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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Training Area, Marijampole, Lithuania, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, Ma
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Tropospheric Communications Lines in Poland, CIA/DO Intelligence Information Special Report, 19 Apri
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Tula Ammunition Depot Khomyakovo Southwest, Tula, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretation Repor
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Tula Training Area Kostrovo, Tula, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, July 1
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Urechye Army Barracks Southeast and POL Storage, Urechye, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpre
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USSR General Staff Rear Services Manual: Rear Services Support of the Ground Forces, CIA/DO Intellig
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USSR-Poland: A New Sense of Urgency and the Potential Impact on Soviet Plans, CIA/DCI/Strategic Warn
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Uzhgorod Ammunition Depot Dravce, USSR Carpathian MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, Sept
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Uzhgorod Army Barracks AL-1 Carpathian MD, Photographic Intelligence Report, CIA/DI Imagery Analysis
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Uzhgorod Army Barracks AL-2, USSR, Carpathian MD, Photographic Intelligence Report, CIA/DI Imagery A
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Uzhgorod Army Barracks North Uzhgorod, USSR Carpathian MD, Photographic Interpretations Report, NPIC
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Uzhgorod Army Barracks Southeast, Uzhgorod, USSR, Carpathian MD, October 1964, Photographic Interpre
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V-1 The Deployment and Forward Movement of a Combined-Arms Army of a Border Military District in the
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V-105 Bagrationovsk Army Barracks Dolgorukovo SE, Dolgorukovo, Kaliningrad, Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD,
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V-106 Bagrationovsk Ordnance Depot Dolgorukovo 214B, Dolgorukovo, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Baltic M
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V-116 Baltiysk Army Barracks Primorsk, Kaliningrad, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpreta
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