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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Ostrogozhsk Army Barracks, Ostrogozhsk, Voronezhsk Oblast, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretat
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Ostroshitskiy Gorodok Barracks Area, Ostroshitskiy Gorodok, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interp
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Pabrade Army Barracks, Pabrade, Lithuania, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC
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Pabrade Army Training Area Northeast, Pabrade, Lithuania, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretati
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Pages from the 14 July 1961 calendars of DCI Allen Dulles, his secretary, and from President Kennedy
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Palanga Army Training Area Nemirseta, Palanga, Lithuania, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretati
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Paldiski Army Barracks Klooga West, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Intelligence Report, CIA/DI Imager
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Panevezys Munitions Factor and Storage, Panevezys, Lithuania, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpre
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Papers of John F. Kennedy, Presidential Paper, President’s Office Files, Presidential Recordings Tra
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Paplaka Army Camp, Paplaka, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, March
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Parnu Army Barracks, Parnu, Estonia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, Marc
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Party and Political Work in the Hungarian People’s Army, CIA/DO Intelligence Information Special Rep
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Party-Political Organs of the PPR Armed Forces, CIA/DO Intelligence Information Special Report, 20 N
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Pauliovo Storage Area, Paulinovo, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, May
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Peacetime Posture of Warsaw Pact Ground Force Divisions Facing the NATO Central Region, CIA/DI/OSR I
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Pechory Training Area Northeast Pechory, Estonia, USSR, Baltic, MD, Photographic Interpretation Repo
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Petroleum Storage Area, Brest, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, June 1
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Piryatin Army Barracks, Piryatin, Poltavakaya Oblast, USSR, Kiev, MD, Photographic Interpretation Re
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