| ADST |
Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training |
| CA RECORDS |
Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs |
| CCP |
Chinese Communist Party |
| CFEP |
Council on Foreign Economic Policy |
| CHICOMS |
Chinse Communists |
| CHINATS |
Chinese Nationalists |
| CHINCOM |
China Committee (of COCOM, see below) |
| CHIREP |
Chinese representation in the United Nations issue |
| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
| CINCPAC |
Commander in chief, Pacific command |
| COCOM |
Coordinating Committee of the Paris Consultative Group |
| COLUMBIA |
Columbia University Manuscript Library |
| DDEL |
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas |
| DDRS |
Declassified Documents Reference Service |
| EDAC |
Economic Defense Advisory Committee |
| FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FBIS |
Foreign Broadcast Information Service |
| FRUS |
Foreign Relations of the United States |
| GRC |
government of the Republic of China |
| HOOVER |
Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace, Stanford, California |
| ICA |
International Cooperation Administration |
| JCS |
Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| JFKL |
John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts |
| JPRS |
Joint Publications Research Service |
| KMT |
Kuomintang |
| LBJL |
Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas |
| MAAG |
Military Assistance Advisory Group |
| MEMCON |
Memorandum of conversation |
| MHS |
Minnesota Historical Society, Minneapolis |
| MUDD |
Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University |
| NA |
National Archives and Records Administration |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NIE |
National Intelligence Estimate |
| NORC |
National Opinion Research Center |
| NSA |
National Security Archive |
| NSC |
National Security Council |
| OCB |
Operations Coordinating Board |
| OH |
Oral History |
| PLA |
People’s Liberation Army |
| PRO |
Public Records Office, British Foreign Office Records, Kew, Great Britain |
| RG 59 |
General Records of the Department of State |
| RG 84 |
China Post Files |
| ROC |
Republic of China |
| SEATO |
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization |
| SCMP |
Survey of China Mainland Press |
| SNIE |
Special National Intelligence Estimate |
| USIA |
United States Information Agency |
| VOA |
Voice of America |
| WNRC |
Washington National Records Center, Suitland, MD |