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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V-211 Belaya Tserkov Army Barracks Artillery, Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photograph
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V-219 Barracks Area, Glukhov, Sumskaya Oblast, USSR, Kiev, MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, N
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V-220 Artemovsk Army Barracks Central, Artemovsk, Stalinskaya Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic In
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V-222 Ammunition Storage Area, Rossoshki, Cherkasskaya Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpret
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V-223 Balakleya Ammunition Depot NE and Balakleya Army Barracks NE, Kharkov Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, P
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V-232 Ammunition Storage Area, Dnepropetrovsk, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NP
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V-238 Bakhmach Petroleum Storage, Bakhmach, Chernigoskaya Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interp
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V-243 Barracks Area, Chuguyev, Kharkov Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NP
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V-244 Barracks Area, Utkovka, Kharkov Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPI
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V-253 Belaya Tserkov Army Barracks NW and Associated Storage Area, Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast, USSR
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V-254 Ammunition Storage Area Chernigov, Chernigov Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Interpretatio
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V-267 Barracks and Bivouac Area, Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic Inte
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V-270 Belaya Tserkov Army Barracks Ross, Belaya Tserkov, Kiev Oblast, USSR, Kiev MD, Photographic In
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V-280 Osipovichi Army Barracks Tsel, Lapichi, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Repor
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V-284 Vitebsk Army Barracks Southwest, Vitebsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Rep
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V-286 Baranovichi Army Barracks SW, Baranovichi, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Re
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V-289 Baranovichi Petroleum Storage, Air Force Reserve, Baranovichi, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photograph
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