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-62 Opinions on Soviet-Polish Relations Held by Soviet Military Officers with Service in Poland, CI
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I-69 Make-Up of a Motorized Rifle Division of the Soviet Army, CIA/DP Information Report, 17 March 1
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I-73 Soviet Propaganda on the Nature of the Nuclear War Threat, CIA/DI/FBIS Radio Propaganda Report,
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I-75 The Tie that Binds—Soviet Intrabloc Relations Feb 1956 to Dec 1957, CIA/DI/OCI Soviet Staff Stu
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I-79 Soviet Elite Statements on Troop Withdrawal from Europe, CIA/DI/FBIS Radio Propaganda Report, 6
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I-84 On the Problem of the Missions and Substance of Fire Planning and Preparation for Firing by Hea
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II-024 “Soviet Efforts to Determine Western Planning on the Berlin Situation,” CIA/DP Clandestine Re
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II-030 “Preliminary CIA/OCI Analysis of East German Restriction on Travel to West Berlin,” CIA/DI/OC
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II-034 “Polish Views on Soviet Stand with regard to Berlin and German Issues,” CIA/ DP Information R
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II-036 “Some Thoughts on the Development of the Soviet Army Tank Troops,” by Marshal of the Soviet U
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II-036 “View of Soviet Officials on Soviet Policy Regarding Berlin,” CIA/DP Clandestine Report Speci
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II-12 Soviet Policy on Berlin and Germany, CIA/DI/OCI Current Intelligence Weekly Summary, 11 May 19
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II-13 Soviet ICBM Program, CIA/ DP Clandestine Report Special Collection, 16 May 1961 (DOI, early Ma
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