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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VII-028a “Regarding the Intelligence Community Staff/Product Review Division’s ‘Review of OSR Intell
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VII-030 “Certain Problems of the Planning and Conduct of Offensive Operations of Fronts,” by Col. Ge
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VII-040 “Call Signs of Polish and Warsaw Pact Military Units for Exercise ‘Zapad [West]-77,’” CIA/DO
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VII-041 “Situation Report on Exercise ‘Zapad [West]-77’ on 10 June 1977 (Situation for the Operation
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VII-042 “Background Scenario for Exercise ‘Zapad [West]-77’,’’ CIA/DO Intelligence Information Speci
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VII-043 “Situation Report on Exercise ‘Zapad [West]-77’,” CIA/DO Intelligence Information Special Re
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VII-048 “Polish Response to Criticism of Polish Participation in Exercise ‘Fala [Wave]-77’,” by Sovi
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VII-052 “Soviet Concepts for Employment of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict with NATO—Evidence from War
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VII-054 “With Nuclear Weapons or Without Them?” by Col. Imre Gabor, Military Thought, secret issue N
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VII-076 “The Tasks of Military Science at Its Present Stage and the Main Directions of Work of the J
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VII-079 “Warsaw Pact Views on the Inclusion of Nuclear Weapons in MBFR,” CIA/DI/OSR Blind Memorandum
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VII-082 “Another View on the Determination of Artillery Ammunition Norms”,” by Col. G. Yefimov, Mili
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VII-092 “Soviet Conventional Forces and the Military Balance in Europe,” CIA/DI/OSR Portion of Gover
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VII-101 “Principles of the Organization and Conduct of Operational Reconnaissance in a Front Offensi
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VII-103 “Warsaw Pact Training Exercise: Situation Report 4 April 1978,” CIA/DO Intelligence Informat
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