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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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III-037 “The Paths of Further Development of the Tank Troops of the Soviet Army,” Marshal of Armored
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 1961-10-02.pdf | 1.21 MB |
III-039 “The Prospects of Development of Armored Combat Vehicles,” by Maj. Gen. of Engineer-Technica
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| 1962-06-26.pdf | 1.51 MB |
III-040 “Questions of the Development of the Organizational Structure of the Tank Troops,” by Maj. G
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| 1962-06-07.pdf | 1.01 MB |
III-042 “Trends in the Development of the Tank Troops of the Soviet Army,” by General of the Army A.
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| 1961-09-12.pdf | 961.48 KB |
III-043 Some Problems of Improving Wheeled Combat Vehicles for the Ground Forces, by Maj, Gen. of En
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| 1963-01-23.pdf | 944.23 KB |
III-045 “The Study of Military Science in Large Units and Units”, by Colonel V. Zemakov and Lieutena
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| 1961-01-25.pdf | 573.25 KB |
III-17 New Developments in Operational Art and Tactics by Lieutenant General V. Baskakov, special co
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| 1962-01-31-B.pdf | 1.52 MB |
III-19 The Nature of Modern Armed Combat and the Role and Place in it of the Various Branches of the
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| 1961-09-19.pdf | 1.22 MB |
III-20 Nuclear/Missile Armament and Some Principles of Military Doctrine,” by Maj. Gen. of the Engin
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| 1961-12-27c.pdf | 1.95 MB |
III-22 Support of the Strategic Concentration and Deployment of the Armed Forces in Respect to Trans
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| 1962-04-20-A.pdf | 1.74 MB |
III-23 The Most Urgent Problems of Training Command Personnel and of Increasing the Combat Readiness
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| 1961-12-27a.pdf | 741.44 KB |
III-24 On Regrouping a Combined-Arms Army from the Depth of the Country in the Initial Period of a W
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| 1962-06-13.pdf | 599.79 KB |
III-25 The Fundamentals of Antimissile Defense by Col. Gen. of Aviation I. Podgornyy and Colonels V.
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| 1961-08-24c.pdf | 1.04 MB |
III-31 The Missions of the Navy and Methods of Carrying Them Out by Adm. V. Platonov, special collec
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| 1961-09-05.pdf | 967.36 KB |
III-34 The Nature of Modern Warfare by Col. Gen. A. Kh. Babadzhanyan, special collection Military Th
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| 1962-01-18.pdf | 541.36 KB |
III-41 On Military-Scientific Work in the Ground Forces, by Col. V. Zemskov, special collection Mili
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| 1963-01-09.pdf | 1.39 MB |
Increasing Strain in Albanian Relations with Moscow and the European Satellites, CIA/DI/FBIS Radio P
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| 1961-05-05.pdf | 1.03 MB |