CIA Analysis of the Warsaw Pact Forces

CIA Analysis of the Warsaw Pact Forces: The Importance of Clandestine Reporting

This study examines the role of clandestine reporting in CIA’s analysis of the Warsaw Pact from 1955 to 1985. The Soviet Union established itself as a threat to the West at the end of World War II by its military occupation of eastern European countries and the attempts of its armed proxies to capture Greece and South Korea. The West countered with the formation of NATO. While the West welcomed West Germany into NATO, the Soviets established a military bloc of Communist nations with the Warsaw Treaty of May 1955. This study continues CIA’s efforts to provide a detailed record of the intelligence derived from clandestine human and technical sources from that period. This intelligence was provided to US policy makers and used to assess the political and military balances and confrontations in Central Europe between the Warsaw Pact and NATO during the Cold War.

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II-29 Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU Concerning the Vienna Talks of Premier Khrushchev

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1961-08-07.pdf	221.11 KB

II-33 Berlin, CIA/OCI, Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, 17 August 1961

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1961-08-17.pdf	418.84 KB

II-37 Annex A: “Soviet Military Forces and Capabilities,” and Annex B: “Tables of Sino-Soviet Bloc M

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1961-08-24b.pdf	2.91 MB

II-38 Khrushchev’s Intentions Regarding Germany, a Summit Conference, Iran, and Turkey, and a Realig

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1961-09-01a.pdf	241.74 KB

II-39b Implications of the Soviet Resumption of Nuclear Testing, SNIE 11-11-61, 7 September 1961

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1961-09-07.pdf	288.92 KB

II-41 Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations, President John F Kennedy, 25 Septem

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1961-09-25.pdf	412.41 KB

II-48 Soviet Tactics in the Berlin Crisis, Reaction in Eastern Europe to the Berlin Crisis, Suspect

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1961-10-12.pdf	1.29 MB

II-49 Address by Roswell L. Gilpatric, Deputy Secretary of Defense, before the Business Council at T

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1961-10-21.pdf	622.62 KB

II-50 New Emphasis on Strengthening Soviet Strategic Missile Capabilities, CIA/ DP Clandestine Repor

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1962-01-25.pdf	180.81 KB

II-52 The Commitment of a Front Second Echelon to an Engagement by Col. N. Kalayev and Lt. Col. A. T

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II-6 Khrushchev’s Strategy on Berlin, CIA/DI/OCI, Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, 18 August 196

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1960-08-18.pdf	480.52 KB

II-8 Moscow and Berlin (Bloc Tactics), CIA/DI/OCI Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, 1 December 19

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1960-12-01a.pdf	567.28 KB

III-011 “The New Field Service Regulations of the Armed Forces of the USSR,” by Marshal of the Sovie

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1978-12-14.pdf	2.07 MB

III-016 “Penkovskiy’s Legacy and Strategic Research,” CIA/DCI/CSI, Studies in Intelligence, Volume 1

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1972-04-01.pdf	1.12 MB

III-018 “The Theory of Military Art Needs Review,” by Col. Gen. A.I. Gastilovich and Lt. Gen. I.A. T

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1961-12-18.pdf	1.47 MB

III-027 “Several Questions on Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Basic Means of Antiair Defense of

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1962-08-03.pdf	1.05 MB

III-029 “The Tasks of the Navy and the Methods of Performing Them,” by Admiral Kharlamov, special co

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1962-09-11.pdf	1.05 MB

III-032 “The Submarine Operation of the Navy—The Naval Operation of the Future,” by Adm. Yu. Pantele

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1962-02-21.pdf	1.16 MB

III-033 “The Use of Surface Vessels in Modern Naval Warfare,” by R. Adm. N. Zvyagin, special collect

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1961-12-11.pdf	975.35 KB

III-036 “Some Questions in the Further Development and Improvement of the Ground Troops,” by Col. Ge

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1962-03-12.pdf	1.47 MB

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