Frontaufklärungstrupp. Mobile Abwehr field units which
are subordinate to a FAK. Formerly Abwehrtruppen.
FFI. Forces Franҫaises de l'Intérieur (Free French Military
Resistance).
FHO. Fremde Heere Ost (Foreign Armies East). Intelligence
analysis section of the General Staff of the German Army, with
responsibility for the Eastern Front.
FHW. Fremde Heere West (Foreign Armies West). Intelligence
analysis section of the General Staff of the German Army, with
responsibility for all European fronts other than the Eastern
Front.
Foodstuff. See Chicken Feed.
Forty Committees. See Thirty Committees.
FSP/FSS. Field Security Police/Section, Counter-Intelligence
and security force of Intelligence Corps personnel; CIC
equivalent in British Army.
FUSAG. First US Army Group, later known as 12 AG.
G-2/GSO(I). Military Intelligence staff (US/British).
G-5. Civil Affairs, U.S. Army
GALVESTON. Codename for Dudley Clarke, head of ‘A' Force;
sometimes used to denote the organization as a whole.
GC&CS. Government Code and Cypher School, aka Bletchley
Park.
GHQ. General Headquarters. Middle East. Based in Cairo.
GIS. German Intelligence Service.
I(b). British Military Staff for CI matters.
Ic. German staff officer responsible for operational intelligence.
I/H – I/L – I/M. Sections of Abwehr Abteilung I responsible for
army (I/H), Air force (I/L), and naval intelligence (I/M),
respectively.
ISBA. “Intelligence Service, British Agents”; name for sub-series
of ISOS whose distribution was restricted by Lt Col Cowgill,
MI6(V).
ISLD. Inter-Services Liaison Department. The local guise of MI6
in the Mediterranean and Middle East.
ISSB. Inter-Services Security Board.
ISK. Intelligence Service Knox. Named after Dillwyn Knox, the
intelligence product from breaking Abwehr machine ciphers.
ISOS. Intelligence Service Oliver Strachey. Intelligence product
derived from breaking Abwehr hand ciphers.
JE-Land. X-2 codename for USSR.
JIC. Joint Intelligence Committee. British cabinet sub-
committee.
JPS. Joint Planning Staff.
KdM. Kommando des Meldegebietes; HQ of the Reporting
Area, replaced AST and KO organizations.
KO. Kriegsorganization. A main Abwehr station in a neutral or
friendly state.
LCS. London Controlling Section. Responsible for planning and
co-ordinating all strategic deception in the European theatre.
Leitstelle I-West. Office in charge of FAKs and FATs in the West,
including collecting and disseminating agent information.
LVF. Légion des Volontaires Franҫais Contre le Bolchevisme;
French volunteers in the Waffen SS.
MEDTO. Mediterranean Theater of Operations.
METO. Middle East Theater of Operations.
MI5. The Security Service. Responsible for security and
counter-intelligence in Britain and in British overseas
possessions.
MI6/SIS. The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). Responsible for
foreign intelligence and counter-intelligence.
MI6(V). Section V of MI6, CE Section of British Foreign
Intelligence; MI6 Section 5.
Mil Amt. Militärische Amt; in June 1944, Abwehr I and II were
merged together and became the Militärisches Amt (or Mil Amt)
of Walter Schellenberg's SD.
Milice. Milice Franҫais, fascist police force in Vichy France.
MIS. US Military Intelligence Service.
MSS. Most Secret Sources, i.e. ULTRA and ISOS/ISK.
MYTH. Codename for a radio agent known from MSS.
NATO. North African Theater of Operations.
NATOUSA. North African Theater of Operations, U.S. Army.
NEST. Nebenstelle, Sub-Office or –Branch.
NKVD. Soviet Intelligence.
Notional. Activities, persons, units, etc. presented to the enemy
as being real but which were, in fact, fake.
Oberbefehlshaber Süd west. The High Command of German
Armies in the Southwest.
