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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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Probable Military Barracks, Riga, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC,
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 1965-02-01m.pdf | 428.72 KB |
Probable Military Depot, Fastov, Kiev Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPI
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| 1964-12-02n.pdf | 483.83 KB |
Probable Military Hospital and Associated Quarters Area, Minsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic In
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| 1964-07-03m.pdf | 462.43 KB |
Probable Military Vehicle Park, Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretat
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| 1965-04-01e.pdf | 299.93 KB |
Probable Ordnance Depot, Nezhin Chernigovskaya Oblast, Kiev MD, USSR, Photographic Interpretation Re
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| 1964-12-01n.pdf | 447.02 KB |
Probable SS-1 SCUD Missile Unit, Bayram Ali Army Barracks SE Al-1, USSR, Photographic Intelligence R
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| 1966-06-01.pdf | 752.2 KB |
Pruzhany Army Barracks Slobodka Pruzhany, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, N
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| 1964-07-02c.pdf | 409.71 KB |
Pskov Army Barracks Cherekha, USSR, Baltic MD, Imagery Analysis Division, CIA/DI Imagery Analysis Di
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| 1965-08-01b.pdf | 516.74 KB |
Public Warning Indicators of the Soviet Decision to Invade Czechoslovakia a Retrospective Review, CI
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| 1980-11-04.pdf | 3.91 MB |
Ratification of the Wartime Statute on the Warsaw Pact Armed Forces and Appointment of Brezhnev as S
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| 1980-07-25a.pdf | 2.11 MB |
Readiness of Soviet Forces in Central Europe: Implications for a Rapid Transition to War, CIA/DI/SOV
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| 1987-09-01.pdf | 3.06 MB |
Reappraisal of Soviet Ground Forces, Memorandum for the Director of Central Intelligence from Rear A
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| 1963-05-21a.pdf | 58.69 KB |
Regarding CIA/DIA Panel on Soviet Ground Forces, CIA/DI, Memorandum from Acting DDI to DCI, 3 August
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| 1965-08-03.pdf | 211.72 KB |
Report of the Chief of Staff of the Combined Armed Forces on the Val-74 Command-Staff Exercise for A
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| 1976-01-09a.pdf | 1.98 MB |
Report on Visit of Polish Armed Forces General Staff Delegation to the USSR Armed Forces General Sta
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| 1980-10-08.pdf | 1.64 MB |
Reservist Training for Soviet Ground Forces: Patterns and Implications, CIA/DI/OSR Research Paper, J
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| 1976-01-01.pdf | 1.34 MB |