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-256 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 17, Organizing Communications in a Front Offensive Operati

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1980-12-19.pdf	2.28 MB

VII-258 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 18: Development and Critique of the Plan of the Organizati

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1981-01-30.pdf	1.24 MB

VII-259 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 23: Relocation of Control Posts in the Course of a Front O

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1981-02-27.pdf	977.44 KB

VII-260 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 22a: Developing an Offensive Operation with the Commitment

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1980-10-31a.pdf	1.18 MB

VII-261 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 21a: The Breakthrough by Front Troops of the Prepared Enem

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1981-03-06.pdf	1.96 MB

VII-262 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 24b: Control of Rocket Troops and Artillery during Prepara

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1981-03-20.pdf	1.05 MB

VII-263 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 25a: Restoring the Combat Effectiveness of the Troops, Eli

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1981-04-24a.pdf	1.3 MB

VII-264 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 28: Development of the Offensive on the Opposite Bank of a

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1981-04-24b.pdf	1.1 MB

VII-265 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 16: Preparing the Plan and Organizing Cooperation of the F

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1981-05-01.pdf	1.76 MB

VII-266 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 27b: Engineer Support for the Front Troops’ Assault Crossi

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1981-05-15.pdf	397.14 KB

VII-267 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 25b: Refining the Decision on the Development of the Offen

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1981-05-22.pdf	831.9 KB

VII-268 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 27a: Making the Decision for the Assault Crossing of a Wid

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1981-06-12.pdf	1.59 MB

VII-269 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 21b: Organizing the Combat Actions of the Front Rocket Tro

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1981-07-31.pdf	1.14 MB

VII-270 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 22a, Supplementary Material: Developing an Offensive Opera

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1981-08-05.pdf	742.29 KB

VII-271 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 21: The Breakthrough by Front Troops of the Prepared Enemy

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1981-08-14.pdf	906.33 KB

VII-272 “General Staff Academy Lesson No. 29: The Preparation and Critique of the Operational Summar

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1981-08-21.pdf	1001.68 KB

VII-273 “General Staff Academy Supplementary Material for Lesson No. 1, Report of the Chief of the O

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1982-02-05.pdf	2.43 MB

VII-274 “General Staff Academy Supplementary Material for Lesson No. 1s: Reports by the Commander an

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1982-02-08.pdf	1.1 MB

VII-278 Table of Contents of Five Issues from a Secret Soviet publication, Information Collection of

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1974-06-06.pdf	1.12 MB

VII-279 Summaries of Warsaw Pact Exercises of 1972, a Warsaw Pact journal article from a secret Sovi

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1974-06-07.pdf	1.35 MB

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