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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Gordno Army Barracks East Grodno, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, Jul
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Gordno Army Barracks North, Grodno, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, J
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Gorky Army Barracks Southeast and Gorkiy Army Depot Southeast, Gorkiy, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic
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Gorodok Depot Prudok, Gorodok, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, July 1
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Grodno Ammunition Depot Kelbasin SW, Grodno, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report
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Grodno Army Barracks and Depot Neman River South, Grodno, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpre
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Grodno Army Barracks Kelbasin, Grodno, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC
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Grodno Army Barracks Southeast, Grodno, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPI
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Ground Force Installations in the Vicinity of Tallinn, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Intelligence Re
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Guide on the Organization and Conduct of Combined Exercises in the Warsaw Pact Forces, approved 11 N
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Gusev Army Barracks North Baltic MD, USSR, Photographic Intelligence Report, CIE/DI Imagery Analysis
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Gusev Army Barracks North, Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation R
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Gusev Army Barracks Rominte River south, Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic In
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Gusev Army Training Area, Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Re
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Gusev Military Barracks Northeast, Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpre
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Gusev Training Area Southwest, Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretati
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Gvardeysk Army Barracks Northeast, Gvardeysk, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Inte
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Haapsalu Army Barracks East, Haapsalu, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretat
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Hardened Control Post Installations, CIA/DO Intelligence Information Special Report, November 1979 (
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