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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“Criticism of a Previous Article on Airborne Landings [in Operations during a Nonnuclear Period],” b
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1973-07-20.pdf | 369.14 KB |
“Critique of an Operational War Game on Maps Conducted on the Southwestern Axis,” CIA/DO Intelligenc
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1975-06-13.pdf | 9.61 MB |
“Critique of Exercise ‘Zachod [West]-77’ and ‘Fala [Wave]-77’,” CIA/DO Intelligence Information Spec
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1977-11-08b.pdf | 1.29 MB |
“Determining the Balance of Forces in Ground Forces Large Units in an Operation,” by Maj. Gen. (reti
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1976-08-12a-A.pdf | 843.16 KB |
“Developments redacted,” CIA/DP Memorandum for the Record from John Maury, Chief SR Division, 3 Augu
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1961-08-03.pdf | 179.33 KB |
“Dissolution of Soviet Military Advisory Groups in the Satellites,” CIA/DP Information Report, 22 Oc
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1958-10-22.pdf | 165.01 KB |
“Elements of the Soviet Heavy Tank Division,” CIA/DP Information Report, 21 March 1958 (DOI, late 19
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1958-03-21.pdf | 194.29 KB |
“Essential Facts of the Penkovskiy Case,” from Deputy Director for Plans, Richard Helms, CIA/DP Memo
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1963-05-31.pdf | 742.98 KB |
“Establishment of the Top Secret Special Collection of Articles of the Journal, Military Thought, by
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1961-11-08.pdf | 591.48 KB |
“Excerpts of a Speech regarding the preparations of the Draft Statute on the Warsaw Pact Combined Ar
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1978-09-06.pdf | 507.29 KB |
“Exercise Autumn Sky,” (Poland) secret, Military Thought, issue No. 4, CIA/DO Intelligence Informati
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1968-12-31.pdf | 563.69 KB |
“Exercise ‘Lato 74’—a Nuclear War Scenario,” CIA/DO Intelligence Information Special Report, 20 Octo
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1978-10-20.pdf | 3.87 MB |
“Experiences from the ‘Rajd’ Exercise Conducted by the Warsaw Military District Staff,” Military Tho
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1968-06-18.pdf | 1.26 MB |
“Extent of CPSU Control over Political Indoctrination of the Soviet Armed Forces,” CIA/DP Informatio
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1957-10-16.pdf | 255.79 KB |
“Extract of Khrushchev’s 10 November 1958 Ultimatum on Berlin,” 26 November 1958 Documents on German
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1958-11-26.pdf | 3.65 MB |
“Features of the Organization of the Commitment of an Army into an Engagement under Conditions in wh
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1974-02-04.pdf | 577.21 KB |
“Features of the Preparation and Conduct of Tactical Exercises on Mountain-Forest Terrain,” a Warsaw
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1979-07-13.pdf | 659.61 KB |
“Formation of Tank Armies from Soviet Mechanized Armies in East Germany; Absence of Indications of D
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1957-08-08.pdf | 274.17 KB |