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-319 “Polish Comments on Marshal Kulikov's Critique of Exercise “Zachod (West)-77,” a memora

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1979-05-07.pdf	1.3 MB

VII-321 “Certain Matters pertaining to the Organization and Conduct of Combined Operational Command-

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1979-06-21.pdf	1.01 MB

VII-323 Tranzit-77 Operational-Rear Services Command-Staff Exercise , by Lt Gen. V. Semennikov and C

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1979-08-17.pdf	541.83 KB

VII-324 (1) Relationship of Military Exercises to War Plans; (2) Wiosna-69 Exercise, CIA/DO Intellig

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1982-07-30c.pdf	272.95 KB

VII-325 “Polish War Plans,” CIA/DO Intelligence Information Special Report, 30 July 1982 (DOI, late

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1982-07-30d.pdf	197.44 KB

VII-327 Enhancing the Role of Military Journals in Working Out Questions of Military Theory by Maj.

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1983-10-28.pdf	584.31 KB

VII-328 Polish Army Mobilization Periods and Executors, published in 1973 by the Polish Ministry of

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1974-03-11.pdf	2.04 MB

VII-328 “Planning, Preparations, Operation and Evaluation of Warsaw Pact Exercises,” CIA/DO Intellig

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1981-01-23.pdf	947.77 KB

VII-328 “Planning, Preparations, Operation and Evaluation of Warsaw Pact Exercises,” CIA/DO Intellig

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1981-01-01.pdf	5.3 MB

VII-34 Polish Peacetime and Wartime Troop Strengths, Deployment of Polish Forces in Wartime, CIA/DO,

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1976-05-04.pdf	232.86 KB

VII-36 Modern Requirements for the Field Service Regulations by Col. Gen. of Tank Troops J. Nikitin,

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1976-09-08.pdf	964.16 KB

VII-45 Critique of the Operational-Strategic Command-Staff Exercise Zapad-77,” CIA/DO Intelligence I

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1978-10-13A.pdf	7.37 MB

VII-47 Letter of Marshal Kulikov to Polish Ministry of National Defense Commenting on Exercise Zapad

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1978-01-23.pdf	584.82 KB

VII-55 Indications and Warning of Soviet Intentions to Use Chemical Weapons during a NATO-Warsaw Pac

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1978-08-01.pdf	1.01 MB

VII-60 Warsaw Pact Perceptions of NATO Strengths and Weaknesses, CIA/DO Intelligence Information Rep

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1982-08-19.pdf	323.72 KB

VII-7 Warsaw Pact Lectures on Strategy for War in Europe, CIA/DP Intelligence Information Report, 23

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1970-12-23.pdf	4.79 MB

VII-78 Determining Norms for the Stockpiling and Expenditure of Artillery Ammunition by Col. Gen. of

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1974-01-02.pdf	439.02 KB

VII-80 The Development of the Means of Armed Combat in the Postwar Period, by Marshal of the Soviet

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1974-02-26.pdf	1.53 MB

VII-9 Blue Streak Intelligence on Warsaw Pact Exercises, Plans, Organization and Concepts of War in

Document Number: 5166d4f999326091c6a60892

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1971-04-01.pdf	350.51 KB

VII-98 NATO-Warsaw Pact Force Ratios in Central Europe, CIA/DI/OSR Blind Memorandum, 21 September 19

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1977-09-21b.pdf	157.98 KB

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