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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Warsaw Pact Buildup Capabilities, A Review of Work in Progress and Analysis to Date, CIA/DI/OSR, Spe
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Warsaw Pact Commentary on NATO Concepts for War in Central Europe, CIA/NFAC/OSR Intelligence Assessm
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Warsaw Pact Concepts and Capabilities for Going to War in Europe: Implications for NATO Warning of W
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Warsaw Pact Exercise ‘Center,’ Far Eastern Theater of Operations, Installation “Albatross,” CIA/DO I
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Warsaw Pact Forces for Operations against NATO, CIA/DIA, Coordinated Paper 2, National Security Stud
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Warsaw Pact Ground Forces Facing NATO, CIA/DI/OSR Intelligence Report, September 1969. This is the f
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Warsaw Pact Mobilization and Reinforcement, National Security Council Interagency Team on Mobilizati
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Warsaw Pact Tactical Forces: Capabilities and Readiness for Nuclear War, CIA/DI/SOVA Research Paper,
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