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-369 Training Areas, Osipovichi, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, Jul
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V-376 Ammunition Storage Area, Rechitsa, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NP
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V-377 Slutsk Army Barracks Central, Slutsk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report,
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V-384 Baranovichi Barracks and Maneuver Area Lesnaya, Baranovichi, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic
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V-385 Bobr Ammunition Depot South Pug, Bobr, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report
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V-389 Selected Military Installation, Bobruysk, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Rep
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V-39 Keila Army Barracks Railroad Junction, Keila, Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic
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V-39 Keila Army Barracks Railroad Junction, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Intelligence Report, Image
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V-391 Brest Army Barracks Central, Brest, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, N
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V-393 Dretun Army Training Area, Dretun, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NP
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V-398 Kobrin Petroleum Storage Area, Korin, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report,
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V-4 The Nature of Modern Armed Combat by General of the Army A. Gorbatov, top secret special collect
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V-401 Lepel Army Barracks and Headquarters, Unidentified Guards Tank Division and Lepel Ammunition S
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V-403 Borisov Army Training Areas, Borisov, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation Report,
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V-420 Barracks Area, Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Yarolslavsk Oblast, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpre
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V-435 Barracks Area, Torzhok, Kalinin Oblast, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, N
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V-450 Barracks Area,(54-46N 032-00E), Smolensk, USSR, Moscow MD, Photographic Interpretation Report,
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V-456 Arsaki Ammunition Depot Nikulskoye No 113, Nikulskoye, Moscow Oblast, USSR, Moscow MD, Photogr
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