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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Military Training Area, Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretatio
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Military Training Area, Mukachevo, USSR, Carpathian MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, Fe
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Military Training Area, Porechye, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, Jul
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Military Training Area, Slavuta, USSR, Carpathian MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, Sept
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Military Training Area, Slavyanoserbsk, Lugansk Oblast USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretation Re
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Military Training Area, Uzhgorod, USSR, Carpathian MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, Mar
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Minsk Ammunition Depot Southeast, Minsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NP
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Minsk Army Barracks Southwest, Minsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC,
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Minsk Army Barracks Uruchye, Minsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, J
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Minsk Army Barracks, Minsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, July 1964
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Minsk Army Barracks, Stepyanka Southeast, Minsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Re
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Minsk Army Supply Depot and Barracks, Minsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report
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Minsk Army Training Area Kalinina, Minsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, N
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Minsk Barracks and Artillery OCS, Minsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NP
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Minsk Petroleum Storage Mikhanovichi Minsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report,
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Mobilization Alert Exercise of the Polish 13th Mechanized Regiment Criticized for Poor and Inadequat
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