Daughters of the KGB by Douglas Boyd

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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