Pandemic (72 page)
Authors: James Barrington
SVR
Sluzhba Vneshney Razvyedki Rossi
: the successor to the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, responsible for espionage and intelligence operations
outside Russia
SWAT
Special Weapons and Tactics. Generic term applied to police and other law-enforcement agency paramilitary units
Two and a half
Royal Navy slang term for a Lieutenant Commander
UHF
Ultra high frequency
Unsub
Unknown subject – the unidentified perpetrator of a crime (US slang)
USAMRIID
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Part of the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and the principal
research laboratory of the American Biological Defense Research Program
Uzi
Israeli-manufactured 9mm sub-machine-gun
Vauxhall Cross
The headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service fronting the Thames in London: the building’s bizarre design has spawned a
number of uncomplimentary nicknames
VHF
Very high frequency
Walnut
Slang term for the CIA’s main database
WASP
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Slang term applied mainly to young, white, affluent and powerful middle-class Americans in the 1970s and 1980s
Wings
Commander (Air): the head of the Air Department on an aircraft carrier
First published 2005 by Macmillan
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