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• Abbott LaboratoriesU.S. health care company, one of the major U.S. makers of infant formula in 1981.
• AccelAmerican venture capital firm; Facebook's first venture investor.
• ACT UPAIDS activist group; the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.
• AddeparGlobal data and AI company serving the financial services industry.
• Adolf Hitler SpendeFund collected from German business from 1933 and paid to the Nazi leadership.
• Advertising Standards AuthorityThe UK's independent advertising regulator.
• Advisory Committee on Human Radiation ExperimentsPresidential committee, 1994-95, on U.S. government radiation experiments on people.
• AetnaU.S. insurer founded in 1853.
• AI Infrastructure Partnership Sep 2024 –Investment partnership for AI data centers and energy, launched in September 2024 by BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and MGX.
• Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau of EthiopiaEthiopia’s accident investigation body, which investigated the Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crash.
• Akimat of AstanaCity administration of Astana, Kazakhstan's capital, led by the akim (mayor).
• Al QaedaMilitant organization led by Osama bin Laden that, the 9/11 Commission found, struck the United States on 11 September 2001.
• Al-ManarLebanese television station run by Hezbollah.
• Albert Kahn, Inc.Detroit architecture firm that designed Soviet tractor and truck plants and was consulting architect for Soviet industrial construction from 1930.
• Alden Global CapitalHedge fund that owns newspaper chains, including the Chicago Tribune.
• Almaty district courtA district court in Almaty, Kazakhstan; the Austrian Press Agency calls it "the Almaty district court".
• Alphabet 2015 –Holding company formed in 2015 as the parent of Google.
• AlrosaRussian state-owned diamond mining company.
• Altria GroupHolding company of Philip Morris USA (formerly Philip Morris Companies); a defendant in its own right.
• ALZHIR camp 1937–1953Akmola camp of the wives of traitors to the motherland: a women's camp of the Karlag in Kazakhstan, opened in 1937-38.
• ALZHIR Museum and Memorial Complex 31 May 2007 –Museum of the victims of political repression, opened in 2007 on the site of the ALZHIR camp.
• Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel WorkersUnion of skilled steelworkers that held the contract at Homestead until 1892.
• Amazon 1994 –American e-commerce and cloud-computing company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994.
• American Academy of DermatologyU.S. professional body of dermatologists.
• American Academy of OphthalmologyProfessional body of eye doctors in the U.S.
• American Fur Company (Missouri branch)Fur-trading firm; its Missouri branch, owned since 1834 by Pratte, Chouteau & Company, ran Fort Clark and the steamboat St. Peters in 1837.
• American International GroupU.S. insurance company rescued by the Federal Reserve in 2008.
• American Jewish CommitteeU.S. organisation; its president Louis Marshall drafted Henry Ford’s 1927 retraction.
• American Railway UnionRailway workers' union that backed the Pullman strike in 1894.
• American TherapeuticsGeneric drug company that pleaded guilty in 1990 to criminal counts in the generic drug probe.
• American Tobacco CompanyU.S. cigarette maker, merged into Brown & Williamson.
• AmerisourceBergenU.S. drug wholesaler, now named Cencora.
• Amnesty InternationalHuman rights organization that reported on Bhopal in 2004 and 2014.
• AmocoName taken in 1985 by Standard Oil of Indiana; it merged with British Petroleum in 1998.
• Amtorg Trading CorporationSoviet trading agency in New York.
• Anglo American 1917 –Mining company founded in 1917 by Ernest Oppenheimer; owns 85% of De Beers.
• Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry 1946Joint British and American committee that reported on Palestine and on Europe's displaced persons in April 1946.
• Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company (Abir)Company that held a rubber concession in the Lopori and Maringa basins of the Congo Free State.
• Anglo-Iranian Oil CompanyBritish oil company that held Iran’s oil concession until Iran nationalized it in 1951. Later called BP.
• Anti-Brucellosis Dispensary No. 4Clinic the Soviet military built in 1957 to watch local people for radiation effects, according to Togzhan Kassenova; replaced in 1991 by an institute for radiation medicine.
• Anti-Defamation LeagueU.S. organisation that campaigns against antisemitism; asked in 1920 to counter Henry Ford’s series.
• Antitrust DivisionThe part of the U.S. Department of Justice that enforces the antitrust laws.
• Apple 1976 –American maker of computers, phones and software. It started as a partnership on 1 April 1976 and was incorporated in California on 3 January 1977.
• Arab Higher Committee 1936 –Committee of Arab parties formed in April 1936, led by the Mufti of Jerusalem, that called the general strike.
• Arab League 1945 –Organization of Arab states founded in 1945.
• AramcoArabian American Oil Company, the oil producer in Saudi Arabia, owned in the early 1970s by four U.S. companies.
• Arizona Attorney General's OfficeState law office that sued L'Oréal in September 2026 over hair relaxers.
• Arthur AndersenChicago-based accounting firm, Enron’s auditor; it ended its audits of public companies on 31 August 2002.
• Arthur D. LittleU.S. consulting firm whose Ashok Kalelkar wrote the 1988 paper behind Union Carbide’s sabotage account.
• Arthur YoungOne of the Big Eight; merged with Ernst & Whinney in June 1989 to form Ernst & Young.
• Assassination Records Review Board 1994–1998Independent board created by the 1992 Kennedy assassination records law; it reviewed records the agencies wanted to keep closed.
• Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs 9 Sep 2013 –Kazakhstan's national chamber of entrepreneurs, a business association.
• Atlantic Richfield CompanyU.S. oil company known as ARCO; Britannica lists it among the companies that were once part of the Standard Oil trust.
• Atomic Energy Commission 1 Jan 1947 – 19 Jan 1975US federal agency that controlled atomic energy from 1947 to 1975.
• Auditor Oversight Body (APAS)German public oversight body for auditors, set up at the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control.
• August Belmont & Co.New York banking house that signed the gold contract of 1895 with J. P. Morgan & Co.
• Australian Securities and Investments CommissionAustralian corporate, markets and financial services regulator.
• Autorité de la concurrenceFrance’s competition authority.
• Autorité des marchés financiersFrench financial markets regulator.
• AveenoSkin care brand of Kenvue.
• AVEO PharmaceuticalsCancer drug company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.