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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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VII-122 Official Polish Report on the Organization, Operations, Equipment, and Strategic and Tactica
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 1967-12-19.pdf | 2.83 MB |
VII-123 Organization for the Detection, Reconnaissance and Engagement of Air Targets at Low Altitude
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| 1968-12-06.pdf | 1.02 MB |
VII-126 Airlift and Auxiliary Air Support for Soviet Military Forces, CIA/DI/OSR, Intelligence Repor
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| 1969-11-01.pdf | 1.52 MB |
VII-130 The Overcoming of Enemy Air Defenses by Military-Transport Aircraft, by Lt. Gen. of Aviation
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| 1973-07-06.pdf | 739.87 KB |
VII-133 The Employment of Long-Range Aviation in a Non-Nuclear Period of a Front Operation by Col. I
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| 1973-08-31.pdf | 638.4 KB |
VII-135 “The Rebasing of Aviation Large Units and Units of Front Aviation from the Interior of the C
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| 1973-10-01.pdf | 790.35 KB |
VII-137 The Defeat of Enemy Aviation Groupings in a Theater of Military Operations during a Non-Nucl
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| 1973-10-12.pdf | 1010.42 KB |
VII-141 The Struggle for Air Supremacy in Modern Offensive Operations, by Maj. Gen. G. Pshenyanik, d
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| 1973-12-04.pdf | 862.79 KB |
VII-143 The Employment of Long-range Aviation in Support of Ground Forces by Lt. Gen. of Aviation S.
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| 1974-07-31.pdf | 345.14 KB |
VII-146 The Air Forces in Operations with the Employment of Conventional Means of Destruction by Mar
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| 1976-02-17.pdf | 1.32 MB |
VII-147 “Warsaw Pact Doctrine on the Operation of an Air Army,” CIA/DO Intelligence Information Spec
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| 1976-04-21.pdf | 557.24 KB |
VII-152 Negotiation of Enemy Air Defense by Aviation in a Theater of Military Operations by Maj. Gen
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| 1978-11-30.pdf | 740.24 KB |
VII-153 “[USSR] General Staff Academy Lesson No. 20a: The Conduct of the Air Engagement and Delivery
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| 1980-07-31.pdf | 461.55 KB |
VII-165 “The Principal Ways of Improving the Quality of Military Communications,” by Maj. Gen. of En
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| 1974-02-01.pdf | 1.73 MB |
VII-166 “Reports and Schedules Presented at Ninth Meeting of Warsaw Pact Military Council in Prague,
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| 1974-02-15.pdf | 3.21 MB |
VII-170 Proposed Changes in the Wartime Command System of the Polish Armed Forces (1975-1990), CIA/D
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| 1975-10-24.pdf | 2.48 MB |
VII-182 “The Warsaw Pact Unification and Standardization Program: Implications for the Ground Forces
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| 1978-05-31a.pdf | 1.22 MB |
VII-183 Letter from the Warsaw Pact Commander-in-Chief to Defense Ministers on Drafting a Wartime St
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| 1979-07-18.pdf | 341.62 KB |