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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Riga Ammunition Depot Ropazi, Riga, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPI
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Riga Army Barracks Bolderaya, Riga, Latvia, U SSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NP
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Riga Army Barracks Bukulti, Riga, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC,
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Riga Army Barracks East, Riga, Latvia Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, N
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Riga Army Barracks Nordeki, Riga, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC,
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Riga Army Barracks Northeast Riga, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC
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Riga Army Barracks Yugla, Riga, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, F
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Riga Army Barracks, Riga Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, February
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Riga Army Training Area Ropazi North, Riga, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Rep
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Riga Arsenal, Riga, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, February 1965
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Ryazan Army Barracks Southwest, Ryazan, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, J
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Ryazhsk Ammunition Depot Northwest, Ryazhsk, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NP
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Rzhev Ammunition Depot Monchalovo, Rzhev, Kalininskaya Oblast, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpr
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Rzhev Ordinance Depot and Barracks, Rzhev, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpr
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Schedule of National and Warsaw Pact Military Exercises for Polish Forces for 1974, CIA/DO Intellige
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