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.
Documents in this Collection
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Soviet Offensive Chemical Warfare Capabilities: A Preliminary Reassessment, CIA/DI/OSR Working Paper
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1970-06-01.pdf | 3.4 MB |
Soviet Planning for Front Nuclear Operations in Central Europe, CIA/DI/SOVA Intelligence Assessment,
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1983-06-01.pdf | 1.94 MB |
Soviet Plans for Warsaw Pact Theater Commands Opposite NATO, CIA/NFAC/OSR Intelligence Assessment, A
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1979-04-01.pdf | 823.53 KB |
Soviet Propaganda on the German Question from the 1958 Berlin Crisis to Date, CIA/DI/FBIS Radio Prop
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1960-04-22.pdf | 6.89 MB |
Soviet Strategic Doctrine for the Start of War, CIA/DI/OCI Soviet Staff Study, Caesar XVI-62, 3 July
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1962-07-03.pdf | 2.94 MB |
Soviet Tactical Air Forces: New Capabilities and Roles for the 1970s, CIA/DI/OSR Intelligence Memora
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1969-01-01.pdf | 768.46 KB |
Soviet Tactics in the Berlin Crisis, Special National Intelligence Estimate 11-10-61, 24 August 1961
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1961-08-24a.pdf | 316.58 KB |
Special Annex to Capabilities of Soviet General Purpose Forces, 1964-1970, NIE 11-14-64, 10 December
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1964-12-10b.pdf | 379.17 KB |
Special Assistant Secretary of State for Research and Intelligence, W. Park Armstrong Jr. to Under S
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1954-04-09.pdf | 49.99 KB |
Stanislav Army Barracks South, Stanislav, USSR, Carpathian MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, N
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1964-07-01d.pdf | 420.38 KB |
Staryye Dorogi Army Barracks, Staryye Dorogi, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Repor
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1964-06-02h.pdf | 320.75 KB |
Status of CIA/DIA Study on Soviet Forces, Memorandum for DDI from Chief, Military-Economic Division,
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1963-06-21.pdf | 98.86 KB |