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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Chuguyev Army Barracks SE, Chuguyev, Kharkov Oblast USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretation Repor
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Chuguyev Army Barracks West, Chuguyev, Kharkov Oblast, USSR, Kiev, MD, Photographic Interpretation R
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Chuguyev Barracks North, Chuguyev, Kharkov Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretation Report
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Chuguyev Training Area Southeast, Chuguyev, Kharkov Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretati
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CIA/CIS/History Staff, Center for Study of Intelligence, Cold War Records: CORONA: America’s First S
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CIA/CSI/ History Staff Monograph, The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U
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Combat Actions of a Tank Army Separated from Other Front Forces by Maj. Gen. of Tank Troops G. Zaviz
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Concept of the Combined Operational-Tactical Exercise of the Warsaw Pact Forces Shield-76, a top sec
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Concerning Experiences and Conclusions from the “Narew” Maneuver, CIA/DP Intelligence Information Sp
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Conclusions and Experiences from the “Jesien” (Autumn) Integrated Maneuvers, CIA/DO, Intelligence In
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Construction of Warsaw Pact Command Posts; Status of Polish Mobile Command Posts, CIA/DO Intelligenc
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Contribution to NIE 11-14-64 Capabilities of Soviet General-Purpose Forces 1964-70, CIA/DI/ORR, 6 Oc
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Contribution to NIE 11-14-69, Soviet and East European General Purpose Forces, Part II, Ground and A
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Correction to “Dissolution of Soviet Military Advisory Groups in the Satellites,” CIA/DP Information
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Critique of a Front’s Two-Stage Operational-Rear Exercise Conducted in July 1961, by Commander in Ch
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Critique of Exercise Tarcza (Shield)-79, CIA/DO Intelligence Information Special Report, 18 June 198
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Critique of Exercise “Shield-76,” by the Polish Minister of National Defense, CIA/DO, Intelligence I
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