[Ads-l] Antedating of "spad"

[Hugo]

Added to the OED in this quarter's update, "spad" (2001), short for
"special advisor".

Perhaps more initialismy than acronymy, there's a "SPAD Special Advisor" in
this Defense and Intelligence Abbreviations and Acronyms (1997) list.

https://archive.org/details/JMICDefenseIntelAcronyms.pdf

Hugo

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