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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I-085 “The Use of Artillery in Support of an Army Counterattack,” Information Collection of the Arti
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I-09 Soviet Official’s Opinions on Soviet Policy in Western Europe, CIA/DP Information Report, 11 No
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I-1 Proposed Training for Soviet Army Officer Corps to Include Information on the Employment of Atom
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I-10 New Officer Promotion Policy for the Soviet Army, CIA/DP Information Report, 9 December 1954 (D
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I-13 East German Officers in Soviet Military Academies, CIA/DP Information Report, 31 January 1955 (
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I-14 Soviet Army Maneuvers under Marshal Zhukov, Including the Use of Atomic Weapons, CIA/DP Informa
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I-16 Comment on Possible Soviet Bloc Military Appointments, CIA/DI Current Intelligence Bulletin (CI
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I-18 Soviet Capabilities and Probable Soviet Courses of Action through 1960, NIE 11-3-55, 17 May 195
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I-19 Marshal Konev’s Role as Party Spokesman, CIA/DI Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, 19 May 195
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I-21 Field Service Regulations of the Soviet Army (Regiment-Battalion), CIA/DP Information Report, 3
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I-22 Soviet Bloc’s Facsimile NATO, DCI Allen Dulles’ Briefing for the National Security Council, att
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I-23 General Shatilov on Surprise Atomic Attack: a Double-Edged Weapon, CIA/FBIS Radio Propaganda Re
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I-24 Politics and Doctrinal Differences among the Soviet Military Elite, CIA/FBIS Radio Propaganda R
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I-25 Status of Kremlin Control of the Satellites, CIA/DI Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, 28 Jul
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I-26 Possible Incorporation of Soviet Troops in Hungary and Rumania into the Carpathian Military Dis
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