AAP Australian Associated Press news agency ABLT Állambiztonsági Szolgálatok Történeti Levéltára (Hungarian state intelligence archives) ABW Agencja Bezpieczenstwa Wewnetrznego (Polish counter-espionage service) AK Armia Krajowa (Polosh Home Army) AL Armia Ludowa (People’s Army) AVH Allamvédelmi Hatósag (second name of Hungarian secret police) AVO Allamvédelmi Osztálya (first name of Hungarian secret police) BA Belügyminisztérium Állambiztonsági (Hungarian intelligence agency) BfV Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (Federal German security service) BIRN Balkan Investigative Reporting Network BIS Bezpecnostní Informacní Služba (Czech post-Communist security service) BKP Bulgarska Komunisticheska Partia (Bulgarian Communist Party) BND Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal German intelligence service) BStU Bundesbeauftragte der Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsministeriums der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (Stasi archives) CIA Central Intelligence Agency CIC US Counter-Intelligence Corps CIO Anti-Communist Czech Intelligence Office CNSAS Conciliul National pentru Studearea Archivelor Securitâtii (Romanian post-Communist intelligence archives) CPGB Communist Party of Great Britain CSSR Ceskoslovenská Socialistická Republika (Czechoslovak Socialist Republic) DM Deutsche Mark (West German currency) DST Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (French security service) EAM/ELAS Left-wing Greek resistance FDJ Freie Deutsche Jugend (Communist equivalent of the Hitler Youth organisation) GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters GDR German Democratic Republic GRU Glavnoye Razvedatelnoye Upravleniye (Soviet military intelligence) GZI Glowny Zarzad Informacji (Polish military intelligence) HVA Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung (East German foreign intelligence service) IGM Internationale Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte (International Association for Human Rights) IM inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (informer working for the Stasi) IWF Institut für wirtschaftliche Forschung (Institute for Scientific Research, a cover name for HVA) KDS Komitet za Darzhavna Sigurnost (Bulgarian Committee of State Security) KdSBP Komitet do Spraw Bezpieczenstwa Publicznego (Polish Committee for Public Security) KGB Komityet Gosudrarstvennoi Bezopacnosti (Committee of State Security of USSR) KgU Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit (West German anti-Stasi group) KKE Kommunistikó Kómma Elládas (Greek Communist Party) KPD Kommunistiche Partei Deutschlands (German Communist Party) KSC Komunistická Strana Ceskoslovenska (Czechoslovakian Communist Party) LSK Luftstreitkräfte (East German air force) MBP Ministerstwo Bezpieczenstwa Publicznego (Polish Ministry of Public Security) MDP Magyar Dolgozók Párt (Hungarian Workers’ Party, i.e. Communist Party) MfS Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (Ministry of State Security) MI5 British Security Service MI6 British Intelligence Service MIG Mikoyan i Gurevitch (names of two Soviet aircraft designers) MKP Magyar Komunista Párt (Hungarian Communist Party) MNVK2 Magyar Néphadsereg Vezérkara 2 Csoportfonöksege (Hungarian military intelligence) MSW Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnetrznych (Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs) MSzMP Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt (Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party) MVD Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Dyel (Soviet successor to NKVD) NICSMA NATO Integrated Systems Management Agency NKVD Narodny Komissariat Vnukhtrennikh Dyel (Soviet forerunner of KGB) NSA US National Security Agency NSDAP Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (full name of Hitler’s Nazi party) NVA Nazionale Volksarmee (East German army) OKW Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German General Staff in Second World War) OSI US Air Force Office of Special Investigations OSS US Office of Strategic Services (in Second World War) PCF Parti Communiste Français (French Communist Party) PCI Partito Comunista Italiano (Italian Communist Party) PCR Partidul Comunist Român