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-484 Balki Ammunition Depot, North-Northwest, Volki, Gorkovskaya Oblast, USSR, Moscow MD, Photograp

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V-6 The Forms and Methods of Operational Training According to the Experience of Exercises by Lieute

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1962-12-07.pdf	1.55 MB

V-65 Ammunition Supply Installation, Slavuta, USSR, Carpathian MD, Photographic Interpretation Repor

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V-72 Chernovtsy Army Barracks, Roshtshinskaya, Chernovtsy, USSR, Carpathian MD, Photographic Interpr

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V-77 POL Facilities, Brody, USSR, Carpathian MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC, August 19

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V-81 Mukachevo Army Barracks, Southwest Mukachevo, USSR, Carpathian MD, Photographic Interpretation

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1964-09-01a.pdf	467.45 KB

V-89 Dobele Army Barracks Northwest, Dobele, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Re

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V-89 Dobele Army Barracks, Dobele, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Report, NPIC

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1964-11-01d.pdf	526.36 KB

V-91 Ammunition and Storage Area, Daugavpils, Latvia Oblast, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpret

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V-93 Daugavpils Army Barracks, Daugavpils, Latvia, USSR, Baltic MD, Photographic Interpretation Repo

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1964-11-01g.pdf	449.82 KB

Vehicle and Equipment Identification in Selected Motorized Rifle Division Installations USSR, Photog

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1966-05-01b.pdf	485.86 KB

Vetrino Army Barracks, Polotsk Southwest, Vetrino, USSR, Belorussia MD, Photographic Interpretation

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1964-05-01m.pdf	215.4 KB

VI-2 The Most Urgent Problems of Training Command Personnel and of Increasing the Combat Readiness o

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1961-12-27b.pdf	705.34 KB

VI-33 The I Aleksandrov Article in Pravda: Inception of a New Stage in Pressure on Czechoslovakia, C

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1968-07-18.pdf	743.92 KB

VII Warsaw Pact Fronts within the Western Theaters of Military Operations, CIA/DO, 1 January 1982

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1982-04-13.pdf	233.56 KB

VII- 44 “Warsaw Pact Command Staff Exercise West -77,” CIA/DO Intelligence Information Special Repor

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1977-09-21a.pdf	298.49 KB

VII-006 “Principles of a Modern Offensive Operation of a Front,” by Soviet Col. Gen. Glebov, CIA/DP

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1970-10-01.pdf	1.68 MB

VII-019 “Planning the Initial Front Offensive Operation,” by Maj. Gen. N.I. Reut, Military Thought,

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1973-02-01.pdf	1 MB

VII-020 “Sensitive New Information on Soviet War Planning and Warsaw Pact Force Strengths,” CIA/DI/O

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1973-08-10.pdf	442.47 KB

VII-021 “The Transition from Conventional to Nuclear Warfare during an Offensive,” by Col. A. Postov

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1973-06-15.pdf	1.16 MB

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