searching out and destroying the Viet Cong main force units, guerrillas, and infrastructure in Viet Cong Military Region IV |
| G-2 | Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence |
| "Go" | teams Teams of U.S. And Vietnamese interrogators who were always ready to be dispatched from Saigon to support combat units when interrogation requirements exceeded local capabilities |
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| IBM | International Business Machine |
| II | Imagery interpretation |
| IOD | Intelligence Operations Division |
| IPW | Prisoner of war interrogation |
| J-2 | Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence |
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JUNCTION CITY |
U.S.-Vietnamese operation conducted February-May 1967 in War Zone C and bordering provinces |
| MACV | U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam |
| MI | Military intelligence |
| MIBARS | Military intelligence battalion (air reconnaissance support) |
| MSS | Military Security Service (Republic of Vietnam) |
| OB | Order of battle |
| PICC | Province Intelligence Coordination Committee |
| RVN | Republic of Vietnam |
| RVNAF | Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces |
| S-2 | Intelligence officer |
| STARLIGHT | Operation by U.S. marines which resulted in the first major encounter between U.S. And Viet Cong forces in Vietnam, late summer 1965 |
| TRAC | Target Research and Analysis Center |
| USARV | U.S. Army, Vietnam |
| VCI | Viet Cong infrastructure |
| WAYSIDE | Project undertaken by the 1st Military Intelligence Battalion (Air Reconnaissance Support) to produce annotated photomaps of U.S. installations and areas in which military operations were planned in South Vietnam |
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