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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Slutsk Army Barracks South, Slutsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, J
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Slutsk Army Barracks Southwest, Slutsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPI
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Slutsk Ordnance Depot, Slutsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, June 1
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Smolensk Army Barracks Northwest, Smolensk, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPI
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Some Observations on the Size and Combat Readiness of Soviet Ground Forces, CIA/DI/Senior Research S
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Sovetsk Army Barracks Neman Northwest, Neman, Lithuania, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretatio
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Sovetsk Army Barracks Taurage Southwest, Taurage, Lithuania, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpret
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Sovetsk Army Barracks Taurage, Taurage, Lithuania, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Repo
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Sovetsk Army Barracks West, Sovetsk, Latvia, SSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPI
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Soviet 1962 Field Service Regulations of the Armed Forces of the Union of SSR’s (Division-Regiment),
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Soviet Amphibious Forces: Tasks and Capabilities in General War and Peacetime, CIA/DI/OSR Research P
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Soviet Capabilities to Reinforce in Central Europe, Capabilities of Soviet General Purpose Forces, C
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Soviet Capabilities to Reinforce in Central Europe: Equipment Levels in Soviet Combat-Ready Division
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