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CIA Assessments of the Soviet Union: The Record Versus the Charges

An Intelligence Monograph

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By: Douglas J. MacEachin

“Charges that CIA did not see and report the economic decline, societal deterioration, and political destabilization that ultimately resulted in the breakup of the Soviet Union simply are contradicted by the record.”

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