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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Possible Tactical Surface-to-Surface Missile Support Facility, Uzhgorod, USSR, Photographic Intellig
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Postavy Army Barracks [Al-2], Postavy, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC
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Pouch List of clandestine reports sent to Newport, RI, for President Kennedy at the summer White Hou
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Priekule Army Barracks Northeast, Priekule, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Rep
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Prienai Army Barracks, Prienai, Kaliningrad, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NP
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Priluki Ammunition Depot Ichnya SSW, Priluki, Chernigovsk Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interp
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Probable Ammunition storage Area, Grodno, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, N
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Probable Ammunition Storage Area, Lubny, Poltavsk Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretation
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Probable Barrack Area, Kharkov Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, Nove
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Probable Barrack Area, Volozhin, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, July
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Probable Barracks Area, (54-47N 032-01) Smolensk, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretation Repor
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Probable Developments in the European Satellites through Mid-1956, National Intelligence Estimate (N
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Probable Explosives Storage Area, Kirzhach, Vladimirskaya Oblast, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Inte
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Probable Explosives Storage Area, Kozelsk, Kaluzhskaya Oblast, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpr
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Probable Explosives Storage Area, Volchansk, Kharkov, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretation Rep
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Probable Explosives Storage Area, Volga, Yaroslask Oblast, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretat
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Probable Explosives Storage Area, Voronezh, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPI
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