ASK: Annelise Sørensen Kennan
CIA: Central Intelligence Agency
CKB: Constance Kennan Bradt
DSR-DF: Decimal File, U.S. Department of State Records, Record Group 59, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation
FKW: Frances Kennan Worobec
FRUS: U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States
GFK: George F. Kennan
GFK Diary: George F. Kennan Diary, Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, filed chronologically in Boxes 230–39 and 325–26
GFK, Memoirs, I: George F. Kennan, Memoirs: 1925–1950 (Boston: Atlantic–Little, Brown, 1967)
GFK, Memoirs, II: George F. Kennan, Memoirs: 1950–1963 (Boston: Atlantic–Little, Brown, 1972)
JKH: Jeanette Kennan Hotchkiss
JEK: Joan Elisabeth Kennan
JLG: John Lewis Gaddis
KKK: Kossuth Kent Kennan
KWK: Kent Wheeler Kennan
NSC: National Security Council
OPC: Office of Policy Coordination
OSP: Office of Special Projects
OSS: Office of Strategic Services
PPS Papers: The State Department Policy Planning Staff Papers, 1947–1949. New York: Garland, 1983.
PPS Records: U.S. Department of State, Policy Planning Staff Records, Record Group 59, National Archives, Washington, D.C.