Abwehr |
German military intelligence |
ADI(K) |
air intelligence section attached to CSDIC |
ATS |
Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women’s branch of the army during the Second World War |
BSC |
British Security Co-ordination, an MI6 organization in the US |
Comintern |
Communist International organization |
CSDIC |
Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre |
DDMI |
deputy director of Military Intelligence |
DMI |
director of Military Intelligence |
FBI |
US Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Gestapo |
Geheime Staatspolizei, German Secret State Police |
GHQ |
general headquarters |
HUMINT |
intelligence gained from humans |
JIC |
Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee |
MI5 |
intelligence organization for national security within Britain |
MI6 |
intelligence organization for Britain’s security abroad |
MI9 |
intelligence organization for prisoners of war |
MI19 |
responsible for obtaining intelligence from prisoners of war |
NKVD |
People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, Soviet intelligence organization (1934–46), successor organization to OGPU |
OGPU |
Soviet secret police (1923–34) |
OSS |
Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the US Central Intelligence Agency) |
POW |
prisoner of war |
RNVR |
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |
SA |
Sturmabteilung, Storm Detachment, the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing |
SD |
Sicherheitsdienst, German security service, an intelligence-gathering agency |
Sicherheitspolizei |
security police |
SIGINT |
signals intelligence |
SIS |
Secret Intelligence Service |
SOE |
Special Operations Executive |
SS |
Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party security and policing organization |
WRNS |
Women’s Royal Naval Service |