LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

• AH – America House / Amerika-Haus
• AID – Agency for International Development
• APO – Außerparlamentarische Opposition (also EPO)
• APOB – Archive “APO und soziale Bewegungen,” Free University Berlin
• ASTA – Allgemeiner Studierenden Ausschuß  (Student Government)
• BPP – Black Panther Party
• BV – Bundesvorstand (National Office)
• CF – Chronological File
• CIA – Central Intelligence Agency
• CREST – CIA Records Search Tool, U.S. National Archives II, College Park, Maryland
• CU – Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State
• DK – Delegiertenkonferenz (National Convention)
• DOS – Department of State
• EPO – Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (also APO)
• ESU – Étudiants Socialistes Unifiés, France
• FBI – Federal Bureau of Intelligence
• FRG – Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
• FRUS – Foreign Relations of the United States
• FSM – Free Speech Movement
• FSO – Foreign Service Officer
• FU – Freie Universität (Free University)
• FY – Fiscal Year
• GAI – German-American Institute
• GDR – German Democratic Republic (Deutsche Demokratische Republic)
• GUL – Georgetown University Library, Special Collections, Washington, D.C.
• HEW – Department of Health, Education and Welfare
• HIS – Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg
• IAYC – Inter-Agency Youth Committee
• ICDP – International Confederation for Disarmament and Peace
• INFI – Internationales Nachrichten- und Forschungsinstitut
• (International News- and Research Institute)
• INR – Office of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
• ISS – Intercollegiate Socialist Society
• IUS – International Union of Students
• JFKL – John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts
• JGS – Jeunes Gardes Socialistes, Belgium
• IUSY – International Union of Socialist Youth
• LBJL – Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas
• LID – League for Industrial Democracy
• LNS – Liberation News Service
• MAAG – Military Assistance Advisory Group
• MACV – Military Assistance Command, Vietnam
• NA – U.S. National Archives II, College Park, Maryland
• NADC – U.S. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
• NALSO – National Association of Labour Student Organizations, UK
• NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NEA – North East Asia
• NLF – National Liberation Front
• NLN – New Left Notes
• NPD – Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands 
(German National Democratic Party)
• NPT – Non-Proliferation Treaty
• NSA – National Student Association
• NSA – National Security Agency
• NSF – National Security File
• OLC – Oxford Labour Club, Oxford, UK
• PL – Progressive Labor
• RAF – Rote Armee Franktion (Red Army Faction)
• RC – Republikanischer Club (Republican Club)
• RYM – Revolutionary Youth Movement
• SANE – National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
• SDS – Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (West Germany) or Students for a Democratic Society (USA)
• SDS – Students for a Democratic Society
• SED – Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (Socialist Union Party of East Germany)
• SHB – Sozialdemokratischer Hochschulbund (Social Democratic Student Association)
• SHSW – State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
• SLID – Student League for Industrial Democracy
• SNCC – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• SPD – Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (German Social Democratic Party)
• TU – Technische Universität (Technical University)
• UASC – University of Arkansas Libraries, Special Collections, Fayetteville, Arkansas
• USG – United States Government
• USIA – United States Information Agency
• USIS – United States Information Service
• VDS – Verband Deutscher Studentenschaften (Association of German Student Bodies)
• WFDY – World Federation of Democratic Youth
• WHCF – White House Confidential File
• WYA – World Youth Assembly
• YPSL – Young People Socialist League